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• You will want to unlock the taskbar if it is already locked.
• Right-click an open part of the taskbar and select Lock the Taskbar,if there is a check next to the entry.
• Click and hold your mouse on any part of the taskbar where there are no icons,such as the system clock,and drag the taskbar to different sides by moving your mouse in the general direction.
• When you have the taskbar where you want it,you may want to readjust your toolbars inside the taskbar, such as the Quick Launch bar.
• Then lock it back up again by right-clicking it and selecting Lock the Taskbar.
  

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Ever notice that when you hover your mouse over a program listing in the Start Menu,a little yellow Help box will pop up on Windows Xp?
This Help feature is called Balloon Help.

If a user does not know what a program does, user can hold the mouse over the program for a second or so and a little message will fade in telling user what it is, if the programmer has set up this feature of the user’s
program.

For other programs that do not have this feature set up in their shortcut, it will just tell the user where the program is located on user’s computer. This feature can be very useful for a beginning computer user.

Sometimes the Pop-up Help can become an annoyance and just blocks your screen. If you do not need this feature,why not disable it?
Follow these steps to get rid of this feature:

• Click the Start Menu and select Run and then type regedit in the box and click OK. 
• Once the Registry Editor is loaded,navigate though HKEY_CURRENT_USER-
  Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Explorer-Advanced 
• Right-click the entry called ShowInfoTip and select Modify
• Set the value equal to 0 to disable this feature,and click OK.
  Close the Registry Editor and log off and back so the feature can be removed.

Logoff and then logon to see the effect…

Are you someone who relies on hotkeys (keyboard shortcuts) quite a bit? Fellow Microsoftie Brandon Paddock has published a cheat sheet of hotkeys that people might find useful with the Windows 7 Beta.