Customize Desktop (1)

Wouldn't it be nice having to personalize your desktop. The desktop will be designed by you. You can design the desktop to suit your taste and style. Windows made it possible for that to be done. You can customize your desktop by

1. Creating Shortcut of any program you want on the desktop
First left click on the desktop (not on any icon). Then right click. Then point the cursor to NEW and click on shortcut. A wizard would open and lead you through the process of making a shortcut on the desktop.

Short cut
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Start next All programs…………..then left click, without removing your finger, drag the program icon to the desktop.

2. Arranging the desktop icons.
You can arrange the desktop icons by name, size, type and modification.
Name: The desktop icons will be arranged alphabetical order
Size: The desktop icons will be arranged by how many byte the program uses.
Type: The desktop icons will be arrange alphabetical order by the same type i.e. all Microsoft documents would be together.
Modified: : The desktop icons will be arrange by date of modification




Right click on the desktop (not on any icon), then point the mouse cursor on arrange icons, and selecting how you want the desktop icons to be sorted.

Shortcut to Arrange icons
Hold CTRL + D to hide all open windows. Then hit th key with the picture of a notepad. The key is in the middle, under the shift key and left of the windows key.

Shortcut to search for item on desktop
Hold CTRL + D to hide all open windows. Then hold CTRL + M to select desktop. Then hit the letter on the keyboard corresponding to the first letter of the icon you are searching for and hit enter.


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