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Adding the address bar

Adding the address bar

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Adding the address bar

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- [Instructor] The taskbar works like an anchor to the Windows desktop. It provides program shortcuts, buttons from which current programs are controlled, notification icons, and other interesting doodads. One item you can activate on the taskbar that may not seem immediately useful, is the address bar. Providing you up plenty of room for it, right-click on a blank part of the taskbar and choose Toolbars, Address. This is the address bar, which is quite versatile. It's really more like a command line interface, but first things first. You can use the bar to type in a web page address. Immediately, your default web browser opens and shows the address you typed. But this power isn't limited to web pages. Say I want to open my downloads folder. There it is. This trick works with any folder, but eventually you must type a path. Documents backslash. As I type the backslash, I see a list of folder shortcuts. I can choose…

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