Windows 7 Tips > Changing the Way a Program Starts

A cool new feature of Windows 7 (at least in this blogger’s mind) is a new way of configuring how a program starts.

Click on the Start Button, then left click the program that you want to work with. From the new resulting drop down menu you will see the following choices amongst others:

Pin to Task Bar
Pin to Start Menu

I like to keep my desktop as free of icons as possible, so I like to put my most used programs on the Task Bar.

To ‘Pin’ anything to the Task Bar, you must first make sure that it is ‘unlocked’. To do this, right click the task bar and make sure that the task bar is ‘unlocked’. If it says ‘task bar locked’, then left click it once and it was become unlocked.

By clicking ‘Pin to Task Bar’ the application sends a copy of itself to the Task Bar. Now instead of clicking Start>All programs>Program folder>program you can just single click the icon on the task bar.

If you have any questions about Windows 7, or any technology questions, please feel free to post it here and I will do the best I can to answer it.

A great Friday the 13th!

I attended the ExecuLeaders breakfast #39 this morning at Carlyle on the Green at the Bethpage State Park. Rich Kruse put together another great event. Met some very interesting people at the table that I facilitated at. Monique Zorn from Zorn’s Catering, James Fleming from First New YorkTitle Agency, Harry Jacobs of DJJ Technologies were just a few of the business owners that I spoke with. I look forward to networking with them further to see if we can help each other out with any leads or ideas.

Another smiling face at the breakfast was my friend and salesperson for the NY Islanders, Hank Jaroslawski. He is my main contact for all things Islanders. Helped me to find just the right jerseys for me and my daughter.

After the breakfast, I headed over to Charlie Razenson’s Unique Impressions shop to talk with him about getting some monogrammed shirts for my business and then as always catching up on the Islanders with him. Charlie is very involved with the Islanders and does a lot of work for them, so he is constantly talking with them, attends a ton of events, some as a member of the Islanders Business Club, of which I became a member of a few months ago. He was very gracious in giving me an autographed photo of one of my Islander favorites, Tim Jackman #28. That man gets on the ice and things happened!

Then after that I was back at the office, adding the people I met at the breakfast to my database and getting ready to contact them to set up appointments for next week.

Friday the 13th was a good day for this ‘Guy’. Hope it was for you too!