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Summary: The "Lock the Taskbar" option should be disabled when configuring the Firefox browser to optimize a computer. Configure a Firefox browser with the tech tips in this free video on computer maintenance from a computer repair professional.
Bill Powers has been working on computers for more than 20 years. He has created DOS, Linux and Windows programs for customers. Powers is currently an IT technician for companies in...read more
"On this segment what we are going to do is we are going to talk a little bit about the differences why I like Firefox over Explorer but first we are going to look at the icons on the Quickstart Menu because Firefox put one down there and we are going to see that we can't see it. You notice that we are doing this work while the antivirus program is just doing its thing in the background so we're still multitasking and if we look around the screen first of all we see that there is an icon for Firefox it is up on the Desktop that is great but there is also one down here if you click this button down here on the Quickstart menu and so it is not doing as much good at being hidden back there so let's see if we can do anything to jail that process right quick and you'll see that we clicked Properties here and we want to click on Properties and there is one that says Lock the Taskbar so we want to click that off and you want to say apply. Now we go down here to the Quickstart and we see that those are the buttons and we say let's just say o'kay and we put a mouse on that area and you'll find the end. When you see the two arrows come out then you can move it. See now what happens there it absolutely moved out. So we want to lock that so we can see all our icons there and we want to lock this so we go to someplace where there is nothing going on where there is nothing going on, you don't want to put it over a program, you want to put it where there is nothing going on, right click and you want to say Properties again and click that. Now what we want to do is lock the Taskbar and then Apply and then say o'kay and there you go. You start the computer and you see all your Quickstart programs are down there and not hiding."
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