1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Folder Options.
2. Click Web style.
   If you want to have more control over the exact settings, click Custom, and then click Single click to open an item.

• To customize the taskbar, right-click the background of the taskbar, point to Toolbars, and then select the toolbar you want to add: an Address bar, a Links bar, a toolbar containing all items on your desktop, or the Quick Launch bar.
• You can also create your own toolbar from any folder. Right-click the background of the taskbar, point to Toolbars, and then click New Toolbar. Select a folder from the list. A toolbar containing all items in that folder will be added to your taskbar.
• You can drag the new toolbar to any location on your desktop.
• You can easily remove a toolbar from the taskbar by right-clicking the taskbar and then clicking the item again to remove the check mark.

To add a button to the quick launch bar

• Drag a program, document, Web page link, or even a shortcut to the Quick Launch bar on the taskbar.

If you don't see the Quick Launch bar on your taskbar, right-click the taskbar, point to Toolbars, and click Quick Launch.

To remove a button from the Quick Launch bar

• Right-click the button you want to remove, and then click Delete.

1. On the Start menu, point to Settings, point to Active Desktop, and then click Customize My Desktop.
2. Make sure the View My Active Desktop as a Web page check box is selected, and then click New. A dialog box appears asking if you want to browse the Active Desktop Gallery.
3. Click Yes, and then browse through the different items available. To add an item to your desktop, click the Add to Active Desktop button on the item's page in the gallery.

1. On the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Display icon.
3. Click the Effects tab.
4. In the Visual effects area, clear the Animate windows, menus, and lists check box to turn these effects off. You can select this box again to turn them back on.

1. Click the Start button, and then point to Programs.
2. To move a program, drag the icon to the place in the list where you want it. You can also move program groups folders by dragging them in the list.

1. On the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Display icon.
3. Click the Effects tab.
4. In the Desktop icons area, select the icon you want to change, and then click Change Icon.
5. Select the icon you want to use, or click Browse to look for icons in a different location.
6. To remove your desktop icons, select the Hide Icons when the desktop is viewed as a Web page check box.

How does it work? If you're surfing the Web and you decide you want to look at a folder on your hard disk, just type the path in the Address bar. Or, if you are looking at files in My Computer and you want to check out a Web page, type the address in the Address bar. Try it!

We've all been there. While surfing the Web, you click a seemingly endless number of links to find a specific page, then you decide you want to go back. So you click the Back button . . . how many times? Five, ten, maybe even twenty times you click that button while you painfully watch and wait for each page to appear in your browser.

Fortunately, Microsoft Windows 98 operating system introduces a new feature that saves you many clicks and even more time. See the small arrow just to the right of the Back button? Click it. You'll see a list of pages you've viewed-then you can just click the one you want. You can also display this list by right-clicking the Back button.

• Type the domain of an address, such as Microsoft and then press CTRL+ENTER. Internet Explorer automatically wraps "http://www....com" around what you typed.
• Even easier, just type the domain of an address, and then press ENTER. Internet Explorer tries to find the site by using the various extensions. If it can't find a site with the domain you typed and the .com extension, it looks for the domain with the .edu extension. If this is not successful, it looks for the domain you typed with the .org extension.
• If you need to edit an address, you can use CTRL+LEFT ARROW and CTRL+RIGHT ARROW to easily move between different parts of the address separated by periods.
• When you start to type an address you've been to before, the new AutoComplete feature completes the address for you.

1. In My Computer or Windows Explorer, open the folder you want to add to your Favorites list.
2. On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites.

• First, open the Favorites menu, or click the Favorites button on the toolbar to open the Favorites bar. Then, point to a link you want to move and drag it to a different place in the list. Try it out!
• To put a link into a folder in your Favorites list, just drag the link to the folder and wait for the folder list to open. Then you can drop the link where you want it.
• You can add folders to your Favorites list by clicking the Favorites menu, and then clicking Organize Favorites.
• Want to remove a link from the list? Just right-click the link, and then click Delete.

Need more space in your browser window? You can move your toolbar, Links bar, and Address bar to create more room or a custom look. For example, try putting your Address bar and Links bar on the same line. Or drag your toolbar up to the menu bar! You can even put all of the toolbars on the same line if you want. Here's how:

Show me how it works:

1. Point your mouse at the vertical bar on the left side of the toolbar you want to move.
2. When the cursor changes to a double-headed arrow, press and hold down the mouse button, and then drag the toolbar to where you want it. You can move it left, right, up, or down.

1. Open the Web page you want to send.
2. On the File menu, point to Send.
3. If your friend's e-mail program supports HTML, click Page by Email to send the entire page in an e-mail message. This way your friend won't have to connect to the Internet to see the page. Otherwise, click Link by Email to send a link to the page in e-mail.
4. Type the address you want to send the page to, and then click Send on the toolbar.

The computer world changes so fast, it's hard to know when you need to update files on your computer. Microsoft Windows 98 operating system provides a resource site on the Web, called Windows Update, that helps your computer work and run better. Windows Update can automatically review the system software on your computer and then recommend when you need to install updates specific to your computer. Note that this information is not sent to Microsoft or to anyone else.

To go to the Windows Update, click Start, and then click Windows Update.