I’ve found pinning a very helpful way to find quickly what I use often. (No, I’m not referring to the latest popular social site, Pinterest, which allows you to “pin” your favorite images to a virtual “corkboard”.)

• Windows 7 allows me to pin programs to the taskbar, along the bottom of my monitor screen, so I can readily open Outlook, Excel, Mozilla Firefox, TntMPD, and other programs I use daily.  (Read how…)
• I especially like pinning files in the “recent document list” in Word 2007, Excel 2007, or Powerpoint 2007.  (Read how…)
• You can also pin specific web pages to the taskbar with Internet Explorer 9. (Read how…)
• If I prefer not to have a lot of icons in my taskbar, I can pin programs in the Start Menu.  (Read how…)