

The advice in this particular article also failed. For the life of me, I couldn't get the icon to live on the far left of the Taskbar. When Windows 7 was new, I had tried and tried but the best I could do was trade the vertical gray stripe for the old icon. I can't recall if I had tried the specific suggestion in the article, but I had tested many others. One of them was an article I had printed back in 2010 ( Quick cures for the worst Windows 7 annoyances by Scott Dunn at ) that included a tip on restoring the Show Desktop icon to its rightful place. Then I decided to clean up my work area and throw out some old papers. Eventually most of the computers I dealt with were migrated to Windows 7. DuckDuckGo, which makes use of Bing, is still included.For a long time I was frequently switching between Windows 7 and XP, so, I suffered more than most, never being able to adapt. "When a search engine does the censorship instead of its job, the search result loses its quality and it's not reliable anymore," said Ho, no doubt referencing this incident. These used to include Microsoft's Bing, but no longer.

Notepad++ includes a right-click option to "Search on internet" handy for those tapping into the web's expansive though sometimes unreliable resources for stuck coders, and there is a choice of search engines available in preferences.
