Windows 8 : Managing Content - Jump Lists

A jump list is a context menu for a Desktop taskbar icon. The list is organized into nouns and verbs and can contain useful actions. Nouns are categorized into pinned items, recent or frequent items, and custom categories. Tasks are usually separated into user tasks and taskbar tasks. What you see on a jump list is dependent on the application developer, but there are some development guidelines for jump lists—they are not just a list of the most recently used files that you see on most application’s file menus.

 A jump list in Firefox

To use a jump list

1. Right-click a taskbar icon on the Desktop.

The icon displays a jump list .

2. Select the command or object that you want to use.

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Select an item so the Pin To Jump List icon becomes visible, and click that icon to have that destination always appear on the list.

Only destinations can be pinned to the jump list.

Tip

The jump lists for Start menu items are no more, because the Start menu is no more. However, jump lists were very popular and easy to use, and they served as the inspiration for the secondary tile feature in the tile-based interface in Windows 8.