Customizing Your Control Panel in the Desktop View

To add or remove items from the desktop:

  1. To show the Tools group on your desktop, select the Tools check box.
  2. In the Tools group, specify what tasks you would like to accomplish through the control panel. The appropriate shortcuts will be placed to the desktop. The Selected tasks list shows the tasks for which shortcuts are already placed on the desktop. The Available tasks list shows the tasks for which you do not yet have shortcuts on your desktop.
  3. To show your custom buttons on the desktop, select the Custom buttons check box.
  4. To show the shortcut for creating new custom hyperlink buttons at the bottom of the desktop, select the Create a new domain custom button check box.
  5. Specify whether to show the Statistics and Favorites group and what items to show there. Deselecting check boxes will remove the respective items from the desktop. The Favorites group shows the links to items or control panel screens that you added to desktop by navigating to the respective control panel screens and clicking Create shortcut or Add to favorites icons.
  6. Click OK.

To add a mail account to the Favorites group of the desktop:

  1. On your Home page, click Mail in the Services group.
  2. Click the mail name you want to add to favorites.
  3. Click Add to favorites at the upper right corner of the screen.
  4. Specify the desktop shortcut label and the description.
  5. Click OK.

To add items to the Favorites group of the desktop:

  1. Navigate to the control panel screen you need.
  2. Click the Create shortcut icon at the upper right corner of the screen.
  3. Specify the desktop shortcut label and the description.
  4. Click OK.

To remove items from the Favorites group of the desktop:

  1. On the desktop, click the shortcut that you wish to remove.
  2. Click Edit Favorites in the upper right corner of the screen.
  3. Click Remove.

OR

  1. On the desktop, click the icon corresponding to the shortcut that you wish to remove.
  2. Click Remove.