Windows 7 / Getting Started

Get the Latest Stock Quotes

  1. Add the Stocks gadget to the desktop. (See the earlier task, "Open the Gadget Gallery and Add Gadgets to the Desktop.")
  2. Connect to the Internet; stock prices and stock exchange data are displayed.
  3. Move your mouse over the bottom of the gadget and click the Plus button that appears. In the resulting Stocks dialog box, do any of the following:
    • Type a stock symbol in the Add Stock Symbol field and click Add to add a tracked stock.
    • Click an item in My Tracked Stocks and click the Delete button to delete it, or use the Move Up or Move Down arrow to change its position in the list.
  4. Click OK to close the dialog box.

When you click and drag the Stocks gadget to your desktop, it expands and displays a graph at the bottom giving you hour-byhour changes in the selected stock on active trading days, during trading hours.

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