Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.

Windows 11 is continually evolving with additional updates and feature improvements, moving it further and further from its Windows 10 roots. A everything you can do, I can do better, kind of ...

Windows 11 has a new taskbar that is much different than the one found on Windows 10 and other older versions of the operating system. One can argue that the changes to the taskbar in Windows 11 are ...

Windows Copilot is a new feature and AI assistant for Windows 11 devices, and it is integrated with Bing Chat and first and 3 rd party plugins. You can click on the Windows Copilot taskbar icon to ...

The taskbar is at the center of everything you do on Microsoft’s operating system—launching and closing apps, switching between windows, personalizing the desktop—and has been around in some form ...

One of the first things you'll notice about Windows 11 is that its taskbar centers its icons (including the Start menu) in the middle of itself. Longtime Windows users might not like this "macOS look" ...

(Option 1) Select the "Always" option in the "Show smaller taskbar buttons" setting to show smaller icons. Click the Taskbar page on the right side. (Option 3) Select the Never option to show ...

Like the Start menu, the Taskbar in Windows 11 has gotten a thumb's down from a lot of people, mostly because it's much less customizable than its Windows 10 counterpart. In Windows 10, you can move ...

Something to look forward to: Windows 11's implementation of the taskbar – one of the operating system's most fundamental elements – has been quite controversial since Windows 11 launched. A Windows ...

After almost three years, Microsoft has finally added the 'Never combine taskbar button' back to Windows, and it still doesn't work correctly. The combine taskbar items feature in Windows 10 allows ...

Of all the optimizations and tweakable settings available natively within Windows 11, I find these three to be by far the ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...