Microsoft has a new ad that says Windows 11 is the home of gaming, but shows Chrome pinned on the taskbar instead.

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant can now analyze apps in the taskbar and offer assistance—only when you explicitly ask for it ...

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

If you hover over apps on the Windows 11 taskbar, you can now share your app's window with Copilot and start asking questions ...

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This post explains how to enable Never Combine Taskbar buttons with Labels in Windows 11. By default, Windows 11 maximizes space on the taskbar by displaying icons and grouping windows from the same ...

Add the TaskbarSi value to the Windows Registry. Change value data to 0 for a small taskbar or 2 for bigger icons. Restart or log out for it to take effect. The easiest way to change the Windows 11 ...

Windhawk is a free and open-source utility that allows you to customize most aspects of the Windows user interface, including ...

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

Take back control of your PC’s Start menu and taskbar, whether you’re running Windows 10 or Windows 11. Microsoft has made a lot of changes to the Start menu and taskbar over the past few years. On ...

We can disable pinning items in Jump Lists for taskbar items and the Start menu in Windows 11 with two native options: Using Group Policy Editor Using the Registry Editor. Now when you right-click on ...

Windows 11 gets plenty of hate, sometimes well-deserved, but the operating system received plenty of new stuff in 2025. Here ...