Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...

Have you ever felt like your computer’s interface just doesn’t quite fit your workflow? The Windows 11 taskbar, often overlooked as a static feature, is actually a powerful tool waiting to be tailored ...

Microsoft 365 Companions are designed to show you important data in just a click from the Windows taskbar. Microsoft 365 Companions are designed to show you important data in just a click from the ...

Windows 11 taskbar is testing a new feature that helps you understand the current power state of your laptop's battery, including showing the battery percentage directly on the taskbar. Microsoft is ...

Microsoft has been making quite a few changes to the Windows 11 taskbar, but there’s still room for improvement. Despite the big Windows 11 2024 Update that just dropped and all the nifty features and ...

Windows 11 may not be a perfect operating system out of the box, but one of the things that makes it great is the ability to use third-party programs to change its looks and behaviors to fit your ...

Right now, I’ve got twelve open programs on my Windows 11 taskbar, plus four more pinned apps—and even on my ultrawide monitor, they’re taking up a lot of screen real estate. On my laptop, I have to ...

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 ...

A new report shows how enabling seconds on the Windows 11 system clock can worsen the battery life of your PC or laptop. To recap, Microsoft released the much-awaited Windows 11 Moment 3 update last ...

AI agents on the taskbar, Copilot in the File Explorer, and much more. AI agents on the taskbar, Copilot in the File Explorer, and much more. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...