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

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 ...

The Windows taskbar is home to the Start menu and can be configured with your most-used apps. In the move to Windows 11, there are several notable taskbar changes. Your app icons are centered by ...

Windows 11's taskbar offers extensive customization for a personalized computing experience. Users can now easily adjust icon alignment, manage app visibility, and control system tray elements.

This week's news recap is here with fresh updates for Windows 10 and 11, mysterious folders on drive C, Copilot Vision on Windows 11, big Surface dying, various browser updates, long-requested ...

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 ...

Microsoft is testing a new taskbar icon scaling feature that automatically scales down Windows taskbar icons to show more apps when it gets too overcrowded. The feature is gradually rolling out to ...

Windows 11's taskbar is a pretty minimalistic piece of user interface, and if you have a big screen, chances are that there are two vast areas of nothing to the left and right of your pinned apps.

Having a full Windows 11 taskbar at the bottom of my display seems like a waste of space to me, seeing as I tend to pin just a few icons to it – my browser, Word, Teams, and Zoom. In fact, the taskbar ...