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Please verify your email address. Some may find Windows 11's taskbar less useful and similar to macOS'. Open-source developers have created apps to customize the taskbar, including ExplorerPatcher.

Windhawk works through mods. And it has several of them for the taskbar, though they all have different purposes. And one of ...

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

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.

Windhawk lets you add features, tweak UI behavior, and restore classic elements in Windows, and these nine mods make it shine, from per-monitor Alt+Tab and better File Explorer sizes to taskbar ...

Windows 11 can't move the taskbar, and four years later, Microsoft still has no plans to bring it back. Here's why, according ...

Want to move the Windows 11 taskbar to the side or top of the screen? Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn’t plan on creating an official way to do that anytime soon. The issue came up during a Q&A session ...

This guide covers four top Windows 11 Start menu replacement apps: Start11, StartAllBack, Open Shell Menu, and Flow Launcher. These apps offer a range of customization options, from classic layouts to ...

Something to look forward to: Many long-time Windows 10 users did not receive the Start menu overhaul in Windows 11 too well, in part because it lost many of its staple functions, including taskbar ...