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

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 ...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27858 on the Canary channel. The build includes a new taskbar feature and improvements to the desktop. In this release, Microsoft has removed ...

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 ...

If you've recently moved to Windows 11 from Windows 10, you'll have no doubt noticed that one of the most visible changes is in the taskbar. Yes, there is the repositioned Start button and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unleash Windows 11's hidden features, maximize the power of its AI tools, and fine-tune your PC like a pro with these ...

Microsoft is testing an update to the Start menu, too. Microsoft is testing an update to the Start menu, too. is a former news writer for The Verge. Microsoft is testing out resizable taskbar icons in ...

The big picture: Copilot may not have caught on with Windows users the way Microsoft would have wanted, but that isn't stopping the company from pushing its shiny new AI feature on unsuspecting ...