Windows has changed a lot in the last few years, for good, but some features were better in the previous versions of Windows. For example, the grouped icons in our taskbar. With the latest Windows 11 ...

Windows 11 is continually evolving with additional updates and feature improvements, moving it further and further from its Windows 10 roots. A everything you can do, I can do better, kind of ...

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

Something to look forward to: Windows 11's implementation of the taskbar – one of the operating system's most fundamental elements – has been quite controversial since Windows 11 launched. A Windows ...

Keeping all system tray icons visible helps me stay aware of what’s running in the background. Visible icons aren’t cluttered if screen space allows and background apps are limited. System tray icons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this post, we will show you how to add or remove the Mouse Keys icon on the Taskbar in Windows 11. Mouse Keys is an accessibility feature that allows users to control the mouse pointer using the ...

Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Insider build less than a week after 22610, for Insiders on the Dev and Beta channels. Update, May 10: There's a newer build 22616.100 available, but it's just ...

We appear to be entering a period of Windows’ development where we can expect new features and tweaks to come to the operating system several times a year. To that end, Microsoft continues to add, ...

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