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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 ...

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.

Google Chrome's application shortcuts turn any web site into a separate item on your Windows 7 taskbar, but unfortunately many sites have low-res icons that make your taskbar ugly. Here's the simple ...

Lis has a taskbar “running over with icons,” and needs to clean things up a bit. If you keep a lot of programs running at the same time, or if you have pinned a lot of them to the taskbar, that row of ...

The first thing you ever learned about Windows 7 was probably the updated taskbar. Many of its goodies -- like rich thumbnail previews from the taskbar icons, pinning apps to the taskbar, and jump ...

Windows 11 is looking great and working well. But there are certain features that are not carried over to Windows 11 from Windows 10. In this guide, we list out features that are missing on Windows 11 ...

If you've ever wondered how to customize your Windows 7 taskbar like some of the beautiful screenshots in our featured desktop series, here's the quick and simple instructions on exactly how to do it.

Some users have experienced abnormal behavior where their Windows 11/10 Taskbar icons are not showing, become invisible, go missing, become empty or blank or disappear & reappear randomly. If you have ...

If you’ve recently made the move from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7, one big change you’ve probably noticed is the way the operating system displays icons in its taskbar (the row along the bottom ...