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 ...

At first glance, Windows 11 taskbar doesn’t offer much, especially when you compare it to previous versions. You can’t resize it, move it to the sides, or customize it the way you used to. Sure, third ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3671 (KB5055622), which contains a new feature that allows users to select how their taskbars will display app icons. This new ...

Windows 11 24H2 custom built PC. I found a thread about this problem from two years ago, but it was left unresolved. This seems to have been in a bug in 11 for years and years. It seems a simple thing ...

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 ...

Microsoft has just introduced a subtle change to how the battery level is shown in the Windows 11 taskbar. It’s a really useful change because it introduces color and percentage options. Battery ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released the KB5060829 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, which includes 38 changes, including improvements to the taskbar and a new PC-to-PC migration experience. The ...

As a journalist, most of my days are spent looking at my laptop’s screen. And nothing excites me more than a good trick to ...

AI agents on the taskbar, Copilot in the File Explorer, and much more. AI agents on the taskbar, Copilot in the File Explorer, and much more. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...