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

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 ...

Like the Start menu, the Taskbar in Windows 11 has gotten a thumb's down from a lot of people, mostly because it's much less customizable than its Windows 10 counterpart. In Windows 10, you can move ...

Your Windows 10 taskbar can provide quick access to all the information you'll need. Here's how to personalize your taskbar before Windows 11 arrives. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET ...

The taskbar is at the center of everything you do on Microsoft’s operating system—launching and closing apps, switching between windows, personalizing the desktop—and has been around in some form ...

Dick Frank unintentionally changed something in Windows 7 so that each window, rather than each application, gets its own taskbar icon. That’s too many icons. How does he change it back? One of the ...

Windows 11 introduced several notable taskbar changes, but a number of features from Windows 10 didn't make the cut much to the frustration of some users. However, there is a solution if you're ...

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 ...

Microsoft is adding a dedicated icon on the Windows 10 taskbar for easy access to the weather, news, and other topics you’re interested in, without having to load up a browser. The “News and Internet” ...

Depending on your configuration for your screen resolution and DPI scaling level, the taskbar thumbnail threshold limit will vary. The following values are the default taskbar thumbnail threshold ...

The first thing you have to do is unlock the Windows 10 taskbar. By default, it is locked. You can unlock it by right-clicking on the Taskbar and clicking on the ‘Lock the Taskbar’ option. You’ll see ...

You can pin applications and files to the Windows taskbar to allow you to access them quickly and easily. Pinning an application takes a few quick clicks while pinning a file is a more involved ...