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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 ...

Microsoft has provided ways for Windows 10 uses to customize the taskbar, but this customization is pretty limited in scope. If you want to go all out, the default options in Windows 10 will not ...

In Windows 7 and 8, you could customize icons in the “system tray” to permanently show on the taskbar, or hide them away in the pop-up drawer. These options have moved in Windows 10. Previously, you ...

If you want to reset Taskbar System Tray Icons in Windows 11 to default, this guide will help you do it. On earlier versions of Windows up to Windows 10, the icons at the bottom-right of the taskbar ...

Custom icons aren't just for fun; they can also help you better identify oft-used folders and apps to save you time searching. Changing an app or folder's icon is very easy in Windows. Here's how to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 small size of the icons on the Windows XP taskbar can make it difficult to distinguish between them when you're trying to quickly open a program. Although Microsoft provides business users with ...

Icons on the taskbar give you quick access to the programs you use the most. Instead of opening a program from the Start screen or searching for it under all programs, you click the icon and the ...