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

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 has changed a lot over the years and lost some old-school features along the way. Window grouping on the taskbar is a relatively new feature, for example, and you could disable it entirely in ...

Although Windows 11 shows icons in an Overflow menu on the Taskbar, it is possible to stack or unstack icons on the Taskbar using this tutorial. You can do that with the help of the Registry Editor.

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 ...

On Windows 11, you can now switch to smaller Taskbar icons, and in this guide, I'll explain how the feature works and how to enable it. Earlier versions of the operating system offered a "Use small ...

Add the TaskbarSi value to the Windows Registry. Change value data to 0 for a small taskbar or 2 for bigger icons. Restart or log out for it to take effect. The easiest way to change the Windows 11 ...

Microsoft has added a new feature to Windows 11 that allows you to end tasks directly from the taskbar, but it's turned off by default. While Windows has had a 'Close Window' option when ...

I love me a full taskbar. Give me the option to pin an app I'll use often, and boy howdy will I pin a lot of apps. I don't think I've filled it up entirely in many years, though, but if that sounds ...

The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The big picture: Windows 11 offers a ton of hidden features that are still unknown to the vast majority of users. One such function is a handy 'End Task' option that can be accessed by right-clicking ...