When you install an application on your Windows computer, the program’s executable file goes to the C: drive by default or a custom install location you select. To open this app, you must find it in ...

You can customize the Windows taskbar in several different ways. You can display the bar horizontally or vertically. You can pin applications to the taskbar, select icon size and group pinned icons.

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 ...

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

You normally access a shortcut's properties through the right-click menu, but when you're dealing with a Windows 7 pinned taskbar button, that's just going to pull up the excellent Jump List feature.

Click the Taskbar page on the right side. (Option 1) Select the "Always" option in the "Show smaller taskbar buttons" setting ...

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 ...

To pin Microsoft Edge to the taskbar in Windows 10, you'll simply need to open it and right-click its icon. You can pin Microsoft Edge to the dock on a Mac computer in a similar way. Pinning programs ...

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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 ...

Pinning the Google Chrome icon to your desktop taskbar will help you launch this browser quickly. Windows 8 includes an option to pin application icons and keep them visible on the taskbar even when ...

If you want to pin or unpin icons to the Taskbar or Start Menu in Windows 11, here is how you can do that. It is possible to pin any app to the Taskbar and Start Menu without using third-party ...