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 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 ...

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You can also use the Registry Editor. The process explained below includes modifications to some registry keys. The Registry in Windows OS is a hierarchical database that contains essential ...

Got too many icons cluttering your Windows 7 taskbar? That’s definitely a possibility these days, especially now that Internet Explorer 9 lets you pin your favorite sites there. If only you could ...

Microsoft is testing a new taskbar icon scaling feature that automatically scales down Windows taskbar icons to show more apps when it gets too overcrowded. The feature is gradually rolling out to ...

In Windows 10, you can reserve one entire row at the top for the Quick Launch Icons and the bottom row for the Taskbar Buttons and App icons. This post will show you how to do that. The Taskbar was ...