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

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 ...

Although drag and drop support to pin icons on the Taskbar is almost gone from Windows 11, you can still pin or unpin icons to the Taskbar. However, if you want to unpin all taskbar icons at once in ...

Windows 11's taskbar offers extensive customization for a personalized computing experience. Users can now easily adjust icon alignment, manage app visibility, and control system tray elements.

The Windows operating system allows you to pin most software or apps directly to the taskbar for quick access when you’re on the desktop. This, however, does not hold true for Windows Update. While it ...

While the cloud-based storage Google Drive isn't a physical hard drive, it works like one and helps you manage files on and off the Web. After you install the Google Drive desktop app, it adds a ...

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 ...

Donald Craig asked how he can configure the Windows taskbar for easier and more powerful access. The taskbar at the bottom of your screen does more than give you easy access to your currently open ...

Web apps are an essential part of most people’s workflow, whether it’s writing an email in Gmail or editing a spreadsheet in Excel Online. It’s handy to have all your stuff in the cloud, for sure, but ...

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 ...

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 ...