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Please verify your email address. Some may find Windows 11's taskbar less useful and similar to macOS'. Open-source developers have created apps to customize the taskbar, including ExplorerPatcher.

Your computer's wallpaper is beautiful, obviously, but there's one problem: the ugly white taskbar is covering part of it up, or worse, clashing with it. The free and open-source application ...

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.

Over at Windows expert Paul Thurrott's web site, he points out that you can easily access the shortcut properties for a pinned shortcut by first right-clicking on the taskbar button, and then ...

The first thing you ever learned about Windows 7 was probably the updated taskbar. Many of its goodies -- like rich thumbnail previews from the taskbar icons, pinning apps to the taskbar, and jump ...

Trying to create a customized start menu / taskbar for a specific department and not having any luck. I can see the group policy that the XML is attached to applies successfully for my test user and I ...

Many users want an option to be able to launch programs, files or folders easily from the Windows desktop itself. Like its predecessors, Windows 10 too supports a built-in solution that lets you ...

Unlike macOS and other desktop platforms, Windows 10 lets you redesign the desktop with third-party tools that offer a wide range of customizations. From simply changing the accent color to installing ...