Windows 7 only: Reader Jay wanted the Windows 7 taskbar to work more efficiently—so he rolled up his sleeves and figured out how to enable middle-clicking to close applications. Normally when you ...

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 ...

One of Windows 7’s niftier new features is an improved Taskbar, but it wasn’t included in the pre-beta build of the operating system just distributed at the PDC. I’ve got a video of it in action, ...

Dick Frank unintentionally changed something in Windows 7 so that each window, rather than each application, gets its own taskbar icon. That’s too many icons. How does he change it back? One of the ...

You can pin frequently accessed folders to Windows Explorer’s folder-like icon on the taskbar, but even more helpful for some might be the ability to pin a system-wide search to that same folder.

Windows 7 only: If you're not into Windows desktop gadgets, there is another way to easily monitor your computer's CPU and RAM: Taskbar Meters puts simple, attractive resource monitors right on your ...

There are a ton of customization apps out there for Windows 11, and many of them stake their identity on bringing back fan-favorite UI elements from years past. Tools such as Start11, StartAllBack, ...

Windows 11 is a fine operating system with a lot of new and modern features that make it, in many ways, better than every version that came before it. But there's always some nostalgia at play when it ...