Your April article (“Optimize Windows 11 With These 8 Settings Tweaks“) had good tips for adjusting the Start menu and ...

Microsoft is finally ready to begin shipping its new Start menu for Windows 11 that was first announced earlier this year. As of this week, Microsoft is now testing the next major feature drop for ...

If Task View keeps popping up randomly on Windows 11, check your keyboard, Touchpad gesture settings, unplug the controller, ...

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Windows Update delivers security updates and the latest fixes to help your device run smoothly. So, you should check for Windows Updates and see if this helps. If you have paused updates, resume ...

Microsoft wants you to share content/items more frequently, so it's now adding the "Share" button everywhere, including the Start menu and even the taskbar. Windows 11's Share UI is a built-in feature ...

A smaller taskbar is also on the way later this year. A smaller taskbar is also on the way later this year. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, ...

Recently, Windows 11 has added a new way to force-close unresponsive applications directly from the taskbar. Normally, when an app becomes unresponsive, users either have to restart their computer or ...

Microsoft has officially announced a bunch of interesting and much-needed updates for the taskbar. Some of them are documented in the release notes for the latest Beta build, while others are hidden.

Right now, I’ve got twelve open programs on my Windows 11 taskbar, plus four more pinned apps—and even on my ultrawide monitor, they’re taking up a lot of screen real estate. On my laptop, I have to ...

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 ...