João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also love all things tech and videogames, especially Nintendo, which he's always ...

Have you ever felt like your computer’s interface just doesn’t quite fit your workflow? The Windows 11 taskbar, often overlooked as a static feature, is actually a powerful tool waiting to be tailored ...

The taskbar is at the center of everything you do on Microsoft’s operating system—launching and closing apps, switching between windows, personalizing the desktop—and has been around in some form ...

The latest Windows 11 preview build from the Dev channel introduces much needed improvements for the system tray area, such as modern tooltips, better animations, the ability to drag icons, and more.

Nimish is a Berlin-based engineer-turned-journalist with over 12 years of experience covering news, reviewing gadgets and writing stories at the intersection of technology and society. He's worked at ...

Are there any utils that will remove a program from the task bar and place it's icon in the system tray? I've got HP's network scanjet util running on our machines, but the users close it to clear up ...

Windows has changed a lot in the last few years, for good, but some features were better in the previous versions of Windows. For example, the grouped icons in our taskbar. With the latest Windows 11 ...

The taskbar on your Windows PC is an integral part of the operating system. It houses the Start menu, your favorite apps, the date and time, and the notification area. Microsoft lets you customize ...

The simplified Windows 11 system tray design was close to being launched, but Microsoft backed out at the last minute. Microsoft has decided not to move forward with plans for a simplified system tray ...