is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is rolling out a taskbar notification system to its Windows 11 widgets ...

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

The System Tray on your Windows computer is the set of icons that appear on the right-side of your Taskbar. Also known as the ‘Notification Center,’ a system tray, most commonly, holds utilities that ...

Windows 11 starts off looking clean and minimal, but that polished look doesn't last forever. Before long, icons pile up on the taskbar, notifications keep flashing across the screen, and the Start ...

Microsoft is revisiting how search functions in the Windows 11 taskbar, while users could also soon get a small shield icon on their taskbar's system tray to indicate when a PC is connected to a VPN.

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 ...

If the Auto-Hide Taskbar feature is not working in Windows 11, this post will interest you. Microsoft changed how the taskbar works in the Windows 11 operating system. Certain aspects have changed; ...

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 ...

If you're a Windows user, you're likely interacting with the taskbar most of the time, and yet most people don't know about all of the options and customization it offers. With a few easy tweaks, the ...

From time to time, certain key elements in the Windows 10 or 11 user interface can go dormant. You click on or touch the Start menu icon, or other icons in the taskbar, and nothing happens. Keep ...

Android 13 Developer Preview 2 is out, and with it come a bunch of changes for the next version of Android. Preview 2 is still a very early look at Android 13, and most of the big feature reveals for ...