The Windows operating system allows you to pin most software or apps directly to the taskbar for quick access when you’re on the desktop. This, however, does not hold true for Windows Update. While it ...

Although drag and drop support to pin icons on the Taskbar is almost gone from Windows 11, you can still pin or unpin icons to the Taskbar. However, if you want to unpin all taskbar icons at once in ...

The system tray can easily become a dumping ground for apps that insist on living there. If your taskbar feels cluttered, or ...

While the cloud-based storage Google Drive isn't a physical hard drive, it works like one and helps you manage files on and off the Web. After you install the Google Drive desktop app, it adds a ...

Windows 11 is continually evolving with additional updates and feature improvements, moving it further and further from its Windows 10 roots. A everything you can do, I can do better, kind of ...

The Windows Explorer icon on the Windows 7 taskbar gives you easy access to your Libraries, but it's more likely that you want to go to a specific folder or even the root of a particular drive. You ...

How do you keep the files and folders you need within easy reach when using Windows 7? By default, the Recent Documents folder is gone (though you can bring it back from the Start menu Properties ...

The Windows taskbar is home to the Start menu and can be configured with your most-used apps. In the move to Windows 11, there are several notable taskbar changes. Your app icons are centered by ...

Reader Jim wrote in with this problem: “Somehow I’ve lost the icon for Internet Explorer in my Taskbar and can’t figure out how to restore it. Might sound dumb, but I’ve spent hours with no results.” ...

Lis has a taskbar “running over with icons,” and needs to clean things up a bit. If you keep a lot of programs running at the same time, or if you have pinned a lot of them to the taskbar, that row of ...