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 ...

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 ...

I spent last night looking for a way to pin a specific file in Windows 7 to the taskbar, so that I could open my to do list/scribble pad with a Win+key shortcut. While I only used it to open a ...