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That works, but I wanted something that felt even more premium. So I went ahead and used Windhawk to customize the taskbar ...

Please verify your email address. Some may find Windows 11's taskbar less useful and similar to macOS'. Open-source developers have created apps to customize the taskbar, including ExplorerPatcher.

Try this free Microsoft Store app called Files to customize Windows 11. As the name suggests, it is a UWP File Manager app for Windows 11. It lets you open hard drives and folders in different tabs ...

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 ...

Windows 10 lets you change the location and size of the buttons in your taskbar but with this free application TaskbarDock, you can change a few more things. Let’s learn more about this freeware.

You normally access a shortcut's properties through the right-click menu, but when you're dealing with a Windows 7 pinned taskbar button, that's just going to pull up the excellent Jump List feature.

Trying to create a customized start menu / taskbar for a specific department and not having any luck. I can see the group policy that the XML is attached to applies successfully for my test user and I ...

The first thing you ever learned about Windows 7 was probably the updated taskbar. Many of its goodies -- like rich thumbnail previews from the taskbar icons, pinning apps to the taskbar, and jump ...