Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...

Your Windows 10 taskbar can provide quick access to all the information you'll need. Here's how to personalize your taskbar before Windows 11 arrives. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET ...

Your computer's wallpaper is beautiful, obviously, but there's one problem: the ugly white taskbar is covering part of it up, or worse, clashing with it. The free and open-source application ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...