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

Windows 11's taskbar offers extensive customization for a personalized computing experience. Users can now easily adjust icon alignment, manage app visibility, and control system tray elements.

The taskbar is at the center of everything you do on Microsoft’s operating system—launching and closing apps, switching between windows, personalizing the desktop—and has been around in some form ...

At first, you need to open News and Interests widget by placing or hovering the mouse cursor on its taskbar icon. If for some reason, News and Interests widget is not showing or missing from the ...

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(Option 1) Select the "Always" option in the "Show smaller taskbar buttons" setting to show smaller icons. Click the Taskbar page on the right side. (Option 3) Select the Never option to show ...