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You can customize the Windows taskbar in several different ways. You can display the bar horizontally or vertically. You can pin applications to the taskbar, select icon size and group pinned icons.

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.

When a Windows 11 application hangs, the normal recourse is to open up the Task Manager, dig through the list of running processes, and use the End Task option in that utility. But there's another way ...

Sarah is a freelance writer and CNET How To blogger. Her main focus is Windows, but she also covers everything from mobile tech to video games to DIY hardware projects. She likes to press buttons and ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

Windows Taskbar context menu for open apps always had an option to End Task that can quickly close a running application. It came in handy in case the program stopped responding. The option was ...

There’s a ritual among dedicated PC users. We watch new Apple events closely (whether we admit it or not), just to see what weird stuff the other side of the computer aisle is up to. A few weeks ago ...

Pinning a program to your taskbar means to put an icon on it for fast, one-click access to that program. Microsoft Office consists of several programs that you may use throughout your workday. Each ...