Out of the box, some of Windows 11's settings are configured in a questionable manner - here's what I always tweak for a ...

Windows makes it easy (although not obvious) to customize the Taskbar with custom icons. You don’t need a third-party app, just the icon files to replace the defaults.

Add the TaskbarSi value to the Windows Registry. Change value data to 0 for a small taskbar or 2 for bigger icons. Restart or log out for it to take effect. The easiest way to change the Windows ...

And giving users the option to make the taskbar itself more compact, maybe? We shall see, but there's only a choice to make the icons smaller right now.

This post shows how to change desktop icons, taskbar icons, folder icons, file icons, shortcut icons, Drive icons, etc. on your Windows 11/10 computer easily.

Windows 11 introduces a major overhaul of the Windows user interface. There is a hidden icons flyout on the lower right of the Taskbar that Microsoft has updated to reflect the design of Windows 11.

What about improving it for people who run at most a few instances each of a small number of apps? Having a 5-6" string of icons in the middle of a 21 or 28" long taskbar does nothing for me ...

If Taskbar Search bar or icon is missing, then this post shows how to get the Search bar back on Windows 11/10. Identify the issue, Enable & restore it using these methods.

Windows 11 users will soon see a new taskbar setting to prevent it from combining app icons when it runs out of space. Windows 10 still has ...

Instead, large icons across the task bar are now used to launch applications. By default, Internet Explorer , Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player all have icons in the task bar.

One trick is to drag the icon for any Website from IE 9’s address bar to your Windows 7 task bar, pinning it there permanently.