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 ...

As part of optimizing Android for tablets and foldables, Google introduced a taskbar to aid multitasking. Android 13 QPR2 is set to make a big change that makes the taskbar “transient” and less of a ...

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

Microsoft has a new ad that says Windows 11 is the home of gaming, but shows Chrome pinned on the taskbar instead.

If you hover over apps on the Windows 11 taskbar, you can now share your app's window with Copilot and start asking questions ...

The taskbar is gradually getting back to the Windows 10 days after Microsoft rebuilt it for Windows 11. The taskbar is gradually getting back to the Windows 10 days after Microsoft rebuilt it for ...

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 ...

Like the Start menu, the Taskbar in Windows 11 has gotten a thumb's down from a lot of people, mostly because it's much less customizable than its Windows 10 counterpart. In Windows 10, you can move ...

Stardock’s Start11 is back with more fixes for the Windows 11 experience. Today, the company is offering two key improvements: the ability to ungroup icons on the Windows 11 taskbar, as well as widen ...

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 ...

Just because the Windows taskbar features a ton of handy info doesn’t mean you want to see it all the time. If you’d like to learn how to hide the taskbar in Windows — at least when you're doing ...

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 ...