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Windows 11 taskbar icons uncovered: What do they mean?

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

Remembering the best and worst about Windows 10 on the year it technically “died”

If you’ve been following our coverage for the last few years, you’ll already know that 2025 is the year that Windows 10 died.

Shrink your Windows 11 taskbar icons with this simple tweak

Click the Taskbar page on the right side. (Option 1) Select the "Always" option in the "Show smaller taskbar buttons" setting to show smaller icons. (Option 2) Select the "When taskbar is full" option ...
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Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
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Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...