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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.
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This open-source tool fixed Windows 11's ugly taskbar

Windhawk is a free and open-source utility that allows you to customize most aspects of the Windows user interface, including ...
PC World

Microsoft is bringing smaller taskbar icons to Windows 11

Microsoft has been making quite a few changes to the Windows 11 taskbar, but there’s still room for improvement. Despite the big Windows 11 2024 Update that just dropped and all the nifty features and ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft starts testing Windows 11 taskbar icon scaling

Microsoft is testing a new taskbar icon scaling feature that automatically scales down Windows taskbar icons to show more apps when it gets too overcrowded. The feature is gradually rolling out to ...
The Verge

Windows 11’s taskbar is getting contacts, files, and calendar ‘companions’

Microsoft 365 Companions are designed to show you important data in just a click from the Windows taskbar. Microsoft 365 Companions are designed to show you important data in just a click from the ...
The Verge

Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar

AI agents on the taskbar, Copilot in the File Explorer, and much more. AI agents on the taskbar, Copilot in the File Explorer, and much more. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...