Q. Your April article (“Optimize Windows 11 With These 8 Settings Tweaks“) had good tips for adjusting the Start menu and taskbar, but I’d like to do more. How can I go deeper into customization? A.

Something to look forward to: Windows 11's implementation of the taskbar – one of the operating system's most fundamental elements – has been quite controversial since Windows 11 launched. A Windows ...

Windows has changed a lot over the years and lost some old-school features along the way. Window grouping on the taskbar is a relatively new feature, for example, and you could disable it entirely in ...

The Windows 11 taskbar may look modern, but it's surprisingly rigid. Beyond a few basic tweaks, Microsoft gives you very little room to personalize, even less than in previous versions of Windows.

Although Windows 11 shows icons in an Overflow menu on the Taskbar, it is possible to stack or unstack icons on the Taskbar using this tutorial. You can do that with the help of the Registry Editor.

Microsoft is testing a new dedicated taskbar resizing setting in Windows 11 Experimental Preview Build 26300.8758, allowing users to reduce the actual height of the taskbar rather than just shrinking ...

Although drag-and-drop support for pinning icons to the Taskbar is almost gone in Windows 11, you can still pin or unpin icons to the Taskbar. However, if you want to unpin all taskbar icons at once ...