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Please verify your email address. Some may find Windows 11's taskbar less useful and similar to macOS'. Open-source developers have created apps to customize the taskbar, including ExplorerPatcher.

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You can customize the Windows taskbar in several different ways. You can display the bar horizontally or vertically. You can pin applications to the taskbar, select icon size and group pinned icons.

Former Microsoft exec Mikhail Parakhin reveals he fought hard against removing Windows 11’s vertical taskbar.

Over at Windows expert Paul Thurrott's web site, he points out that you can easily access the shortcut properties for a pinned shortcut by first right-clicking on the taskbar button, and then ...

Trying to create a customized start menu / taskbar for a specific department and not having any luck. I can see the group policy that the XML is attached to applies successfully for my test user and I ...

Many users want an option to be able to launch programs, files or folders easily from the Windows desktop itself. Like its predecessors, Windows 10 too supports a built-in solution that lets you ...