Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant can now analyze apps in the taskbar and offer assistance—only when you explicitly ask for it ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to roll out its biggest change to the Windows taskbar in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the time, you don't care about your taskbar's position in Windows 11. However, there are instances when you might prefer to have it in a different location on your screen. Perhaps you want ...

There’s a ritual among dedicated PC users. We watch new Apple events closely (whether we admit it or not), just to see what weird stuff the other side of the computer aisle is up to. A few weeks ago ...