Questions tagged [taskbar]
The bar displayed on a full edge of a GUI desktop that is used to launch, monitor and switch between running applications.
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Have a toolbar docked independently from the taskbar in Windows 7
In Windows XP, I'd make my Quicklaunch toolbar dock to the right side of my screen while the original Taskbar (was that the name? I'm already forgetting...) was at the bottom.
In Windows 7, I can't ...
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Windows 7 TaskBar Explorer Icon Pins
If I want to add a shortcut to any folder on my HD it pins them to the "Pinned" section of the Windows Explorer icon on my Taskbar. So to get to one of these shortcuts, I have to right click on the ...
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How to prevent the bouncing Taskbar icons inferno in Windows 11?
Every minute, as my master script adds another cmd.exe instance in the background, my cmd.exe Taskbar icon group now "bounces" or "shrink-expands" in an extremely distracting ...
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How to make icon show up in notification area of the taskbar FROM THE COMMAND LINE?
I'm trying to script configuration of the notification area on the Windows taskbar.
Windows has a GUI that will do it:
That puts icons in the notification area, like this:
How can this be done from ...
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Stick a terminal window on the desktop
For some reason I need to get rid of the default desktop and instead I need a terminal to be in the place of the desktop. As an example if I'm using Windows my desktop looks as shown in below.
But, I ...
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How can I add a folder toolbar to Windows 10 taskbar with PowerShell?
On the taskbar, you've always been able to right click on "Toolbars" and then "New Toolbar..." which will ask you for a folder to select. This folder would then appear as a separate toolbar on your ...
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How do you change the hover text on a pinned taskbar item in Windows 10?
I have 2 icons for the different version of the same app. I would like to rename one of them for more clarity. Currently, on hovering over the taskbar pinned icons, I see it as App and App (1). How ...
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Can't open calendar on taskbar [Win7]
First off, I wouldn't be asking if Google had provided a solution to my problem but even after hours of reading different sites / forums, I legitimately couldn't find anything for Windows 7.
You know ...
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How to quickly close multiple windows from the same application via the taskbar?
Closing multiple app instances/tabs/windows requires a lot of waiting and chasing of close buttons.
When I need to close multiple instances/tabs of an app in the Windows 10 taskbar is there a way to ...
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Google Chrome: Separate taskbar windows?
Recently I've been having a problem with my taskbar and haven't been able to find a response/fix or at least I'm unsure in how to word it properly... but here goes.
I have 2 monitors so most of the ...
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Windows 10 - can I have 2 shortcut to Chrome on the taskbar?
Can I have 2 shortcuts to Chrome on the taskbar? I want to have two shortcuts to open Chrome on my desktop - one with and another without the in-cognito mode startup flag (with different color icons).
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Windows 10 unhide taskbar with hotkey instead of cursor position
As the title suggests, I would like to know what registry entries and files I would have to edit to do this. The problem is, I like my taskbar on the left, and hidden to maximize the space used by a ...
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How do I get just a Microphone icon on my taskbar for Cortana instead of a search field + microphone?
Finding the search field useless, but the microphone input for Cortana great. Was hoping to just have the microphone icon alone.
Edit: I'm looking for a way to just get the Cortana microphone icon, ...
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Windows 10 pinned folder behavior
In windows 8 I was able to pin a folder to the taskbar and when I right clicked my mouse over it I was given give a list of recently accessed folders and also able to pin them. Now, after upgrading ...
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Close window from the taskbar?
In Windows 7, I was able to right-click on a window's button in the taskbar and get a menu containing an item for closing (or minimizing or maximizing) that window. Is there something I can adjust in ...
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Windows 10 - Most of taskbar completely stopped working
I've had W10 running on my laptop now for quite a while, and haven't had problems as of yet.
This morning I turned on my laptop, and figured out that the start menu, search, battery, wifi, sound, ...
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Flash a full-sized popup image via Windows Taskbar?
There's a document I'd like to keep handy at my desk for reference purposes (a contact list for everyone at my company). I'd like to clear all the paper from my desk and store it digitally, but I'd ...
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how to add shortcut to ubuntu taskbar
I am using UBUNTU 14.04 with cinnamon desktop. After trying to create a shortcut for a PDF file to Cinnamon's Taskbar, I found maybe I should have searched for a folder containing the Taskbar's ...
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Make outlook emails display as a separate icon on taskbar
I realize this is a duplicate. Unfortunately the original question is just answered as "This is a duplicate". and when I look at the original posts, I can see that they clearly don't address the ...
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Win 7 taskbar features
When I hover the mouse over an active task icon on the win7 taskbar, the miniature window appears momentarily and disappears, not allowing to click and maximise the task. Can this feature be ...
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How to remove Store from taskbar
Since a recent Windows 8.1 update, I have the Microsoft Store fixed in my taskbar.
How can I remove this Icon again?
Right click on it does not give me the unpin option
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Explorer Hidden Taskbar Breaks
On my Windows 7 PC, I have the taskbar set to auto-hide and all works fine except for a few occasions when it well get stuck up and nothing I can do will hide it again. Not even re-setting the auto-...
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Can anyone tell me the reason for this odd glitch? [closed]
So, here I was using my Windows 8.1 laptop when I noticed something odd. My Firefox window was sharing the icon of whatever was next to it on the taskbar. It sometimes didn't have any icon at all. ...
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How/Is there a way to fix broken TASK links on Windows 7 for Google Chrome?
I solved this a while back by uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome but it didn't work the first attempt at this because I prematurely believed it failed
I right-click on Google Chrome pinned to my ...
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Is it possible to have the pinned shortcuts indicate that they are running?
I have a 3 monitor setup. I set the app icons to show on the taskbar of the display that it is on. This part works great.
I have pinned a number of apps. Let's take Outlook as an example. It is ...
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Windows 8: the taskbar's Chrome won't open without right-clicking, but why?
I have a Chrome icon on my taskbar. If I left-click it, it glows as if to open, but then the glowing goes away and nothing happens. If I right-click it, then I can successfully open Chrome by clicking ...
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Rearrange explorer windows in taskbar [duplicate]
I want to rearrange explorer windows in task bar in windows 7. I am able to rearrange windows of different applications but I can't rearrange windows of explorer
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Make windows' grouped programs to be in the most recently used order using win + number shorcut
Windows groups programs together in the taskbar so that the user can access them using win+#. You can cycle through them by pressing the same # multiple times, but these programs are ordered in the ...
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Remove Norton One Icon?
I recently installed Norton One, and it installed Norton 360. It works ok, but now I have a yellow "1" right next to my start button, on the taskbar!
How can I get rid of the icon while still keeping ...
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Can VirtualBox's tools automatically hide the Windows taskbar for seamless mode?
When I switch to seamless mode in VirtualBox the Windows taskbar appears right above the Mac OS X Dock. It's very annoying and makes seamless mode pretty much unusable.
Is there a way to configure ...
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Is it possible to set the Windows Taskbar Preview pop-ups to sort alphabetically?
Sometimes when you have many instances of a process, it can get pretty ugly to switch between windows, especially when the windows' names are weird...
So, is there a setting to sort these pop-up ...
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How to make combined taskbar buttons more distinct in Windows 7
I am adjusting the Windows 7 taskbar and am reasonably happy with it. I have Taskbar Taskbar Buttons setting at Always combine, hide labels which is doing what I want and what it says. What I would ...
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Windows 7 taskbar tweak - make Alt-Tab in Windows 7 like Ctrl-Tab in Firefox
Assume that we have three tabs in Firefox, and we are at the first tab,
when we do Ctrl Tab, we navigate to the second tab, Ctrl-Tab again,
we go to the third tab (1st >> 2nd >> 3rd). We must do
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Windows 7 Hide Labels of certain programs
Is there a way to hide labels on some taskbar icons, while leaving the labels for other icons?
I'm currently using the solution to "Hide taskbar labels without combining", but when I have multiple ...
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Vertical taskbar on windows server 2008 too wide [duplicate]
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Windows 7 taskbar as sidebar, minimum width fixed
Some people like a vertical taskbar. On older Windows systems it was possible to make it as wide as 1 Icon:
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How to change Firefox 4 full screen title bar gradient
Is it possible to change this gradient to something else (preferably a solid color or the default gradual horizontal fade)?
Using Firefox 4.0 on Windows-XP-x86-Pro-SP3.
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Looking for Windows XP "dual desktops" with dual monitors
I'm looking for some very specific features in a dual-monitor setup on Windows XP and so far have not been able to find what I'm looking for. The best way I can describe it is perhaps dual desktops or ...
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All my program icons in Windows 7 have disappeared
All my program icons in Windows 7 have disappeared:
What could be causing this? I followed the instructions in this question but it didn't fix them. What can I do?
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Can Rainmeter "dock" like the Windows taskbar, Desktop Sidebar, or Google Desktop sidebar?
Well, I think that's the most succinct title I've ever had. Not sure what to say here, save for restating the question.
Can Rainmeter "dock" to the walls of a display like the Windows taskbar, ...
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VirtualBox flashes in Windows task bar
I'm running VirtualBox (host operating system is Windows Vista, guest is Ubuntu Linux) and maybe a couple of times a day it lights up its icon in the Windows taskbar for no reason (I have update ...
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Windows 7 taskbar freezes on startup for about 1-2 mins
Running Windows 7 64-bit for about 4 months now. Never had this problem, didn't install anything new recently.
When I boot up I can't do anything in the taskbar, it's frozen for about 1-2 minutes ...
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Taskbar unresponsive after unlock
I have my computer set to lock itself after a period of inactivity. When I unlock it again, the taskbar is unresponsive for well over a minute, meaning I cannot use the start menu or click on any ...
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Windows 7 Pinned taskbar items roaming profiles
I am using roaming profiles on a Windows server 2003 domain. On my Windows 7 box in the office i have have multiple items pinned to the taskbar. however when i boot up offline (say at home) i don't ...
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Make taskbar and title bar black when window is maximized (like in Vista)
Is there a way to make the taskbar and application title bar go blank when a window is maximized, like it was in Vista?
I find it very distracting to see what's behind the maximized window (there is ...
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How to swap Icon of running Application in Taskbar (on Windows)
I am using Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windos 2000.
There is a windows taskbar where each running application is represented by a rectangular button with an icon and a caption, one button per ...
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Windows 11 - Never Combine taskbar buttons BUT also hide labels (so only small icons left)
After the recent windows 11 updates a few months ago, my Never Combine option went away, but then after the most recent update, it came back.
I see the Never option below:
But it shows Labels, I'd ...
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Plugging in a second monitor makes windows go behind my panel. How do I debug this?
On my main screen only, I have an Xfce panel (i.e. my taskbar) at the top of my screen. When I plug in my second monitor, my windows resize and have their tops go behind the panel. This persists until ...
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Windows 11 File Explorer - New Shortcut With Custom Path On Taskbar - Opens New Icon On TaskBar
In windows 11 i created a new shortcut for File Explorer like below :
%SYSTEMROOT%\explorer.exe /e,W:\
After creating this shortcut i dragged & dropped it to taskbar.
Now when i click on it, It ...
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Want taskbar and Alt-Tab switcher to appear on two different monitors (Win 11)
I have two monitors- primary/landscape/central and secondary/portrait/to-the-left. I would like the Windows 11 taskbar permanently on the left monitor while keeping the alt-tab switcher on the central ...
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Windows 11 Taskbar disappears when switching between 1 monitor and 2 monitors, and switching primary monitors
I use both 1 and 2 monitors often, and I switch between the setups frequently. In this post, the larger 1440p monitor will be referred to as the LG, and the smaller 1080p one HP.
The Windows taskbar ...
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