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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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Windows 11 Apps Icons Broken [duplicate]

The taskbar can't display my UWP apps (Windows apps like Photo/Media player, but not the apps I installed) properly, as shown: Taskbar glitch (This is supposed to be the app "Movie and TV") ...
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show/hide specific icon on windows notification area with command line

How to make a icon appear/hide on the notification area of taskbar (may be as known as system tray) with command line? Like what I can do with the following UI: I thought it could be somewhere under ...
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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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How to make Command Prompt windows use Alt-Tab correctly

I'm currently using Windows 11. I often use Alt-Tab to go back and forth between windows. I have Command Prompt pinned to my taskbar. When I click on it, it opens a new command prompt. However, if I ...
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Avoid the user to click the Windows start button in the taskbar after login

After the user logs in on Windows 10, explorer.exe is loaded. The Windows Start button in the taskbar is visible and clickable. Any script or executable ran at startup to hide the taskbar, does so too ...
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EXE on a network drive - how to create a shortcut on taskbar?

I've created a .bat file that runs the network exe, but it does not allow it to be made a shortcut on the taskbar: Within my runme.bat file: cmd /c start w:\programs\app.exe That does not work. I've ...
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How for an app to change its taskbar hover text or snapped window title?

What's the proper keyword for the line "how to change hover text tas..." in this image? For now let me temporarily call it snapped window title - SWT. At the same time, when we hover the ...
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How to show taskbar without showing start menu?

In case where you are fullscreen, doing some work and suddenly have to jump to the taskbar to switch to another program or to use a utility which resides in system tray menu. Pressing Start or Ctrl+...
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Background of Windows 11 taskbar icons like in Windows 10

It's somewhat hard for me to discern Windows 11 opened vs. non-opened apps, because the taskbar icons background is not as salient as it was in Windows 10. Also, alerts are hard to see. Question: Is ...
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Program/shortcut for "Move window to this monitor" - Windows 10 / 11

Is there a shortcut / right click option, or a program that adds shortcut / GUI option, to move a window to the current monitor? I know I can hover on a program on the taskbar, right click the little ...
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Windows 10: Is there any way to increase the width of the clock in a horizontal taskbar?

I haven't changed anything (that I know of), but now my horizontal taskbar clock only shows a time. I want it to show a date. I've been reading articles that tell you how to fix this problem by ...
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How do I shrink the space in between the icons the tray icon panel on my taskbar?

How do I shrink the space in between each icon on the taskbar's hidden tray icon panel when clicking the angle button? Currently it looks like this: I want it to look something like this (...
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How do I get Visual Studio Code to show its icon on the taskbar in Windows 10?

Here's Visual Studio code in Windows explorer - note the icon And here it is in the taskbar, when I right-clicked it. It never has its own icon on the taskbar, even if I don't right click - I only ...
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Windows 7 taskbar, create popup menus?

Is there a way in Windows 7 to create a single icon that pops up with a menu? I'm used to having True Launch Bar installed, but at the moment it doesn't integrate with the new taskbar/shortcut bar of ...
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Remote desktop: Fullscreen is limited to the resolution of my primary monitor. How can I get a full screen rdp session on my second (bigger) screen?

I have 2 monitors, unfortunately one is smaller than the other. I want to use the 1920x1200 monitor for a fullscreen RDP session (this is where I do my main work). And I would like to use the ...
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Taskbar partially missing in Windows 10?

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and I have a dual monitor set up. In the past, both screens shows the same desktop/taskbar and I can access the taskbar from either screen. Just recently I noticed ...
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Clicks outside active window aren't registering ONLY for certain apps

I am running Windows 10 version 22H2. Let's say I have Firefox or Discord open. I want to switch to a different window in the taskbar, or un-maximize the Firefox/Discord window and click on something ...
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Change position of Start Menu in Windows 10 when Taskbar is on left edge

I am currently experimenting with stacked dual-monitor setup, and I find it most convenient when my taskbar is positioned on the left edge of the screen. However, in this case the start menu appears ...
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How to rearrange windows in Windows 10 taskbar

How to rearrange the taskbar's windows location in the taskbar? When my chrome browser restarts, it randomizes the Windows arrangement and since I use a lot of windows and tabs, it gets really ...
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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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How to remove the Desktop 1 / New Desktop icon from Windows 11 taskbar?

There is this annoying and useless icon pinned to the Windows 11 taskbar that I cannot figure out how to remove: When I hover over it, it shows "Desktop 1" and "New desktop". I ...
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How to revert the new Windows 10 search icon?

Back in May somewhere, all my laptops automatically updated Windows 10. I immediately got disgusted by the look of the new search icon on my taskbar: I can't stand the look and size of this icon, it ...
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Any way to change icons of Chrome shortcuts pinned to taskbar? (Windows 10)

I have a bunch of websites "saved as shortcuts" from Chrome, and pinned to taskbar. But I would like to customize the taskbar icons, e.g., to distinguish Outlook Mail from Calendar: How do ...
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The tasks items of Chrome shortcut on taskbar don't work

It appears after i reset my windows in settings. They are actually "new window" and "New Incognito window", but it seems that they could not be found. How to fix or just remove ...
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Handling Windows 11 UX with the taskbar on the bottom?

On Win10, I have the taskbar on the left (vertical). With Win11's taskbar on the bottom, there are these issues: with my monitor above my laptop, it's hard to open the taskbar on the monitor because ...
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Seconds in taskbar gone after update KB5027231

A few months back, Windows 11 got an update that allowed you to show seconds in the taskbar clock like you could in Windows 10 and previous versions. It worked fine for a while, but when the ...
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Apps pinned to taskbar don't start anymore

There doesn't seem to be any problems with windows store apps, but for regular apps (e.g. File Explorer, Firefox), pinning them to the taskbar creates the shortcut (.lnk file) in %AppData%\Microsoft\...
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Windows 10 - unable to click on anything (desktop, taskbar, etc.) - but explorer.exe is not frozen

This seems to happen intermittently. I'm not longer to able to click on the taskbar or running programs like Chrome. They respond to keyboard commands and shortcuts (windows key etc) but mouse ...
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Is there a more direct keyboard shortcut to cascade windows?

Windows: 10 Keyboard: Windows - 104 - standard layout keyboard When windows are displaying off-screen due to changing displays or display configurations, I have found that the best means to get them ...
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How to fix broken taskbar icons in Windows 7

I have a program pinned to the taskbar. After I upgraded the program (I think) the icon broke. What I get now is what you see below; that ugly default application icon thing. If I unpin it, I get the ...
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How do I get outlook to show me emails I have flagged from my personal inbox as well as the shared inbox?

Could someone please advise on how I can get my to do bar on outlook to show all emails I have flagged within my own inbox as well as only the emails I have flagged in the shared inbox in the taskbar ...
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Possible to change the behavior of double-clicking a minimized taskbar button?

In Windows, double-clicking a minimized taskbar button shows the application window. Is it possible to change that behavior to instead show, then minimize the application window? Edit It's likely the ...
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Windows 10 Taskbar: Avoid Grouping/Combining of Windows if application was started using different shortcuts

I've got two shortcuts on my desktop for the same application. Shortcut 1 opens the application without any additional start parameters, while shortcut 2 does have several start parameters. However ...
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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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Restarting explorer does not restore taskbar

I've been having a really annoying problem with explorer in Windows 7. Sometimes I need to restart explorer, for example to help testing software I'm developing. I know I can stop explorer.exe (...
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How do I make my taskbar icons/items this small?

No matter what I try, it just won't work. I even tried changing the taskbar icons' size from the registry editor, but it won't make them this small.
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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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Changing behavior of icons pinned to taskbar when clicked

When an application is pinned to the taskbar, an icon is placed at the left side of the taskbar. My preference is for those icons to act as a launcher, opening a new window of that application in a ...
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Windows 11 - Taskbar icons missing under specific user account

Several questions have dealt with that error, but none of the solutions have worked for me. Some taskbar icons disappeared at some point a couple of days ago and nothing brings them back. The problem ...
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Is it possible to reverse the orientation of the taskbar items on Windows?

Is it possible to reverse orientation, like in the image below? taskbar reoriented image
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Customize Taskbar Icon based on light vs dark theme

I manage a fleet of around 250 workstations. We have a custom app for many of our users that we pin to the taskbar by default. The icon is designed to mimic the style of some of the built-in Windows ...
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Always show taskbar in Windows 11

If I maximize the web browser or other applications, it covers the taskbar as in the first screenshot: In the settings, I un-checked Automatically hide the taskbar as in the second screenshot: I ...
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Is it possible to have certain apps only show up only in their respective virtual desktops?

I want a virtual desktop with VS Code, Firefox, and Spotify but I don't want the those applications to show on my other VD's task bar. Sorry if this isn't the right forum for this.
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How to change theme/background settings in Windows 10 automatically or with one click?

Question background: I set my background to slideshow that changes every 10 minutes. It also choose the accent color automatically from my background and show the accent color on start, taskbar, and ...
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Windows 10 Taskbar is not "Always on Top"

My taskbar does not stay on top of applications, even when they are not full screen. As you can seen in the cropped screenshot below, the non-maximized windows are on top of the taskbar. All ...
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Windows 10 desktop does not react on icon mouseover in the first minutes of RDP connection

I connect to a Windows 10 PC (the host) over RDP from a Ubuntu Linux machine (the client). On the Linux machine, I mostly use remmina, but I experience the same problem with xfreerdp as well. This is ...
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Windows 10 shows recent items when right-clicking in the taskbar, but then says it can't find them

For months and months now, I have been unable to reopen recently-opened filed from MS Word via the taskbar. I can see the files there when I right-click them, but every time I try to click on the ...
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How to use icon for pinned batch script while it is running

Using a shortcut I am able to set an icon for a batch program and pin it to the taskbar. However, when I click the icon and the program opens it does not show the shortcut icon as running, it instead ...
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Windows 7 Taskbar Never Combine, Show Labels Only, No Icon

In Windows 7, in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties, there is an option to Never Combine which shows both an icon and accompanying text. I have seen people who want Never Combine but want no labels....
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windows 11: can I put the taskbar on the left side of the monitor?

In Windows 10, it was easy to make it so the taskbar is "parked" on the left-hand side of the monitor. When Windows 11 first came out, I noticed this was no longer possible. I figured it was ...

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