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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Windows's notification area doesn't allow to hide icons, when all are shown
I'm using the option to "Always show all icons in the notification are", because it is easier for me to see them on one line.
But, when that option is selected I can't choose anymore which ...
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Windows 10 Taskbar icons are taking over the Taskbar, cannot hide them
I got a new work laptop recently, it is a HP Elitebook running windows 10 64 bit (version 20H2). The windows taskbar notifications icons can normally be configured from the settings app such as:
I ...
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How do you right-click on Windows taskbar using keyboard shortcuts?
I often need to right-click on Windows taskbar to see Pinned or Recent items on IDEs or Microsoft Office. Is there a keyboard shortcut for this?
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Move Running Applications from Taskbar to System Tray
Hey there everybody so I have an apparently rare question.
I wish to take running programs and hide their icon from my taskbar while keeping them open on one desktop. For example; say I have my steam ...
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KDE Panel not fully visible on second screen
Using Ubuntu 18.04 with KDE installed, I tried to duplicate my taskbar panel. In theory it works, but the lower half is cut off and I can't see why that might be. Clicking in the free area beneat the ...
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Taskbar apps keep reappearing on start up despite unpinning them on Windows 10
Every time I boot my computer on Windows 10, Microsoft Word and Excel keep being pinned on the taskbar despite me having unpinned them before signing out.
I've tried changing the xml file located in %...
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How to remove or reduce delay of Windows 10 taskbar tooltips?
I'm using Windows 10, and I often need to hover over taskbar icons to read the tooltip to differentiate between the icons. For example, I have a lot of different Google Chrome profiles.
I really ...
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Kali Linux - Can't move or resize any window - Everything is stucked on topbar
I have the following problem.
I've logged into my account and suddenly, all windows and terminals have no taskbar anymore.
So I'm not able to move any windows. Can't even resize it.
Also, when I open ...
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Occasionally another app opens when i open some app
So actually it looks like this:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/wBVwG.jpg
After my last Windows fresh reinstall:
Almost constantly taskbar icons look like this (highlighted as active).
Usually when I try to ...
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taskbar icons (example: eject USB icon beside the clock) has disappeared. How do I bring it back?
as above. Also my search bar has disappeared at around the same time.
I have not updated my windows (I've changed the group policy so I have to manually download/install updates).
I've looked at ...
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I want to undo the auto-hide for the taskbar but my windows 10 pro is not activited
My Taskbar is in auto hide mode because I downloaded a application to auto hide it when I didn't know what that meant, once I pressed on auto hide and looked at it for some time I didn't want it and ...
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Fix broken app icons in taskbar when launched from Start Menu
Windows-1 64-bit Home, 20H2
I don't know whether this is an issue with any specific version of Windows, but since the 20H2 update I chose to remove all my apps pinned to the taskbar and pin them to ...
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How can I clear (declutter) notification bar history?
In Taskbar settings I see plenty notification bar programs I've uninstalled, I want to clear it. I can't find where this information stored. Neither global file search or registry search helped me.
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Still Microsoft Teams in Windows visual effects [closed]
I want to completely still Microsoft Teams visual effects outside of the app itself. How can I please do this?
With 'still' I mean that there shall be no visual effects whatever happens in my channels ...
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Windows 10: Thumbnails outline only are showing?
Recently on my Windows 10 Enterprise machine (Version 1809) my (pinned and non-pinned) taskbar thumbnails have stopped showing and only show an outline, this happens after a shutdown also. I have #6 ...
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How to pin .lnk files to taskbar in PowerShell?
I have seen many similar questions posted on stackoverflow.com, but this is different, and before you are wondering, why don't I post the question on stackoverflow.com? Because I am currently banned ...
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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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Main Taskbar (with searchbox) Showing Up on the Wrong Display
(Windows 10 Pro Build 19042.685)
The bar I am talking about is the taskbar that has the following on the leftmost side:
My main display is set to my middle monitor, and after setting the main display,...
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On Windows 10 taskbar, can I make multiple entries having different launch arguments to same exe?
One of the limitations of the post-xp Taskbar (and Start menu) is that the entries are keyed only on the exe file, and any exe can only have one entry. That means that unlike shortcuts, you can’t have ...
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In Windows 10, is there a way to configure the taskbar order to be the same as the order the windows appear?
By default on Windows 10, for a given program like Firefox, if you have 5 different windows of that program open, in the taskbar, when you hover over the icon, thumbnails for those windows show up in ...
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Location of Notification area icons size in RegEdit Windows10
I wonder if anybody has encountered with notification area icons size in Windows 10? Because after a Windows update the time panel under right-corner of screen
Before: https://i.stack.imgur.com/92BLg....
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Why is my keyboard not working after login with HP laptop?
On my HP laptop, why can't I use my keyboard and my right click cursor or click to any icon?
It also happens to my taskbar. I cannot click it at all. It happened after I logged in my account. Before ...
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How does windows store taskbar items?
In a question pertaining to windows 7, back from 2009 @Mikeon asks where windows stores taskbar data.
He mentions the filepath %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\...
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Possible to have different taskbars on different windows 10 desktops?
When creating different desktops in Windows 10 (Win+Tab) it seems you can only have one taskbar across all desktops.
Ideally, I want to have a personal desktop and a work one which have different ...
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Group different running program icons on taskbar in Windows 10
Imagine we have Skype and Symphony and Cisco Jabber running on Windows 10 PC.
Then in the taskbar we will have three separate icons
one for Skype
one for Symphony
one for Jabber
Q: Is it possible to ...
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kill explorer.exe for Windows 7 for kiosk for school student to use
Sorry, our school still using windows 7, I am running a simple flash application and auto shutdown in task scheduler for my windows 7.
I tried afew of Hide Taskbar Application but some how the taskbar ...
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Windows 10: How to change the bluetooth taskbar icon?
I prefer having my taskbar icons black and white, because it's clean and snazzy. Unfortunately, the blue Bluetooth icon ruins it for me. Is there any way to change the Bluetooth taskbar icon to one of ...
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Disable Windows 10 Taskbar App Preview Hover Bring to Front
In Windows 10, I would like the taskbar thumbnail to appear, but I do not want that app to be brought to the front when I hover over that preview. Where is the setting to customize this?
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Disable Flashing on Taskbar (Windows 10)
Sometimes programs will start flashing on the taskbar until I click on them. For example, when sticky notes opens on startup, I have to click on every note for it to stop flashing. Does anyone know of ...
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First icon gets hidden in taskbar notification area
I'm experiencing a bizarre issue with the taskbar notification area in Windows 10 1909. I only just noticed this issue but I have no idea how long it's been happening since I didn't pay too much ...
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Using Import-StartLayout gets the Taskbar icons out of order
I managed a fleet of Windows 10 workstations, including for some semi-public lab and classroom locations. One of the things I want to do is make it easier for people to log out. The "logout" ...
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Openvpn on Win 10 Laptop: Can I make it show a icon clearly to know it is connected to a VPN
I use OpenVPN sometimes to connect to my work network using Chrome from my Win 10 laptop.
But it is easy to forget that it is still connected to the VPN, later when using Chrome to browse. I mean the ...
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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 10 Taskbar Icons Blinking (Compressing)
Windows 10 Taskbar Icons Blinking (Compressing)
Symptoms:
The right-most icon on the Taskbar appears to compress to the left (as you look at the screen). The other icons then also bunch to the left. ...
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How to disable right click app icon and start on Taskbar in Win10
When right click app icon and start icon, the list will be shown.
Using "Remove access to the context menus for the taskbar" GPO can disable right click Taskbar Context Menu or using ...
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What causes icons in the Taskbar to become duplicated like this?
I have Krita installed on Windows 10. I have its icon pinned in the Taskbar.
In my "Start-up" dir, I have a shortcut to Krita.exe with the flag --load-session "stuff", in order ...
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How do I take care of Apps that need my attention in the Windows Taskbar?
I have an ultrawide setup, so usually I have two windows side by side at a time. Sometimes, especially with Zoom and Discord, I get many notifications. Whenever I get many messages or notifications ...
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Windows Taskbar not working after switching user (2 users are logged on at once)
I have a really odd problem with Windows 10 2004 (up to date): After switching to another user the taskbar isn't loaded correctly (it is not responding showing hour glas on hover).
What does not help:
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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 remove an icon from the system tray in Windows 10, with removing it from the system tray menu as well?
How do I remove an icon from the system tray in Windows 10, whilst removing it from the system tray menu as well?
You might tell me to use the Settings to open this screen.
But the problem with this ...
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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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Want see all opend windows windows (inclusive icon and name) in task bar of KDE Neon 5.16
i cant find my opened Windows in
KDE Desktop in Linux Distro
KDE Neon 5.16 (rebased on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS).
I simply want to see all open apps on taskbar, all my windows (not grouped or anything ...
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How to show quicklaunch bar on second monitor
I've got a quicklaunch folder setup and on my taskbar, but it will only show on the main taskbar. I would like it on both monitors. I tried dragging it much like moving the main taskbar to whatever ...
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How to get longer taskbar buttons?
By default, the buttons for opened applications on the taskbar look like this:
However, an odd thing happened. I have a laptop with a 4k screen. For work, I plug it into a dock which connects to ...
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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 to find full name & path of a program pinned to the taskbar?
Windows 10. Suppose I have several versions of a particular application installed. One of those versions is pinned to the taskbar. How can I determine the full name and path of the file that would ...
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Bring all explorer windows to front
Is there a smooth way to achieve that with a hotkey or change a setting?
My workflow problem is I am running fullscreen apps and using several instances of Explorer simultaneously to move files around ...
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Keep hidden taskbar in background of maximized windows
On earlier versions of Windows (up to 7, I believe) it was possible to configure the taskbar to stay in the background of maximized windows, in addition to the 'hide' option. Only pressing the windows ...
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Windows 10 Pro v2004: How do I get back Taskbar behavior from earlier windows versions
First thing: YES I searched for my problem, all I found were "Skins" or a way to get back the "Shortcut Bar" Which now ends up as a little arrow thingie on the right side of the ...
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How to stop tray notifications of past app crash every time I launch it?
Several days ago an app I was using crashed and I was offered the Win10 'send error report' dialogue box. I didn't want to so clicked the close button on the top right.
Ever since then, every time I ...
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