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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How to pin either a Shortcut or a Batch file to the new Windows 7, 8 and 10 Taskbar and start menu?
We are having trouble adding our batch scripts to the Windows 7, 8 or 10 taskbar or start menu.
Our batchfiles take some arguments and just execute other application based on those arguments .
To ...
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Items unpinned from taskbar are back after restart/sign out on Windows 10
I have got a new installation of windows recently. Now when I do unpin items from taskbar that were there (IE, Edge, Explorer), they do come back after restart. A pinned chrome does not disappear ...
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Where is the list of pinned start menu and taskbar items stored in Windows 7
What is the location of pinned start menu and taskbar items?
Is this list a registry, or a folder somewhere?
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Display the taskbar clock on multiple screens in Windows?
Is it possible to display the clock on the taskbar on each screen in Windows 8, preferably without 3rd-party tools?
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Where are the shortcuts for the Windows 7 Taskbar stored on disk?
Where, in the Windows 7 file system, are the taskbar shortcuts stored (per user)?
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Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Highlight Sticks
After running Win 7 for some unknown period of time, the taskbar icon highlight starts to stick (video demo here: http://screencast.com/t/l5LhJ2uM). If I restart or kill explorer.exe and relaunch, it ...
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How to order windows of the same program on taskbar [duplicate]
I'm using Windows 8 and appreciate the ability to reorder my programs at will in the taskbar. However, for different windows of the same program - I have three Firefox windows, for instance - I can't ...
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Show the date on the System Tray in Windows 10
I have my Taskbar moved to the left side of the screen. How do I show the date below the clock on the system tray?
Windows 10 is quite new, so there isn't much on the internet about it.
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Local taskbar visible during remote desktop fullscreen
When I do remote desktop fullscreen connection on Windows 10 local host to Windows 7 remote host, the local task bar will not get covered by the RDP window as it used to be. It remains visible on top ...
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Is there any way to hide taskbar labels and not combine taskbar buttons?
There are three options for customizing taskbar buttons in Windows 7:
Always combine, hide labels
Combine when taskbar is full
Never combine
Is there any way to hide labels and not combine taskbar ...
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Arrange windows within the same application in the taskbar of Windows 7
Is there a way to arrange windows within the same application in the taskbar of Windows 7?
Right now we can freely adjust each application's position in the taskbar, but within the app itself the ...
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Any way to "ungroup" taskbar items in Windows?
I mostly like the improvements in Windows 7, but am pretty annoyed with the new Taskbar... particularly its habit of always keeping items grouped.
Is there any way to ungroup the taskbar items in ...
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How can I disable flashing icons on Windows 7 taskbar?
I set my Windows 7 taskbar to auto-hide. However, sometimes when a program changes or something new happens in a program, the taskbar will show its self, and its respective taskbar icon will begin ...
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How can I get the system tray on my second monitor?
Whenever I play games, those will always launch on the main monitor.
Since the system tray where the clock is located is only displayed on the taskbar on the main monitor, I can't see what time it is ...
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Prevent Internet Explorer tabs from opening tabs in stack in taskbar
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, and IE 8, and have the taskbar in icon view. I'm not sure how to explain this, but I'm amazed at how each tab in IE8 seems to act like a new "thing" in the taskbar (as if ...
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Window in focus doesn't minimize when I click on its icon in the taskbar (Windows 10)
After applying the anniversary update, Windows 10 decided it was okay to change various settings for me. I've reversed some of the changes but one persists and I can't seem to find where to fix it.
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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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Show corresponding icons for each monitor on task bar
I'm working with several monitors in Windows 10.
When I have one software window in particular monitor, its task bar icon appears on all monitors. I would like to see MS Word icon only on monitor ...
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How to start a program as administrator through a pinned to taskbar shortcut, through one of the "recent" files
I'll try to explain my situation:
I am a developer and use Visual Studio. I always want to run Visual Studio as administator. I have pinned a shortcut to the task bar and in its properties set it to ...
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Icon Adobe Reader DC on taskbar is wrong
My icon adobe reader is now icon of Windows Photo Viewer on Taskbar.
How can I fix it?
I tried to uninstall or repair but it didn't work.
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Windows 11, taskbar corner overflow, show all tray icons
In Windows 11 there seem to be no (standard/user-friendly) way to set the option of always showing all the tray icons (Taskbar corner overflow, as it is now called in Settings). It only allows you to ...
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Why does the Outlook taskbar envelope icon sometimes remain active, even if I have no unread email?
Outlook has a nice envelope icon that displays on top of the taskbar icon when I have new mail. Sometimes this icon comes up when I get a new message, but then doesn't go away when the message is ...
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How can I force stop a program without using the mouse in Windows 10?
I'm trying to debug a Visual Studio C# Windows application that immediately takes over the desktop and disables mouse control. When it freezes, I need to be able to stop it somehow. I can press the ...
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How can I restart my taskbar?
Occasionally the clock in the notification area of the taskbar stops working. If I hover over it I can see the analog clock view is correct but the digital readout is frozen. Today I tried to hide the ...
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Firefox - always show the tabs in fullscreen mode
Full screen can be more fun if I can always see my tabs (by default you can see when you hover your mouse around that area) and my taskbar.
I know how to make taskbar always appear. Any idea how to ...
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Some taskbar pinned icons are duplicated when an instance of the application is running
For some applications that I pin to the taskbar, the icon gets duplicated when an instance of the application is running.
For example, in the screen shot below you see there are two icons for ...
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A Windows clock to show both UTC and local time?
I'm working on windows 7 x64 and searching for a way for a setting, or replacement app of, the tray clock (on the taskbar corner) to display both UTC (or GMT) and my local time.
Cause: I read log ...
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How to fix missing icons in the taskbar and start menu? [duplicate]
I installed Visual Studio 2012 yesterday and during the install my path somehow got screwed up1. Since then, the icons for applications that are part of Windows are the default "unknown" icon, but ...
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Where are the task bar icons stored on Windows 10
I've looked in %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar as recommended by this answer for Windows 7, but I don't see a "User Pinned" folder.
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Where do I right-click to get the taskbar menu when the taskbar is full?
On Window 10, I want to right-click on the taskbar to get the taskbar menu -- usually I do this by right-clicking on an empty space on the taskbar. However, where can I click when my taskbar is ...
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How do I get the Windows 7 taskbar with the Start Menu to display on dual monitors? [closed]
I am looking for an application with features as follows:-
It will give me a dual monitor set
up with a Windows 7 taskbar
with Aero peek and the Start Menu on each
monitor.
The taskbar should ...
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How can I hide an application from the Windows taskbar?
Is there a way to "hide" a normal windowed application in Windows?
I'm looking for something that removes it from the taskbar and possibly puts an icon in the system tray instead.
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How can I increase the size of the pinned jump list in Windows 7?
I use Notepad++ for a bunch of text files. I like to pin my frequently used text files to the Notepad++ icon on the taskbar. There seems to be a limit of 18 items visible. I can pin more than 18 ...
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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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Is there a way to move the taskbar to another monitor?
I am using Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 and three monitors. I would like for my taskbar to be moved to the third monitor. How can I get it over there instead of on my primary monitor?
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Getting taskbar with clock (notification area) on second monitor with Windows 10
My Windows 10 updated itself this morning and now the notification area (the rightmost part of the taskbar with clock) will only appear on the laptop monitor. The past several weeks it was happily ...
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Is there any way to make taskbar icons bigger in Windows 10?
So after Windows 10 installation I've noticed that icons in taskbar became a significant bit smaller than they were in Windows 7/8 while taskbar height stayed the same, here's the comparison:
The ...
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Windows 10 taskbar | how to make it thinner when vertical?
I have 14" 16:9 notebook and would like my Windows 10 taskbar have on the (left) side. Unfortunately, although I set it to small icons the bar is pretty wide. Do not you know how to make it thinner?
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Is there a Windows 8 shortcut to display the taskbar?
In Windows 7, Win can be used to raise an auto-hidden taskbar. In Windows 8, Win overwrites the entire screen with the Start Screen.
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Windows 8 to display the Taskbar ...
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How do I rearrange pinned taskbar items?
I just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and I can no longer rearrange items in the "pinned lists" of my taskbar items:
In Windows 7, all I had to do was drag an item to a new location ...
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Why is it faster to restore applications from System Tray than from the Taskbar?
Some applications, don't actually exit when closing them. Instead, they keep on running the background. Applications known for this are
Discord
Telegram Desktop
Steam
When in this state, trying to ...
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Always show windows CPU monitor graphic in taskbar
I would like to always show the windows CPU usage graphic in the taskbar near the system clock as it does when the task manager is open. Is there a way to make it always show with no more intervention ...
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Reorder Windows 7 taskbar items [duplicate]
It seems like Microsoft goofed up again and did not include a feature in Windows 7 to order taskbar items. To clarify, you can now order the groups, but not the items within the groups.
So let's say ...
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Windows 7 - display date using small icons
I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and need the date displayed with the time. This works, but only if I use large icons in the taskbar settings which is quite ugly.
How do I display the time and date ...
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Google Chrome pinned to Windows 7 taskbar not opening under pinned icon
I have both Google Chrome and Eclipse pinned to my taskbar in Windows 7 64-Bit. However, when I launch these programs, they don't appear to open under the pinned taskbar icon
Eclipse behaves ...
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How to show seconds on the Windows 10 tray clock
How do I show seconds on the Windows tray clock? I've tried the advanced options in the control panel, but I'm not sure how do I do it. Is it like hh:mm:ss or is it something else?
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Windows 10 virtual desktops - preserve taskbar order
Is there a way to preserve the taskbar order while switching between virtual desktops in Windows 10? The order resets on my PC every time, and that's very annoying.
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Remove "Show Desktop" button next to the clock in Windows 7
Windows 7 has a new "Show Desktop" button all the way at the edge of the system tray area. Is there any way to get rid of it?
I never use it because I just press Win+D instead, and it's kind of ...
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Make Google Chrome "Application" Windows Use High-Quality Icons in Windows 7
Whenever I use Google Chrome's "Create Application" shortcut (which I heavily use, and recommend), the icons shown on the Windows 7 taskbar are really blurry, probably the result of the 16x16 favicon ...
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Bring to front all windows for a certain application in Windows 7
Trying to find some key+click combination to bring all windows for a given application to the top of z-order. For example, I have several Putty terminal windows open in the stacked taskbar icon and I ...