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 11 jumplist is extremely slow
My jumplist for all the programs pinned on my taskbar is extremely slow. I'm running a new Windows 11 22H2 laptop.
All Office app and also other apps are affected.
I tried deactivating the flag in ...
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Cannot resize taskbar icons anymore in Windows 11
Some Windows 11 updates reset taskbar icon size, truly annoying.
Before I managed to revert to small taskbar icons through registry, but now the latest update finally broke it completely, it does not ...
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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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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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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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Custom taskbar icon layout aesthetics
Today I realized I can add a custom taskbar to Windows which would be a folder full of shortcuts to common tasks.
I created the folder, added the taskbar, and thought 'eh this could be pretty nice'.. ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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?
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It's likely 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How to change theme/background settings in Windows 10 automatically or with one click?
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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 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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Can I reorder (unstick) side-by-side icons on the taskbar in Windows 11?
The Windows 11 taskbar has two "features" that are driving me crazy. The first is that it groups icons of the same task together into a single icon that you have to hover over. This ...
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Stacking taskbar and toolbars horizontally
I went to my cousin today and when I played on his PC I found the way he organized his taskbar very practical but forgot to ask him how he did it (and he never answers messages).
Basically he has no ...
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Windows 11 using Task Scheduler to change the Windows light/dark theme EXACTLY like how Settings would do it
Since Windows 11 doesn't have the light/dark theme depending on time of day, I decided to implement one through Task Scheduler. Basically at certain times, I'd change the binary values of
Computer\...
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Make taskbar visible whilst fullscreen
I want my taskbar to be visible whilst watching twitch, both by default and also I'd like to know how to toggle between visible and invisible, ideally just by using a keyboard shortcut. Are these ...
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Random black background "overlay" blocks Windows 10 search popup background
As shown on the screenshot, I have issue within this Windows installation which is related to dark background appearing inside the search popup and blocking the view. It sometimes is as low as on the ...
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How do I pin a remote desktop connection to the taskbar win Windows 10?
This question asks about pinning a Remote Desktop Connection to the task bar in Windows 7. The methods given in the answers no longer work in Windows 10, at least not the way I want them to.
I want to ...
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Windows 11: How to open Last active window on taskbar for Chrome
I have multiple Chrome windows open. Every time I go to another application and come back to Chrome by clicking on it in the taskbar or using Alt+Tab, the last created window is opened.
It's very ...
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Windows 11 - explorer.exe randomly crashing when shift right-clicking on taskbar
If I shift+right click (re-enabled functionality via registry) an icon in my taskbar, explorer.exe randomly crashes and restarts, killing all my open explorer-windows which is kinda annoying. After ...
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How can I get a list of my most used programs on Windows?
I've decided to embrace pinning my most used programs onto the taskbar.
Obviously I can just trawl through the Start Menu and pick out the ones I think I use a lot, but is there any way that Windows ...
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Is there a simple way to AUTOMATE adding a program to the start menu and pin to taskbar
To clarify, this is different than all the other similar questions for several reasons. For one, I'm building a program that is supposed to be compatible with Win7-Win11 and so I need the tool I build ...
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How to display app icons on second monitor?
I just updated from Windows 10 to Windows 11 today (a few minutes ago).
I have all of these icons at the bottom right corner of my main screen. Before the upgrade, I could just drag the taskbar from ...
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windows 11 broke Win+0, Win+1, etc. style shortcuts
I have a number of common apps pinned to specific locations on my Windows taskbar, so that I can open or switch to these apps by using the Win + 0 or Win + 1 style key combinations. These worked ...
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Windows taskbar - change text displayed for minimized windows?
Working in Windows 10. I often have a number of minimized windows of Windows Explorer, opened to various network folders.
On the taskbar, the minimized windows show with the familiar yellow Windows ...
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Windows 10 taskbar | how to move start button DOWN when vertical?
I have ultrawide screen and would like my Windows 10 taskbar have on the (right) side.
Already found a solution to make it thinner (7+ taskbar advanced options), but still looking for ANY working ...
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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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MobaXterm disapears from taskbar in Windows 11 after moving window
My System:
Windows 11 Pro (V10.0.22621 Build 22621)
Dual monitor
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti (mobile) - Driver version (517.00)
CPU: Intel i9-12900HX
MobaXterm Version: v23.0 - Build 5042
Issues:
There'...
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How to disable Windows 11 taskbar tooltips?
I have windows 11 and am using startallback. startallback is an alternate UI for Win 11 designed to restore classic UI elements "from Windows 7, Windows 10 and third-party taskbar and start menu ...
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Windows 11 taskbar shows only in black color without using any dark theme or softwares...how to resolve this?
My Win 11 taskbar only shows a completely black color. I have used many software to change it but to no avail. Also I did all the recommended settings to fix it but got no result.
How can I resolve ...
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How to hide name of tab in taskbar Chrome / Brave
Due to privacy, I want to hide the tab name in the Windows taskbar.
Now it appears like this:
I want it to say just "Google Chrome", not also Youtube.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks.
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What's this rabbit doing in the corner of the Windows 10 search bar? [duplicate]
I just recently installed Windows Subsystem for Linux on my PC which is running Windows 10 22H2, and after rebooting notice this 'rabbit' in the corner of the search box. Clicking it just brings up ...
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How to fix task bar auto showing on windows 11 - due to application 'needing attention'
The problem I see (with taskbar auto hide on) is that the task bar shows for applications that 'need attention' - and then won't hide again.
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Some Quick Launch items are not displayed on the task bar
I just had a look at my task bar shortcuts folder (%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar) and found that many items appear multiple times there (e.g. "Firefox&...
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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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Win+Number sometimes doesn't properly render preview above the taskbar
I am accustomed to switching windows on Windows 11 using the Win+Number shortcut. When there are multiple instances of the same app open, a preview usually opens, where pressing the same number again ...
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