Windows 7 only: Reader Jay wanted the Windows 7 taskbar to work more efficiently—so he rolled up his sleeves and figured out how to enable middle-clicking to close applications. Normally when you ...

Everyone digs the way you can pin stuff to the taskbar in Windows 7. It lets you open your most common programs without ever messing around in the Start menu, keeping everything right at your ...

Reader Noel just made the move to Windows 7, and a certain aspect of the OS is driving him crazy: “When I start an application (like Firefox, for example) from a pinned shortcut on the taskbar, the ...

Dick Frank unintentionally changed something in Windows 7 so that each window, rather than each application, gets its own taskbar icon. That’s too many icons. How does he change it back? One of the ...

My hat’s off to Within Windows blogger Rafael Rivera, who returned from last week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference and apparently didn't sleep until he figured out how Microsoft had ...

While we haven't yet gotten our hands on a Windows 7 build with the new taskbar, we did talk to Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky about the various UI changes and what we can expect at release time. It's ...

A feature of Windows 7 is that it will show you a preview, or small thumbnail image, of the open windows for a particular program when you hover over it. For example, if you have 3 Internet Explorer ...

It seems like every week we learn about a new tip to enhance the Windows 7 taskbar, and it's hard to keep them all straight. Here's the complete power user's guide to tweaking and using your taskbar ...

Sociologists say that multitasking has shortened our attention spans and made us more easily distracted than ever. The problem is especially noticeable on modern PCs, where it's possible to open ...

With Taskbar Color Effects, you can add Color, Background and Shadow Effects to the Windows 7 Taskbar. Once you run this portable freeware, it will add a Notification Icon to the Taskbar, which will ...

The taskbar in Windows 7 is quite useful but there's always room for improvement. Here's how you can add a shutdown button to the taskbar to make it easy to shutdown your Windows 7 computer.

Once past the fairly painless installation of the Windows 7 beta, Mac users will be struck with deja vu. This new version of Windows looks more like Mac OS X than any previous edition ever offered by ...