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Here’s How to Center Windows 10 Taskbar Icons Like Windows 11

Do you like how Windows 11 looks? Learn how you can center the Windows 10 Taskbar icons to imitate the Windows 11 Taskbar style.

By Sagar Naresh – Jul 3, 2021

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How to Restore Missing OneDrive Icon on Taskbar in Windows 10

The missing OneDrive icon on the Taskbar in Windows 10 means you can’t access OneDrive easily. Here’s how to restore the missing icon in the taskbar.

By Robert Zak – Jun 13, 2021

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How to Set Up Windows 10 Taskbar News and Interests Widget

Want to keep up with news, weather, and more from the taskbar? Find out more about the Windows 10 taskbar widget for news and interests.

By Crystal Crowder – May 20, 2021

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How to Maximize Screen Real Estate in Windows 10

If you are using a Windows device with a small screen, with a few easy tweaks, you can easily maximize your screen real estate in Windows 10.

By Ryan Lynch – Jan 18, 2021

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Customizing the Windows 10 Taskbar with TaskbarX

Do you wish you could do a little more with the Windows 10 taskbar? Learn how TaskbarX helps you customize the taskbar, including moving it.

By Crystal Crowder – Dec 11, 2020

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How to Turn Bluetooth On and Off in Windows 10

Microsoft changed its control panel layout. If you’re struggling to turn Bluetooth on and off on your Windows 10 PC, these are some easy fixes.

By Ryan Lynch – Aug 4, 2020

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How to Enable Last Active Click for Windows 10 Taskbar

Do you want the app icon in the taskbar to automatically open the last active window? Learn here how t enable the last active click in the Windows taskbar.

By Robert Zak – Jun 24, 2020

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3 Ways to Replace and Reduce Your Windows Desktop Shortcuts Clutter

Cluttering your desktop makes it difficult to find what you want. Here are a few ways you can replace and reduce your Windows desktop shortcut clutter.

By Tracey Rosenberger – May 1, 2020

How to Show or Hide Input Indicator and Language Bar in Windows 10

If you are using different languages on your Windows 10 machine, enabling the input indicator or language bar allows you to easily switch between languages.

By Vamsi Krishna – Jan 3, 2019

How to Disable Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10

By default, Windows will show a list of your recent items on the taskbar. Here’s how you can disable recent items and frequent places in Windows 10.

By Vamsi Krishna – Nov 9, 2018

How to Fix the Taskbar Not Hiding Issue in Windows 10

There are times when the taskbar doesn’t want to hide in Windows 10. If you have this issue, here are some ways for you to fix the taskbar not hiding issue.

By Fabio Buckell – Sep 20, 2018

How to Pin Custom Folders to the Taskbar in Windows

By default, Windows doesn’t allow you to pin custom folders to the taskbar except for File Explorer. Here’s a simple hack you can use to pin custom folders to the taskbar.

By Vamsi Krishna – May 24, 2017

How to Hide the Taskbar in Windows 10

The taskbar in Windows 10 is big and takes up a lot of screen real estate. Here’s how you can hide the taskbar in Windows 10 and other tips to customize it.

By Ryan Lynch – Feb 23, 2017

How to Move the Clock to Right-Most Corner on the Taskbar in Windows 10

In Windows 10 there are two different ways to move the clock to the right corner on the taskbar. Follow the one that suits your needs.

By Vamsi Krishna – Dec 27, 2016

How to Apply the Accent Color Only in Taskbar in Windows 10

Setting the accent color in Windows 10 will apply it to the Start menu, taskbar, title bar, etc. This trick will show you the way to apply the accent color to the taskbar only.

By Vamsi Krishna – Nov 9, 2016

How to Change Windows Taskbar Preview Time for Improved Performance

Do you feel that the preview thumbnail in Windows is taking too long to show up? Here’s a simple tweak for you to change the Windows taskbar preview time.

By Paul Ferson – Feb 11, 2015

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Windows 10 Hidden Features: Nay or Yay?

If you’ve been testing Windows 10, you might have found some of the hidden features while exploring the OS. Here are some of the hidden features we found.

By Maria Krisette Capati – Dec 2, 2014

Fix Duplicate Icons on Your Windows 7/8/8.1 Taskbar

You might come across duplicate icons in your Windows taskbar, some of which come with a (2) after its name. Here’s how to fix duplicate icons on Windows 7/8/8.1.

By Paul Ferson – Jul 15, 2014

How to Add Shutdown And Restart Options To The Taskbar Context Menu [Windows 8]

In Windows 8, you can right-click the bottom left-hand corner of your screen to get a context menu that takes you to places such as your task manager and control panel. In this tutorial, we will show you a way to add the shutdown and restart options to the taskbar context menu.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 9, 2013

How to Change the Windows 8 Taskbar Icons

Are you happy with the look of the icons on your Windows 8 taskbar? If not, there’s an easy way to change them to anything that you’d like.

By Charnita Fance – Feb 6, 2013

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ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

Stunning underwater shot of tiger sharks swimming among fish in the ocean depths.

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

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When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

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When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

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