Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.

The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Windows 11's taskbar offers extensive customization for a personalized computing experience. Users can now easily adjust icon alignment, manage app visibility, and control system tray elements.

The taskbar is at the center of everything you do on Microsoft’s operating system—launching and closing apps, switching between windows, personalizing the desktop—and has been around in some form ...

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Microsoft has delivered some blows to Task Manager in recent times. As noted last week by PC Gamer's Andy Edser, the Windows team recently stamped out a bug that granted Task Manager immortality. The ...