Until Windows 7 came along, it was challenging at best to control what did and didn’t appear in the System Tray. It wasn’t uncommon to see a dozen or more icons littered down there.

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.

At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has ...

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By Googling “Windows changed all my icons,” I found an official Microsoft support page that mentions this can happen when the icon cache is not updated correctly. This has affected Windows XP ...

Windows 10 still features the OS's traditional desktop icons, and it's relatively easy to bring them back. Here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Jump Lists are a new feature in Microsoft Windows 7 that are designed to make it easier to find what you want and perform common operations associated with an application. As I’ve been working ...

Microsoft has started rolling out new icons for Windows 10 from among the 100 new designs it revealed in December. ... 500,000 NHS computers are still running Windows 7.

Catch up with this week's Microsoft news recap about a redesigned set of Office icons, some new taskbar features for Windows 11, fresh builds, cumulative updates, and more.

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