Lots of open app windows reduce the amount of space on your taskbar. Instead of closing the app windows, you can temporarily remove them with various software packages. Among those packages is Magic Boss Key, a software which enab...
Have you ever wished that there was an easy way for you to minimize some of your apps to the system tray? Well look no further, it doesn’t get any simpler than with Trayconizer. COMPATIBILITY The developer states that this a...
The Windows 7 taskbar doesn’t have a huge amount of transparency, even with the Windows Aero themes. Yet we can still enhance the transparency of the taskbar with Taskbar Transparency. That’s a portable application with which you ...
To hide the Windows taskbar, you would usually right-click on it and select Properties. Selecting the Auto-hide the taskbar option then removes it from the bottom of the desktop. However, with additional software packages we can t...
Microsoft’s most notable addition to Windows 7 was perhaps the new taskbar. It gave us minimized window icons and options that pin programs to the taskbar. As the minimized windows are square, you can fit more of them on the...
You can pin almost anything to the Windows 7 taskbar. That includes the Windows 7 Start menu Shut down button. Thanks to the awesome JumpControl utility we can add a shutbutton to the taskbar from which to select its various optio...
The Windows Vista Quick Launch bar, which can also be added to Windows 7, gives you a tool for quickly launching software. What it lacks are options to group and organize those shortcuts, and so the Quick Launch bar can get a litt...
The Windows Update shortcut is on the Windows 7 Start menu. You can click on that shortcut to check for Windows 7 updates. However, the shortcut cannot be pinned to the taskbar unless you edit its target properties. First, you sho...
Those who usually open multiple software applications, in Windows 7, should install Windows 7 App Launcher. That’s a utility with which you can open multiple software packages at once with a hotkey or Windows 7 Jump Lists. With th...
Jump Lists were among the best new additions to Windows 7. They added another shortcut option, but you cannot combine multiple applications in one Jump List. That is unless you add Jumplist Launcher to Windows 7/8. Jumplist Launch...
The Windows Vista Quick Launch bar added small shortcuts icons to the left of the taskbar. Windows 7 phased out the Quick Launch bar with pinned taskbar shortcuts, but you can still restore it on Windows 7. A little customization ...
Windows Vista’s and 7’s desktops do not include a shortcut to My Computer by default. The closest thing is a Start Menu My Computer shortcut. However, you can still add a My Computer shortcut to the Windows 7 taskbar and des...
The Windows Taskbar is located at the bottom of the screen and includes the Start/Windows button, pinned programs, list of currently running programs and the notification area. In the default configuration, a user is able to drag ...
Windows 7 Jump Lists were among the great new additions to Windows 7. With them you can open recent files or start a common task. However, not all apps include fully featured Jump Lists. Nevertheless, you can still add custom Jump...
Stacks are something that the Apple Mac OS X includes. They stack files and shortcuts into small organized folders on the dock. Windows doesn’t have dock; we have the taskbar. However, Windows has yet to embrace such a featu...
