Most of the time, the search bar or icon is hidden, and you may feel as though if it is missing. So follow the tips to enable and show the Search bar or icon. Lastly – there is a better way to access ...

Title bar window shake (Aero shake) is a feature in Windows that allows you to maximize or minimize all open windows by grabbing and shaking one window. You just need to grab the window by the title ...

Q: In the 05/02/15 Mailbag (“What happened to my favorites?“), you didn’t answer the second question, how to restore the toolbar at the top that lets Alice (and all of us) copy and paste things.

Aside from bringing its Xbox games over to the PC, the Game Bar is arguably the best gesture Microsoft’s made to Windows 10 gamers. It adds a tiny bit of console-esque simplicity to the PC, letting ...

At first, YASB might feel like someone took the Windows taskbar, moved it to the top, and gave it a makeover. What makes this menu bar useful, though, is the widget support. You can add widgets that ...

Say good-bye to the Charms Bar on the Windows 10 desktop Your email has been sent Greg Shultz takes a look at where the controls that used to appear on the Charms Bar have gone in Windows 10. In ...

The Charms bar is persona non grata in Windows 10. So how do you use and navigate the OS without it? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's ...

Microsoft Paint now has a new toggle that lets you hide the toolbar automatically on Windows 11, so you can focus on the canvas.

Microsoft's Windows Live effort has been a bit of a confusing mishmash of products from the start. Was it merely a rebranding of existing products, such as MSN Messenger? Or was it simply a marketing ...

Just hours after an early build of Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system leaked we’re starting to get a good idea of how the latest version of Windows is shaping up. Intrepid users have already ...

Microsoft has redesigned the taskbar for Windows 7, hoping to make it less cluttered and easier to use than Vista's. It features larger icons and the ability to pin new applications to it, but the ...