Windows 7 only: Reader Jay wanted the Windows 7 taskbar to work more efficiently—so he rolled up his sleeves and figured out how to enable middle-clicking to close applications. Normally when you ...

Windows 7 only: If you're not into Windows desktop gadgets, there is another way to easily monitor your computer's CPU and RAM: Taskbar Meters puts simple, attractive resource monitors right on your ...

Sociologists say that multitasking has shortened our attention spans and made us more easily distracted than ever. The problem is especially noticeable on modern PCs, where it's possible to open ...

Improve your PC’s view with this free program to enhance multiple monitors. MultiMon Taskbar Free is an application that places a simple, basic taskbar on your secondary monitor, or even on two ...

My hat’s off to Within Windows blogger Rafael Rivera, who returned from last week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference and apparently didn't sleep until he figured out how Microsoft had ...

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. How does he change it back? One of the ...

Finally, a tool that lets you pin any item - be it a file, a folder or anything else - to the Windows 7 taskbar in a quick and easy way However, there are still some restrictions that we could do ...

One of Windows 7’s niftier new features is an improved Taskbar, but it wasn’t included in the pre-beta build of the operating system just distributed at the PDC. I’ve got a video of it in action, ...

One of the best sites around for inside Windows 7 information is from Microsoft themselves – the Engineering Windows 7 blog. In their latest posting, they give an in depth look at the new Taskbar by ...