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Mozilla’s stable channel just received a substantial refresh: Firefox 143 lands with Microsoft Copilot available inside the AI sidebar, experimental Google Lens visual search, Windows taskbar web‑app pinning, and a batch of security fixes that administrators and power users should install right...

Firefox’s latest release delivers the kind of practical Windows-focused refinements power users have been asking for — and a high-profile AI tie‑in that will keep privacy wonks and enterprise admins debating for weeks. Background / Overview Mozilla’s rapid-release cadence means the browser you...

Raycast’s Windows beta already improves two of the most frequently used — and often frustrating — pieces of Windows input: the emoji picker and the clipboard history, delivering smoother search, persistent storage, and a more keyboard-centric workflow that will matter to power users and...

WinGet has quietly become one of the most practical productivity tools in a Windows 11 power user's toolbox — not just for installing apps, but for managing whole system states, enforcing upgrade policies, and automating maintenance. A recent MakeUseOf piece showed four simple WinGet workflows —...

Microsoft’s Windows Insider program delivered a compact but meaningful set of user-facing improvements during the first half of August 2025, focused squarely on UI consolidation, cross-device convenience, and tightening the long-running migration of legacy Control Panel functionality into the...

Windows 11 File Explorer navigation pane allows for some folders to be pinned, but not others. It allows desktop to be pinned, but not documents folder, pictures folder. I have changed several settings many times, but it does not fix it.

Hi I want to add a couple of folders to the screen that opens when I click on the start button. I.E. Healthy Kidney Recipes, etc. that I want to use regularly, that's what happens when you're 83. I've tried saving the folder on Drive C:\ as Start Menus Folder and then clicking on it and...

In Windows 11, apps don't automatically get added to your desktop. Learn how to pin apps to your desktop or taskbar. Continue reading...

After I updated on 8/5/2019 all apps pinned to the taskbar were removed and I am no longer able to pin an app to the taskbar. Is there any way of restoring my ability to pin apps to the taskbar?

Greetings :) When I expand recent files in Notepad or Excel via startmenu and click the "Pin to this list" or "Unpin from this list" nothing happens. Interestingly, this is only the case for certain programs (Notepad and Excel so far) while others (Wordpad, Firefox, Paint.NET) have the correct...

Q. Is there not a way to adjust the default icon for Control Panel, NOT as a shortcut but from the actual original desktop icon in Themes> Desktop Icons? It seems to be the only one that you cannot change the default icon for. I'm wondering if there might be a reghack specific to Windows 10 that...

Edge has all of a sudden disappeared from my taskbar and I'm not getting the option to pin it back on..Same applies when I try and drag it on, it wont let me...No problem with pin to start menu.

Hi I'm trying to pin a Sound Control Panel link to my task bar. I can create a link on my desktop but it won't let my drag it to the task bar. I want to do this so that it's visible when I have some music and video apps open because I have to switch my sound back and forth from my Desktop...

Microsoft Edge allows you to pin your favorite websites to the Windows 10 Start Screen. read more Continue reading...

One of the favorite Mail features from Windows Phone 8,1 has finally made its way to Windows 10 Mobiles Outlook Mail app. read more Continue reading...

Is there a way to Pin to taskbar "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Recovery\Advanced Recovery Methods" . Thank you

Someone in another forum asked if there was a way to have constant, fingertip, access to All Control Panel Items rather than just the Category view. Thought I would share my answer to them w/ y'all out of general interest. I have found a way to have the All Control Panel Items permanently on...

There is something that has come as part of 8.1.1 that I wonder how many are aware of it or how nice it is. Traditionally or historically we have been accustom to Desktop & Taskbar. Not long ago came the ability to Pin things to Taskbar. Recently, that came to include the ability to Pin Store...

I sure do like (NOW) being able to Pin Store APPs to the Taskbar AND (NOW) together w/ having the Taskbar on all screens, w/ you @ all times, as it should be; only makes sense, really. I would like to see a 'Cog' icon on the Taskbar. It would give Settings but, dedicated, proprietary, same as...

This is, actually, a 2-parter... 1. w/ the Update (8.1.1) can, now, opt to have Store icons on the Task Bar. 2. There is, as w/ anything in this context, the ability to 'pin' these to the Task Bar. That said... Active APPs will sit on the Switcher Bar, true enough. However, after a time, the...