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Microsoft is replacing the long‑standing Windows 11 taskbar Search box with a Copilot chat box, folding traditional Windows Search into a conversational, multimodal Copilot experience that will surface chat, local file and app search, and quick access to Copilot Vision and Voice directly from...

Hiding the Windows 11 taskbar is quick and usually reliable, but when auto-hide misbehaves it can be maddening — disappearing when you don’t want it to, or refusing to hide at all. This guide walks through every practical method I use on Windows 11 (including build 25H2), explains why auto-hide...

For years the little clock on a secondary display was a tease — visible but mute — and with the September 29, 2025 preview update Microsoft finally restored the ability to open the Notification Center and calendar flyout from any monitor in a multi‑monitor Windows 11 setup, delivering a...

Windows 11’s newest features read like an annual awards shortlist for flashy marketing — generative AI in Notepad, a clipboard that brags about being smarter, and Recall quietly recording sessions — while many of the operating system’s foundational pain points remain outstanding and, in some...

Start11’s latest update continues the app’s steady, practical mission: restore control of the Start menu and taskbar for users who find Windows 11’s defaults limiting. The v2.55 update, released as a beta build at the end of September, brings a mix of small but meaningful behavior changes, a...

Defender is present in the taskbar and system tray, and Task Manager says it's running, but when I click on it on the taskbar, it doesn't maximize. I've also tried cycling through windows using Task View, which also shows it's open, but, again, clicking on it does not bring it up like a normal...

For years the quickest way I reached for the volume on Windows was a keyboard shortcut or the tiny slider in Quick Settings—only to discover that Windows 11 quietly restored a single, frictionless gesture: hover the mouse over the speaker icon in the taskbar and roll your mouse wheel to change...

Microsoft is quietly testing a new taskbar entry that makes it possible to send an open app window or the entire desktop to Copilot Vision with a single click — a small interface change that signals a substantial shift in how Windows 11 expects users to interact with AI-powered assistance across...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing another Copilot shortcut in Windows 11 — a “Share with Copilot” button that appears when you hover over an app on the taskbar and lets Copilot Vision scan and analyze whatever’s visible in that window. Background Microsoft’s Copilot strategy has been to make...

Hi, The ENTIRE POINT of a taskbar icon/instance is that you can look at it and quickly identify it. So WHY ON EARTH does File Explorer in Windows 11 keep changing colour depending on whether it happens to be on documents or pictures etc. Honestly. ffs

Windows 11 Insiders are now seeing a new, unexpected entry in the parade of Copilot entry points: a floating “Share with Copilot” button that appears when you hover over an open app on the taskbar and use the window preview. The button launches Copilot Vision against the contents of that window...

Microsoft’s latest Insider package, delivered as KB5065786, folds a fresh set of Copilot experiences into the Windows 11 shell — most notably a taskbar “Share with Copilot” affordance that lets Copilot Vision scan and analyze the content of a window you hover over on the taskbar, plus a...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a new Insider preview package — KB5065786 — that surfaces a focused set of account-management refinements alongside deeper Copilot integrations and a long list of fixes and known issues, delivered as Build 26220.6690 to the Dev Channel and Build 26120.6690 to the...

Microsoft’s latest Insider update, shipped under KB5065786, quietly tightens the integration between personalization and AI across Windows 11 by adding new Desktop Spotlight context-menu entries, a unified account hub in Settings, and deeper Copilot features in Click to Do and the taskbar —...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27950 to the Canary Channel with a tight, targeted set of bug fixes aimed at smoothing a handful of visual and installation problems that have frustrated Insiders — most notably fixes for taskbar preview misalignment after display resolution...

Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27950 to the Canary Channel, a compact but meaningful flight that fixes a string of installer rollbacks, cleans up several UI and resource regressions, and temporarily reverts the new “Advanced” Settings page back to the prior “For...

Microsoft appears to be quietly experimenting with an “AI agent” entry point for the Windows 11 taskbar — a small, persistent companion that could surface context-aware assistance, link into Copilot features, and even perform multi‑step actions on behalf of the user. Traces of a feature labeled...

Microsoft today pushed another Dev Channel flight: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6690 (KB5065786), a focused cumulative update for Insiders running Windows 11, version 25H2, that continues the program’s push to fold Copilot-driven experiences deeper into the shell while addressing a set...

Windhawk arrives as a surprisingly polished bridge between what Microsoft ships in Windows 11 and what many users actually want: a lightweight, open‑source mod platform that makes the Start menu, taskbar, File Explorer and other core UI elements genuinely customizable — and, in many cases...

ExplorerPatcher’s latest pre-release restores the long-missed File Explorer title bar, patches several Start menu and taskbar regressions, and moves under-the-hood hooking to a new library — but it also ships with a short list of known quirks and a reminder that modifying core shell behavior...