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Windows 11 taskbar icons uncovered: What do they mean?

Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.
How-To Geek on MSN

This open-source tool fixed Windows 11's ugly taskbar

Windhawk is a free and open-source utility that allows you to customize most aspects of the Windows user interface, including ...
GeekWire

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
PC Gamer

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...
IGN

Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 System Update 21.1.0 Available — Here Are the Patch Notes

Nintendo has released its latest system software update for the Switch and Switch 2, bringing both consoles' firmware up to Version 21.1.0. Today's patch is a minor one — at least, according to the ...