If you wish your Windows 11 PC looked more like Windows 7, these tweaks and apps can bring you back to those times. All for ...

Interactive, grouped thumbnails The Windows Vista taskbar shows corresponding thumbnails when you mouse over a taskbar button, but in Windows 7, these thumbnails are clickable, allowing you to ...

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 ...

Explorer 7 does exactly what it says on the tin. It's a tool that enables certain Windows 7 UI elements to be loaded in modern versions of Windows, most notably the taskbar and Start menu.

Windows 7’s new taskbar functions as a program launcher as well as task switcher. As a result, the old Quick Launch bar, the area on the left side of the taskbar that contained shortcuts for ...

As for why I like so many windows, it's because it affords fast, easy access to them all thanks to their static position on the taskbar (and not hidden in some secondary menu that I need to wait ...

Four features that make the taskbar even more functional by Kevin Purdy – Microsoft pulled off a rare feat with Windows 7’s taskbar, making it far more elegantly useful and customizable ...

Fortunately, I’ve discovered the awesome Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer 1.1 (W7TTC for short), a free utility that lets you make thumbnails just about any size you want.

Yeah, I’ll admit it: I’m a Windows person. Two years ago this summer, I traded in an overworked Windows 7 laptop that was literally screaming in pain for a SFF Windows 10 box as my main machine.

Of course, savvy users know that you can add an entire iTunes toolbar to the taskbar in both Windows 7 and Vista, but that just adds clutter. Here you get basic playback controls without consuming ...

Run multiple copies of applications from the taskbar The Windows 7 taskbar serves a dual purpose, which can get confusing at times. It’s used to launch programs, and also to switch between ...