Microsoft has redesigned the taskbar for Windows 7, hoping to make it less cluttered and easier to use than Vista's. It features larger icons and the ability to pin new applications to it, but the ...

Windows 7 Explorer window has done away with some toolbar buttons like Copy, Cut, Paste, Select All, etc, which were found in the earlier versions of Windows. CustomExplorerToolbar is a free tool that ...

If you see a computer running Internet Explorer that has one, two, or heaven forbid, three toolbars, you know that the daily user of that machine is a Luddite. And so when I caught word of Microsoft’s ...

Windows 7 only: Windows Explorer's context menu is handy, but if you'd like easier access to your most-used features, CustomExplorerToolbar can put a number of different buttons right in Explorer's ...

While we haven't yet gotten our hands on a Windows 7 build with the new taskbar, we did talk to Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky about the various UI changes and what we can expect at release time. It's ...

It surprises many users to learn that Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer are not the same thing. The latter is a file manager–not the greatest one in the world, but definitely a handy tool for ...

I still remember the golden era of Windows customization, somewhere between the glassy peaks of Windows 7 and the utilitarian ...

Microsoft is releasing a series of new products at ETech. They include Windows Live Search Beta, Windows Live Toolbar Beta (including announcing the acquisition of Onfolio), and the next version of ...

What if a new version of Windows didn’t try to dazzle you? What if, instead, it tried to disappear except when you needed it? Such an operating system would dispense with glitzy effects in favor of ...

So if you open the first folder, you will see it as empty. But if you click on the Compatibility Files tab, immediately the latter folder is opened, and you see all the favicons there. It is called ...

The Windows 8 Desktop did away with the very useful Quick Launch toolbar available in previous versions of Windows. It’s easy to bring back, though — just follow these directions. 1. In the Windows 8 ...

Microsoft's Windows Live effort has been a bit of a confusing mishmash of products from the start. Was it merely a rebranding of existing products, such as MSN Messenger? Or was it simply a marketing ...