Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...

Microsoft has done a fair amount of reorganization and fine tuning on Vista's Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box. Of course, it makes sense that being a new operating system, Windows Vista's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the default Windows mode is on Light, you can’t choose a custom color. This article explains how to change the color of the ...

In the past few years, the Windows Start menu has been dangled in front of us and taken away more times than we can count, but it’s finally back—and it’s brought a lot of new tricks. For the first ...

Start11 v1.2 beta is out, and it adds back the ability to ungroup apps in the taskbar, but also lets you decide to have the Start menu left aligned and apps centered in the taskbar and more! Stardock ...

Microsoft recently announced its Windows event for June 24 and the company has been slowly dropping hints in teasers that suggest Windows 11 or next-gen OS is around the corner. The company also ...

Trying to create a customized start menu / taskbar for a specific department and not having any luck. I can see the group policy that the XML is attached to applies successfully for my test user and I ...

Windows 11 changes that users have begged for for years will finally arrive, Microsoft promises. A memo published Friday ...

The Microsoft Surface 2 has two faces. One is the Metro or Modern UI screen filled with the colorful tiles. The others is the Desktop where Apps from the Microsoft Office 2013 suite run. With the ...

One of the major complaints Windows Insiders have had against Windows 11, is that it is no longer possible to reposition the taskbar to the top or sides, Start11 will restore this option. Stardock ...