TaskBar Hider is an extremely simple utility for Windows that seems to have only one reason for existence, and that is to allow to hide and unhide/show the windows taskbar using a single hotkey. Despite its simplicity it works perfectly to handle the task for which it has been created. By default, the shortcut key is assigned to Win+X but that can be changed to your liking in the Setting panel. Only other notable option you have is about the automatic startup of the application on windows startup ...

These days all kinds of images and features are leaking around the net for the upcoming highly anticipated Windows 8 OS from Microsoft. We have already shed light on the integration of the built-in PDF reading capabilities in Windows 8 as well as the use of ribbon based user interface to be employed now system-wide (if early Windows 8 builds are any indication). One of the features that was clearly visible in the very early leaked images of Windows 8 was use of a currently login user’s tile that ...

One of the many new features included in the Windows 7 was a vastly improved taskbar/superbar. One of the exciting features supported by the new revamped taskbar in Windows 7 is the ability to pin the items to taskbar. It can be very useful to quickly launch application without going through the start menu. However, if you have lot of favorite windows programs that you use regularly then you might attempt to pin all of them to the taskbar to have a quick access. As you will notice the taskbar becomes ...

Windows 7 was released with many great new features. Most of these fall in to the visual eye candy and refinements to the GUI to have a smoother experience for it’s users as compared to the Windows Vista. In particular, Windows 7 taskbar got a big bump in terms of new functionality. One of the new features was the introduction of the real-time taskbar preview for the running application with their buttons listed in the taskbar. Regarding this functionality a problem that many of the users might ...

Sometimes when working in Windows it happens that we open multiple explorer or application windows to complete a task at hand. With a lot of windows open it is always convenient if we have the option to group windows that are related to a single task or single program on the task bar. It could be easily achieved by drag & drop rearrange of taskbar buttons but unfortunately Windows do not provides the drag & drop rearranging of taskbar buttons for this kind of grouping. TaskbarEx comes to ...