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

Q: I don’t know how, but my files suddenly lost their Microsoft icons and now display an Internet Explorer logo. When I try to open the files, I get a window that says, “View downloads — Internet ...

Have you ever run into a situation where you want to raise the volume of a downloaded clip to make it audible, only to find that the Volume icon is missing from the Taskbar of your Windows 11 or ...

When an app uses your mic or tracks your location, Windows displays small icons in the taskbar. Hovering over these icons ...

Reader Barry is running Windows 7 Professional. Out of the blue, his system started displaying generic icons for various files and folders. Thankfully, he was kind enough to include a screenshot, ...

Windows 11/10 displays the Windows Defender icon in the Notification Area of your taskbar. In this post, we will see how to hide, disable or remove the Windows Defender icon from the System Tray when ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: We converted from Windows 7 to Windows 10 a few months ago. Previously, I was able to establish desktop icons for frequently used programs (Quicken, Word, ...

Windows 10 may be essentially an ex-operating system, but that doesn't mean Microsoft has relinquished its appetite for really ancient code. For proof, look no further than the icons contained within ...

One of the least known and most useful shortcuts in the Mac toolbox has long been the capability to use a window’s proxy icon—the little icon next to the window’s title—as though it were any other ...