Microsoft released a new preview update for Windows 11 on December 1, 2025, targeting taskbar crashes, auto-hide glitches, and broader shell reliability problems that have frustrated users for months.

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Microsoft will finally let you move the Windows 11 taskbar. Changes to the taskbar are rolling out to Windows 11 insiders. Microsoft also promises several tweaks to the Start menu. Windows 11 users ...

Editor's take: Despite pushing its latest Windows OS as the best software product ever, Microsoft continues to face significant resistance from millions of PC users who have declined to make the ...

Microsoft has finally brought back the resizable taskbar and Start menu to Windows 11 in the latest preview version rolling out to Insiders in the Experimental channel. Starting with Windows 11 ...

Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2. Microsoft is testing Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu updates, including movable taskbar positions, cleaner Start controls, and compact layout options.

In 2022, when Windows 11 was in its infancy, the Feedback Hub was full of users complaining about the state of the Start menu and taskbar, particularly about changing where the taskbar appears. At ...

As expected, Microsoft has made a number of changes to Windows 11. One of them is incorporating an interesting macOS-style Dock in the UI that brings all the apps along with the Start Menu to the ...

If you don’t like the Taskbar to appear on your Windows 11/10 desktop all the time, you can easily set Windows to auto hide the Taskbar when not in use. You may need to hide the taskbar because you ...

It's a simple concept – hit the auto-hide icon (or use the keyboard shortcut) and all the browser fluff disappears. Move the mouse pointer to the edges of the window, and it comes back. It's rather ...

Microsoft has started prompting users in the Canary version of Microsoft Edge with a message that the browser can launch automatically when they sign into Windows. If enabled, Edge opens right after ...