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 ...

Make your taskbar transparent easily by toggling Transparency Effects in Settings on Windows 11. You can hide it completely by adjusting Taskbar Settings to auto-hide. Use TranslucentTB from the ...

Open the Windows Settings via the Start menu and click on Personalization and then Colors. In the menu next to Select Mode, set the option Custom and change Select Default Windows mode to Dark–you can ...

As nice as Windows 11 looks — and I do think it's pretty — it's frustrating that Microsoft limits customization of the operating system in so many ways. The taskbar, in particular, is a bit of a ...