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Question from Malinda: I have an almost new Acer laptop with Windows 11 on it.
It was working fine until I turned it on yesterday morning, but now I can’t see the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen unless I move my mouse down there.
I don’t know what happened but it’s really annoying. How can I stop the Taskbar from disappearing on me? [Read more…]
After insisting for years that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows ever, Microsoft changed their mind and released Windows 11 on October 4 of last year.
As with all new major Windows version releases, I recommended that most folks hold off on updating from Windows 10 until Microsoft had a chance to get all the major bugs worked out of the new version.
Well, I believe that time has come. [Read more…]
Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to either increase or decrease the brightness level of your computer screen?
If so, there are a several ways to make that adjustment, but it only takes a couple of quick clicks if you have a laptop or all-in-one desktop PC with Windows 11. [Read more…]
If you recently purchased a Windows 11 PC or upgraded an existing machine to Windows 11, you’ve probably noticed that the Taskbar is thicker than it was in previous Windows versions.
And if you went looking for one, you probably noticed that there’s no setting in either the Control Panel or the Setting app to change the Taskbar’s thickness.
Personally, I like having my Taskbar as thin as possible to ensure that I have as much of the usable part of the screen in view as possible.
If you’d prefer a thinner Taskbar as well, I have some good news for you… [Read more…]
Question from Cole: For a while now Windows Update has been prompting me to update from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
I finally got tired of seeing that message so I went ahead and let it install Windows 11.
But now that Windows 11 is on my computer all of my Desktop icons are gone. Can you tell me how to get them back? [Read more…]