Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

If you’d like to display a clean taskbar in Windows 11/10, you can hide the Notification area, which appears on the right side of the Windows taskbar. For doing this, you will have to use the Group ...

If you’d like to hide the system tray or the notifications area in Windows 11/10 you can do so using the Registry Editor, Group Policy Editor, or Ultimate Windows Tweaker. If it does not exist, in the ...

A new Action Center area for tracking notifications is joining the new Start Menu in a new update for the Windows 10 Technical Preview. Microsoft revealed its first significant update to the Windows ...

Hey guys, I have a question about the icons in the system tray (or "notification area" as Windows XP calls it).<P>After you've activated "hide inactive icons," you can customize how each icon behaves ...

Although Microsoft didn’t announce a notification center as part of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, a new hack can enable the feature in semi-functional form. Just keep in mind that much of the ...

A new report indicates that Microsoft isn’t just preparing to finally add a notification center to its Windows Phone 8.1. Instead, the company will attempt to rival the notification systems of ...

Microsoft says a "configuration error" in the Windows 10 News app was the cause of users seeing nonsensical notifications that made some of them think their machines had been infected with malware.

When I was reinstalling Windows 10 a few weeks ago, a thought occurred: I miss the old blinking network activity indicator, which used to give you an easy way to confirm your connection is working ...

Hey guys, I have a question about the system tray on the taskbar (I guess it's called "notification area" now). You know when a new icon loads, it adds an icon to the left of any icons currently ...