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It's Bernardo from the BTNHD and yes, welcome back to another awesome tech tip Tuesdays
and I'm hoping everyone is doing well.
So let's get into it.
Alright, so today is all about controlling the taskbar within Windows 10.
All right.
So on my desktop, I'm going to right click on the Start menu, click on Run type in WINVER
hit OK, and I'm doing everything within a Windows 10.
Build 19592.
So the taskbar I mean, the taskbar itself has its own settings.
you are able to modify for yourself to fit your workflow, right.
So if you right click on the taskbar, you're going to see Taskbar settings, you're going
to click on it.
Now the first one by default it is locked, meaning you're not able to move the taskbar
at all, but if you just slide it to your left to turn it off, this allows you to move the
taskbar anywhere you want.
Left, right, up, top, whatever, make it larger, smaller is up to you right.
Second option within the taskbar settings is automatically hide the taskbar in desktop
mode.
So when you slide it to your right Taskbar is hidden automatically hide the taskbar in
tablet mode if you're using Windows 10 on a tablet, this right here will hide the taskbar
for you and give you more of a real estate on the display to manage your tablet.
The next feature is use small Taskbar buttons.
I like to use this a lot.
So when you slide it to your right to turn it on, everything kind of shrinks down to
a small little icon.
I love that feature.
The next feature is used peek to preview the desktop when you move your mouse to the show
desktop button at the end of the taskbar.
So if you take your mouse, right, this is my mouse over here and you move it all the
way to this corner right here.
What happens is it kind of gives you a preview of a desktop.
This is like show desktop on the Mac world.
So when you turn it on, you put your mouse over to the corner.
It kind of, just makes everything disappeared for you to see your desktop.
Now, the Next one is replaced command prompt with Windows PowerShell.
By default it is turned on.
So when you right click on your start menu, you're going to get the option of Windows
PowerShell.
Windows PowerShell as admin, if you want to use Command Prompt as your default just slide
that guy to your left to turn it off.
And then when you right click on the Start menu, you're going to see your command prompt
and command prompt as an admin options there.
Now another option is show badges on the taskbar.
badges are basically if you're using the Mail app, you will see like a little number on
top of the icon stating that you have a new email.
By default is turned on you are able to turn that off, it's up to you.
next feature is all about the taskbar location on the screen.
By default it is located on the bottom but if you hit that drop down menu, you are able
to change it to your left, right or top.
The next option in the list is combined Taskbar buttons.
I think by default they have always hide labels.
I like to have my option has never been a Taskbar settings, you're able to also customize
your notification area.
If you click on select which icon appears on the taskbar, it gives you a list of stuff
you could turn on and turn off within your taskbar.
By default, you got the volume and network but you are able to turn on Windows Explorer.
Next one in the list is turn system icons on and off.
If you click on that link, it gives you a list of all the stuff that you could turn
off and on by default gives you the clock, volume, network.
If you don't want that stuff, you can just turn it off just to clean up your taskbar.
Now if you have multiple displays, which I don't have, that's the reason why mine is
grayed out.
If you have a secondary monitor, you are able to turn on show Taskbar on all the displays,
and then make modifications to show the taskbar buttons on a particular monitor and also combine
buttons on other task bars.
Last thing on the list is people.
if you slide that guy to your right to turn it on, you're able to choose how many contacts
to show up.
By default it is set to three but if you hit that drop down menu, the max right now is
only 10.
And then the last couple of things is show my people notifications, all that stuff is
turned on by default, you are able to turn it off.
And that's it for today's Tech Tip Tuesday all about controlling the taskbar.
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