Unlike traditional shell replacements like Cairo Shell or Open-Shell that are built with native Windows APIs and compiled C++ ...

The tiny tweaks in the update pushed to Windows 8.1 users last week transformed Microsoft’s Modern UI-tinged future into a truly PC-friendly operating system for the very first time, but as welcome as ...

Now, Cinnamon is the flagship desktop environment of Linux Mint, which is generally the best distro for experiencing it.

While you have Show desktop transparent vertical bar at the right side end of the taskbar which also adds the functionality of Desktop Peek, it appears that there are some who miss the old Show ...

How often has this happened to you? You're working on something at the server when a window locks up. Your only recourse is to open the Task Manager and kill the Explorer.exe process, which kills the ...

Pinning the Google Chrome icon to your desktop taskbar will help you launch this browser quickly. Windows 8 includes an option to pin application icons and keep them visible on the taskbar even when ...

Chuck Miller wrote to say that when he tries to drag a favoritedesktop shortcut Icon onto his taskbar, it won’t stay there — itremains on the desktop. OK, let’s start at the beginning: Why put an icon ...

Web apps are an essential part of most people’s workflow, whether it’s writing an email in Gmail or editing a spreadsheet in Excel Online. It’s handy to have all your stuff in the cloud, for sure, but ...

ChromeOS has always been just a Chrome browser and very little else. With the latest development build, however, Chromebook owners can try out a window manager, a taskbar, and even desktop space. It's ...