Windows 7 Start Button Changer (W7SBC) is a stand-alone and portable application. Unzip it, run the application, and click on "Select & Change Start Button" to swap your icons.

1 Right click on the “Start” button and the “open” option. 2 Then navigate to “Programs” and drag any icon you want from the desktop into this folder.

TaskBarDock lets you have two Taskbars, Hide the Start Button or System Tray, make Notification Area transparent, center-align taskbar icons, etc.

The taskbar really is where all the action in Windows 10 happens. Here's a full tour of every little icon and how this hub of activity behaves.

With Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1, Microsoft is re-introducing a Start Button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.

On Friday, Microsoft released its latest Windows 10 build 10130, which adds further refinements as Microsoft hastens toward a summer launch.

With Windows Blue, aka Windows 8.1, Microsoft is reintroducing a Start button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.

By default, Windows 11 features a centered Taskbar and Start menu experience, meaning the Start button itself has moved from the left-hand corner after 26 long years.

Look like the Start charm to you? Apparently, when users hover over the Start button icon, it changes color, taking on a black background and the flag logo's accent color.

Do you use the Start button in Windows? If not, then you're supposedly the reason Microsoft got rid of it in Windows 8. Chaitanya Sareen, principal program manager at Microsoft, told U.K. computer ...