You can pin applications and files to the Windows taskbar to allow you to access them quickly and easily. Pinning an application takes a few quick clicks while pinning a file is a more involved ...

How do you keep the files and folders you need within easy reach when using Windows 7? By default, the Recent Documents folder is gone (though you can bring it back from the Start menu Properties ...

If you use Facebook frequently, it is most likely your first stop on the Web. Microsoft's Windows 7 enables you to pin an Internet Explorer icon that points directly to Facebook to your taskbar. Once ...

If you look at the bottom of your screen you should now have a new icon representing the site you are on. You can hold down the left mouse button and drag the icon around, moving it left and right and ...

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 ...

The Windows Explorer icon on the Windows 7 taskbar gives you easy access to your Libraries, but it's more likely that you want to go to a specific folder or even the root of a particular drive. You ...

Reader Jim wrote in with this problem: “Somehow I’ve lost the icon for Internet Explorer in my Taskbar and can’t figure out how to restore it. Might sound dumb, but I’ve spent hours with no results.” ...

This one tool gives me back so much more of control over my day-to-day user experience ...

Windows 7's taskbar lets you pin any running program to the taskbar for easy future access, but it treats folders like second-class sub-items of the Explorer icon. Create a fake "program" to pin ...