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The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A former Microsoft developer thinks Windows sucks and explains why. Windows has become more of a marketing tool to sell Microsoft services. A Microsoft exec touts Windows as an agentic OS, and the ...

Dave Plummer was once a programmer for Microsoft, where he played a key role in the development of the Windows Task Manager as well as the ZIP archive import for the operating system. The man has ...

Microsoft has confirmed that there's a new issue in Windows 11 that doesn't let users close the Task Manager after installing the October 2025 optional update. Cosing the Task Manager using the "X" ...

A new Windows 11 bug causes Task Manager to keep duplicating. Each time you close and reopen the tool, another instance launches. To avoid this, you'll have to close Task Manager from Task Manager ...

One reason to use the Task Manager in Windows is to see if any of the apps running on your computer are misbehaving or using a disproportionate amount of resources. But what do you do when the ...

Over a decade since Microsoft tried to make talking to Cortana on PCs a thing-- and spectacularly failed in the process-- the Windows giant is taking another swing at voice commands with its Copilot ...

Instead of running Python scripts manually for routine tasks, why not automate them to run on their own, and at the time you want? Windows Task Scheduler lets you schedule tasks to run automatically ...

Microsoft devotes most of its time and energy these days to promoting new AI- and Copilot-related features for Windows 11, but the company’s Windows Insider builds are still full of small tweaks and ...