The overflow is the little pop-up menu that appears when you select the arrow to the left of those corner icons.įor the most part, the icons in the overflow window are meant to notify you when there is something that needs to be done - messages that have arrived or an update that is needed. Turns out the corner icons are the icons in the right corner of the taskbar - the ones that show the time and date, your battery status, your volume level, and your Wi-Fi status, among other things. To tell you the truth, when I first saw the phrase “Taskbar corner overflow,” I pictured a bunch of app icons flowing out of the display like Niagara Falls. While the taskbar corner icons and the overflow window aren’t new, I never actually knew what they were called before. Taskbar behaviors include hiding the taskbar and showing unread messages. It also lets you automatically hide the taskbar (something that’s been a taskbar behavior for a very long time) show a badge on taskbar apps to let you know if, say, you have any unread messages handle how the taskbar works on multiple displays and show a clean desktop by clicking on the far right corner of the taskbar. Incidentally, the “Taskbar behaviors” section of the settings lets you do more than move your icons to the left.
You can move the icons from the center to the left of the taskbar.
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Those of us who having been using Windows 10 (or 7 or earlier iterations) are used to accessing the Start menu from the lower left-hand corner of the screen. You can hide four of the standard taskbar icons.
The Start menu icon is, as might be expected, unremovable. Most apps are simple to remove: just right-click on the icon and select “Unpin from taskbar.”Ī few of the icons take a little more effort to remove. You can also pin an app to your taskbar from the “All apps” menu. If you don’t see “Pin to taskbar” in the menu that pops up, then select “More” and you’ll see “Pin to taskbar.”