Windows 11 has been available for almost three months now – and more and more people are switching from Windows 10 to Windows 11. For those of you who want to continue to use Windows 10,\u00a0 Microsoft plans to continue to update it and support it through October 14, 2025 – so if you like Windows 10 there’s no reason to switch right now. For those of you who are using Windows 11 now – or plan to switch to Windows 11 soon, here are six easy tips for Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Change the taskbar alignment<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n By default, the Windows 11 taskbar is centered, which also means the Start button isn’t at the left edge of the taskbar as it has been in all previous versions of Windows.<\/span><\/p>\n If you want a more traditional Windows taskbar, it’s easy to do:<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Right-click on the taskbar and click “Taskbar settings”<\/span> 2. Expand the right-click menu<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Windows 11 has (for whatever reason) and simplified, minimalistic, right-click menu. The right-click menu, by default, only shows the most often used options.<\/span><\/p>\n But the classic Windows right-click menu is still there. You can see it by right-clicking a file or folder and clicking on “Show more options” – or more quickly by using the SHIFT+F10 shortcut to see the full context menu. And if you want to change it permanently to the full context menu, see our tip here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 3. Task Manager missing from the Taskbar in Windows 11<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In previous versions of Windows, you could access Task Manager by right-clicking on the taskbar and choosing Task Manager from the right-click menu. In Windows 11, you can’t open Task Manager from the taskbar but you can open it by right-clicking the Start button, by selecting it from the Windows key + X menu, or by using our favorite way — the CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keyboard shortcut.<\/span><\/p>\n 4. Hide the Chat and Widget apps<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Taskbar real estate is precious. Many of you are not going to use the Windows 11 Widget app, and even fewer will use the Chat (Microsoft Teams) app.<\/span><\/p>\n To hide the Widget and Chat app icons on the taskbar<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Press Windows Key + I to open Settings<\/span> 5. Stop “Recommended” from showing on the Start menu<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Recommended section in the new Start menu shows the most recently installed apps, opened files, and other recommendations. If you don\u2019t want this showing up on your Start menu turn off recommendations this way…<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Open Settings (Windows Key + I)<\/span> 6. Take screenshots in Windows 11<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Windows 11 comes with an advanced Snipping Tool that makes it easy to create screenshots without installing any third-party software. <\/span><\/p>\n Open the Snipping Tool from the Start menu. When you’re ready to take a screenshot, use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key+Shift+S. You’ll be able to take screenshots of a section of your screen, your whole screen, or create a free-style snippet. After you’ve snapped your screenshot, you can crop it, annotate it, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n And by using the Snipping Tool’s delay feature, you can even screenshot your Windows 11 log-in screen.<\/span><\/p>\n Six Easy Tips for Windows 11 Windows 11 has been available for almost three months now – and more and more people are switching from Windows 10 to Windows 11. For those of you who want to continue to use Windows 10,\u00a0 Microsoft plans to continue to update it and support it through October 14, 2025\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4221,4299],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22761,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions\/22761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Scroll down to “Taskbar behaviors”<\/span>
\n3. Use the arrow next to Taskbar alignment “Center” to change it to “Left”<\/span>
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\n4. Your taskbar is now left-aligned as it was in Windows 10, Windows7, and earlier editions of Windows.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n2. In Settings choose “Personalization” > “Taskbar”<\/span>
\n3. Under “Taskbar items” turn the switch for Widgets and Chat to “Off”.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n2. Choose Personalization > Start<\/span>
\n3. Toggle the switches next to “Show recently added apps”, “Show most used apps”, and “Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists, and File Explorer”<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/win11-recco.png\")
<\/p>\n![\"Windows](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/win11-snip0.png\")
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