Windows taskbar icons: How to clean up the clutter

Lis has a taskbar “running over with icons,” and needs to clean things up a bit.

If you keep a lot of programs running at the same time, or if you have pinned a lot of them to the taskbar, that row of icons at the bottom of the screen will overflow. You won’t be able to see all of them.

One obvious solution is to close some of those programs. This will clear the taskbar and improve performance. Shutting down your PC in the evening and booting fresh in the morning will help.

But if you have to keep all those programs running, there are some other solutions.

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