


You can also disable other icons such as the TaskView icon and the Windows ink workspace by rightclicking the taskbar.Based on my test, I find in my environment, custom taskbar layout is working well.Windows will instantly start searching for what you type. You can still access search by opening the start menu and starting to type. If you don’t care about having quick access to the search window, you can disable the icon outright. The Windows 10 start menu lets you pin as many tiles as you want to it, very similar to the taskbar, and is much better for having a large number of programs easily accessible, while leaving the taskbar for the essentials.The end product leaves us with taskbar that has plenty of room left for the essentials, and even allows you to Enable old-style taskbar icons with the window name/title similar to Winodws Vista and earlier. Right click the icon you want to remove.The last thing we recommend is unpinning items you don’t want on your taskbar.You can access the hidden icons by clicking the up arrow. Drag an icon up from the tray and drop it in to the hidden icons area which will appear automatically.You can easily hide these by dragging them into the hidden icons area. While we’re looking at the system tray, you can see that there are quite a few tray icons visible that aren’t always needed.Right click the taskbar (or your search icon).Next, if you don’t use the People menu, disable it.

This frees up the space taken up by the search bar, and still allows you to access the search menu with 1 click. The first thing we recommend doing is replacing the search bar with a search icon.It has all the default settings and has a lot of programs pinned to it. We’re starting off with what we would consider a fairly cluttered taskbar. In this article, we’re going to show you some of the ways you can save space on your taskbar. In modern version of Windows 10 a lot of the space is taken up by icons such as the search bar, TaskView and people buttons. Since Windows 7, we’ve been able to pin programs to the taskbar for quick and easy access to our most used software, however with each windows release more and more items are added by default to the taskbar.
