Scores of weather aficionados, a particularly large and vociferous online fandom, have downloaded the free version of the WeatherBug program, which, among other features, lists the current local temperature next to the clock on your PC's taskbar.
You can also use "Safely remove hardware" located in the taskbar near to a PC clock.
The method for this varies depending on whether you are using Windows or OS X: Windows: Click Start and select Computer/My Computer, or click the "This PC" button in your Windows 8 taskbar.
Twitter also reminded Windows users how to make the TweetDeck web app more accessible from their Windows PC by pinning the app to their taskbar.
In Windows 8 it is called This PC and can be accessed from the taskbar.
But if Microsoft's triple-threat of speed boost, popular features, and app-like Windows taskbar integration keeps up, next year's PC buyers may not feel the need to replace Internet Explorer with something else.
Drag the "This PC" or "Computer" shortcut on your desktop to the taskbar to create a shortcut.
On a touch-screen PC, the Show Desktop button is double-wide; you can open jump lists (pop-up taskbar menus) by swiping a finger upward instead of right-clicking.
Our Geek Squad Agents enable up to 100 system tweaks that improve PC performance and functionality, including optimized startup and shutdown, improved menu navigation, quick launch and taskbar cleanup and program shortcut creation.
Jide Technology, which was founded in 2014 and raised $1.6 million on Kickstarter last summer with a pitch to build "the world's first true Android PC," has tweaked the platform to make it a little more like Windows — adding a taskbar and support for multiple windows where different chunks of app content can be positioned and peeked at on-screen, or maximized for full screen use.
The taskbar and Start menu are always there to remind you that you're still using a PC, and you generally use a different program for each function.
