We all are familiar with the new Taskview icon that’s introduced in Windows 10.Way 2 – Get rid of Task View icon if you do not use it often Yeah, it does look much better, doesn’t it? If you have successfully executed the instructions in STEP 2, you taskbar will now look like the following screenshot.This will change your Cortana Search Box into Cortana Search icon, which requires much lesser space. Now click on the second option, which is Show Cortana icon. Find the option named Cortana and move your mouse pointer over there. Right click on an empty portion in your taskbar, to view a hidden menu. Let’s start the cleaning right from there. After the analysis, you might have come to the conclusion that your Cortana Search Box has taken up the major portion of your taskbar.Way 1 – Use Cortana icon instead of Cortana Search box Way 4- – Decide which icons you want to see notifications of.Way 2 – Get rid of Task View icon if you do not use it often.Way 1 – Use Cortana icon instead of Cortana Search box.In addition, some changes to GUI of Explorer may also require a restart of Explorer.exe in order for the changes to take effect.
If you’re encountering issues with Windows’ shell, or other graphical user components such as Taskbar or Start menu, it’s possible to restart the Explorer to reset and refresh the Explorer process, instead of restarting the computer. Thus if the Explorer is stopped or removed, the GUI for Windows will disappear, and you will see a blank and black desktop with just mouse pointer.
It is also the component of the operating system that presents many user interface apps, such as Start menu, Taskbar, Desktop, and Windows Explorer or File Explorer. Explorer.exe is the default shell for Windows operating system, and is responsible for providing a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. The explorer.exe, or simply Explorer, is one of the prominent process viewable in Task Manager that is constantly and always running, and is commonly assumed as the Windows Explorer or File Explorer (in Windows 10).īut the explorer.exe process is much more than just Windows Explorer or File Explorer.