Press the Windows key and the number key, which corresponds to the position of the program icon from the left, in the taskbar. Open them faster, using the keyboard.

The Quick Launch toolbar is a small toolbar that resides in your Windows taskbar that allows you to quickly launch programs that you place in it. Starting in Windows 7, the Quick Launch toolbar is ...

How to Put Windows Media Player Into the Taskbar. The Windows taskbar makes it convenient to access programs you use often with a single click and also view what programs are currently running.

The Windows 8 Desktop works the same way as Windows 7, including the ability to place program icons anywhere on the desktop and pin icons to the taskbar. In Windows 8.1, there is even a Start Menu ...

The Windows 8.1 update made Microsoft's Metro vision much more PC-friendly, but the newly universal desktop taskbar can block the UI in Metro apps. Here's how to make it stop.