Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.

Task This has a neat twist on task management, by separating all of our productivity tools into separate apps. So it’s like having a homescreen in a homescreen (a desktop in a desktop if you will).

Windows has changed a lot over the years and lost some old-school features along the way. Window grouping on the taskbar is a relatively new feature, for example, and you could disable it entirely in ...