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Taskbar

The taskbar is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, displaying and facilitating switching between running programs. The taskbar and the associated Start Menu were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at Microsoft who had previously collaborated on great ape language research…

Art, Microsoft Windows & Unix-like operating systems

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Microsoft Windows

MacOS

Unix-like operating systems

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Taskbar

Nodes115
Edges114
Triples155
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017391
Components1

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Taskbar

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related to Taskbar elements · 49
Taskbar → Bing Desktop, By, Click, DeskBands, Desktop Update, Desktop Window Manager, For, In, Internet Explorer, It, Jump, Launch Internet Explorer Browser, Microsoft, Microsoft Writing Style Guide, On Windows, OSR, Peek, Previously, Programs, Quick Launch
related to Desktop toolbars · 22
Taskbar → Address, Contains, Deskbands, Desktop, Flip, Internet Explorer, Language, Links, Optionally, Other, Quick Launch, Shortcuts, Since, Tablet PC, Tablet PC Input Panel, This, Usually, Windows, Windows Media Player, Windows Vista
related to Microsoft Windows · 18
Taskbar → But, Daniel Oran, For, In Windows, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft's Cairo, OSR, Quick Launch, R2, Start, The, The Quick Launch, The Windows, Windows, Windows Desktop Update, Windows Server, Windows XP
related to macOS · 17
Taskbar → Apple, AppleScript, Application, Classic Mac OS, Dock, DragThing, Each, For, Mac OS, Minimized, NeXTSTEP, No, Prior, The, The Dock, Third, Version
related to Customization · 14
Taskbar → However, Start, The, The Windows, These, To, UltraMon, Up, Users, When, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Vista, Windows XP
related to Amiga · 8
Taskbar → AmiDock, AmigaOS, Amistart, For, Mac OS, MorphOS, OS, The AROS
related to GNOME · 8
Taskbar → Applications, By, GNOME, Places, System, The, These, Windows' Show
related to KDE Plasma · 5
Taskbar → In, In KDE Plasma, November, Widgets, Windows
related to Other Unix environments · 3
Taskbar → CinnamonMATELXDEXfceTrinity Desktop, KDE3's Kicker, These
is a · 2
Taskbar → exemplar of a category of always-visible graphical user interface elements that provide access to fundamental operating system functions and information, graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95

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windows button icons desktop screen user area applications notification window bar quick also system show application programs introduced menu display

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Taskbaris agraphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 950.90text
Taskbaris aexemplar of a category of always-visible graphical user interface elements that provide access to fundamental operating system functions and information0.90text
Bing Desktopinstance ofand even applications from Microsoft0.80text
UltraMon allow it to span multiple displaysinstance ofalthough third-party utilities0.80text
Winaero's Taskbar Pinner can be used to pin any type of shortcut to the taskbar.Desktop toolbarsOther toolbarsinstance ofhowever third party utilities0.80text
known asinstance ofhowever third party utilities0.80text
Winaero's Taskbar Pinner can be used to pin any type of shortcut to the taskbarinstance ofhowever third party utilities0.80text
DragThing were a popular category of shareware on these systems.The Dockinstance ofThird party taskbars0.80text
as featured in macOSinstance ofThird party taskbars0.80text
its predecessor NeXTSTEPinstance ofThird party taskbars0.80text
is also a kind of taskbarinstance ofThird party taskbars0.80text
Taskbarrelated to AmigaAmigaOS0.60section

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