Turn your Windows taskbar into a better one with just one click!

Dinu Andradi
2 min readMay 29, 2021

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and it’s FREE!

We’ve all had the same UI including the taskbar in Windows 10 for years now & it really needs a refresh now. But if you’re a person who can’t wait until Satya gets dressed for the job, then this is for you.

TaskbarX is a simple app to use on Windows. The app provides customizability over the Windows taskbar which the OS does not, out of the box. You can have it floating at the bottom center of the screen with a transparent background ( like I do & it’s great even in the simplest form) or have many more effects and animations on it. just play around & you’ll find your favorite.

No trouble installing 10 apps and keep them running in the background. With just one click, you can have it running & by default, it will start at the Windows startup.

Download & install

You can download it for free from GitHub. Download the ‘TaskbarX_1.6.9.0_x64.zip’ and extract it to a folder and run the ‘TaskbarX.exe’. You’re good to go now.

For configuring the taskbar, double click on the ‘TaskbarX Configurator.exe’ & you’ll be presented with a separate app to tweak the taskbar as above mentioned. You can change it to whatever you like & click on the apply button at the bottom. After you made changes and applied them, you can close the configurator. You don’t need to have it running all the time.

On a side note, I’ve been using the TaskbarX for years now and I can assure you that there aren’t any risks of using it on PC. It’s not malware of any kind nor it will impact the performance of your PC.

And if you love it, consider purchasing it from the Windows store, it will be an appreciation for the developer too.

Hope you’ll enjoy it!

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Dinu Andradi

An experienced IT business analyst | A Reader | Passionate about clean code and cloud solutions. Engrossed in Business Analyzing and product design.