

Now, whenever you grab the title bar of a window and shake it around, every other window will minimize automatically. Go to Settings > System > Multitasking and turn on the Title bar window shake. If you frequently have multiple apps on your display and want an easy way to minimize them all at once, Windows 11 has got you covered. You can set the time that your focus session lasts to the left of the button - hit the – and + buttons to decrease or increase the time of the session. There are several ways to start a focus session on Windows 11 - which activates do not disturb, makes it so apps in the taskbar don’t flash, and turns off badge notifications on apps in the taskbar - but the easiest is to click on the time in the taskbar and click on the Focus button in the bottom right corner. The feature is appropriately called focus. Your computer is full of distractions, but Windows 11 comes with a feature to help limit distractions if you need to focus on work. From there, search for the app you want to make the default (Chrome, for example), click on the app, and hit the Set default button. If you want to change any of your default apps, go to Settings > Apps > Default apps. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft wants you to use all of its first-party apps on your Windows 11 computer, but that doesn’t mean you have to. I prefer for Windows to be in Dark mode, but I like my apps to be in Light mode, so I use the Custom setting. From here, you can choose your default Windows mode and your default app mode. If you feel the same way, you can manually adjust the mode of your PC by heading to Settings > Personalization > Colors, and clicking on Choose your mode. This is a neat feature, but personally, I don’t want all of my apps to look different each and every time I decide to switch up my background. Windows 11 automatically toggles on Dark mode or Light mode based on the desktop background you choose.

Scroll down, click the Taskbar behaviors section, and then in the drop-down menu next to Taskbar alignment, choose Left.


In order to put it back on the left side - where it belongs - right-click your taskbar and click Taskbar settings. The most annoying of those changes was moving the Start menu over to the center of the taskbar by default. When developing Windows 11, Microsoft made several major changes, seemingly just to shake things up.
