I've already tried the windows colour setting - it only affects windows, not the taskbar. There doesn't appear to be anything, even under the advanced settings, that modifies the taskbar colours while ...

Open the Windows Settings via the Start menu and click on Personalization and then Colors. In the menu next to Select Mode, set the option Custom and change Select Default Windows mode to Dark–you can ...

You can pin frequently accessed folders to Windows Explorer’s folder-like icon on the taskbar, but even more helpful for some might be the ability to pin a system-wide search to that same folder.

In general, I keep my task bar vertically on the left of the screen, and it's usually about three tray icons wide. I did the same thing with 7. This was fine for a while until I ran out of space for ...