![]() Centralising them and bringing them to the forefront makes them only a downward glance away. I’ve found TaskbarX particularly useful on large high-resolution displays, where icons would otherwise be shoved into the corner. With TaskbarX, your application icons remain centred on your display and can be customised with custom styles such as opacity customisation, animations as well as the ability to offset your icons. TaskbarX brings a dock-like feel to Windows as well as enhanced customisation settings. Twinkle Tray is free and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store for easily installation and fits in perfectly with your Windows installation – with styles for both Windows 11 and Windows 10. I’ve set up a custom keyboard shortcut and have mapped it to the brightness adjustment keys on my Logitech keyboard that would ordinarily only be able to adjust the brightness on a laptop. This is useful as you can schedule monitor brightness throughout the day as well as set hotkeys and shortcuts so you can quickly adjust the brightness of your monitors. Twinkle Tray uses DDC/CI functionality found on most computer monitors so you can control speaker volume, brightness and contrast directly from within Windows. Frequently accessing the brightness adjustment for your monitor can become a bit off a faff – this is where Twinkle Tray comes in. Let’s face it, monitor menu interfaces are pretty terrible. Once you’ve installed it, I’d recommend disabling the built-in Windows volume mixer icon in the taskbar tray and swapping it out for EarTrumpet to avoid any confusion. EarTrumpet is slick and I’ve been using it for the last couple of years, I highly recommend it as it gives you easy control over the sound on your computer. ![]() That final point is really handy, as you can, for example, have most of your computer sound come out of your speakers but make Spotify play from a Bluetooth speaker, for example. EarTrumpet is simple, but provides a native feeling experience that provides a visualiser, quickly changing your default playback device as well as quickly switching the playback device per application as well as individual volume adjustments per application. EarTrumpet replaces the Windows volume mixer with a souped-up and more powerful way to control audio on your computer. ![]() EarTrumpet is the first utility on our list and is free. ![]()
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