Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

If aesthetics and efficiency top your list of needs, there are several Linux distributions that are right up your alley. Both Ubuntu Budgie and Pop!_OS should top that list.

I’ve found a solution to the situation here. An application called IconRestorer is specially designed to overcome this problem of arranging many desktop icons in one standard layout with a single ...

ReIcon is a tool that helps you rearrange and restore your desktop icons on a Windows PC. Our desktop icons are actually the shortcuts to all the programs we frequently run on our PC or the shortcuts ...

For those longing for the days of Windows 95 and its useful collection of PowerToys utilities, Microsoft is letting you add helpful little extensions that make Microsoft's desktop more delightful to ...

Not all updates are an improvement, as the Twitterverse discovered when Twitter first debuted an unexpected change-up on the platform on Tuesday, April 23. When viewed from laptop or your computer, ...

Google could be working on a new desktop layout for YouTube that resembles how the app works on mobile. Leaker Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane), who is behind several recent Facebook, Instagram and ...

OK, I just formatted, and also decided a new desktop layout was in order.<P>The new layout has the start menu across the top, with the start button in the upper left hand corner. I made a bar across ...