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That's not the itinerary we're following.

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Bon voyage.

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So the Mac also has a full screen mode that I love and we don't really have that in Windows anymore. We kind of used to Remember in Windows 8, but we don't anymore with the exception of some apps like if I bring up any web browser really, but in this case Microsoft Edge, you can see it kind of runs. You know, it does. It runs in this full screen mode, but by and large we don't have full screen mode. So there are workarounds for this. So for example, if I go to taskbar settings and go down into behaviors, I can automatically Hide the taskbar. And when I do that, what if the window is maximized, which isn't typically the same thing as full screen? It essentially becomes full screen in the sense that it is taking up the entire screen. And that could be any window. So if I bring up store, it will do the same thing. And when you mouse down to the bottom, obviously the taskbar comes and goes. And honestly, ever since the first beta of Mac OS 26 came out, I've been using Windows like this just to try it. And I've actually really started to like it. There's just a couple of problems. So the big one for me is you don't realize how much you miss something until it's gone. And in this case, what I missed was I was looking to see the time in the corner here, right? Which in the taskbar a lot, which I now know, because when it's gone, I look down there and there's nothing there. So I started researching whether there would be some kind of utility that might make up for that. And what I found, there's not much, oddly. But what I found was something called DSclock. And DSclock is a utility that. It's right here. I'll put it up here. I usually leave it on the bottom, but. And you can configure how it looks however you want. But as you can see, it has the date and the time. I've turned off a bunch of features. I've also really changed how this thing is formatted. By default. You can. This can look like anything. It doesn't have to be transparent, doesn't have to be these colors, etc. I did set it to be always on top. So if I bring up like, say, Microsoft Edge, you can see that it is sitting there over there. So I'll always see the time and the date. No matter what I'm doing. I usually actually leave it down here. I've kind of played with this a bunch, but if. Let me bring up the taskbar, it's hard to do that at the same time, but once it gets a little grab handle here, you can bring it up like that. So this is a little rough, but it's usually right about there. So. Okay, that's fine. That's not something that's on the Mac per se, but on the Mac, of course, they have that menu at the top. And now it's transparent. And the dock has always or has offered transparency of some kind for a long time. And we don't really have that here. So the taskbar, I'M hiding it, but it's also opaque. So as it turns out, there is a utility for that as well. And this is free and it's in the store. It's called Translucent TB for Taskbar. And when you run this, I'm hiding the taskbar here, so it's hard to see, obviously, but when I mouse down, you can see the icons here. You can't see this very well, but that's because of a display issue. If you reboot or just log in, log out, or log out, login, this will become clear again, where you can see all the elements very clearly. But this is kind of nice because this mimics in some ways the way that the Mac OS dock works, right? So again, if I bring up a full screen app, which is really a maximized app, and I mouse down now, it kind of gives you that effect. You don't get the, you know, the animations and so forth. But, you know, that's not horrible. If you want to go further than this, you can go to other utilities. Starbuck Star Dock makes a paid utility called Windows Blinds which has been around for over 20 years. And one of the things that it does is allow you to have this kind of Windows 7 style Transparent glass effect or translucent, depending how you want to configure it. I didn't install that on this computer, as you can probably tell. I'm already having enough problems with this thing today. But this is. It's not super expensive. If you love this interface and you want that kind of glass effect, definitely give this a try. But I find that I actually like the kind of opaque style that we have here today in Windows 11. But I do also kind of, you know, I've gotten very used to hiding the taskbar. I do like that kind of maximize Window is now sort of a full screen window effect. I like having the clock down here. So it's not exactly right. But again, with these utilities, most of which are free, all the ones I'm using here are free. So dsclock, which you can Google and find pretty easily. Translucent taskbar, translucent TB available in the store, and then PowerToys with the command palette, also free. And in the store it's pretty much the big bucket stuff. And then you have the advantage of using Windows and I find it to be much more logical and have better and more consistent multitasking and so forth. And so I don't personally suffer from Mac envy, but if you do, maybe this can help. So I hope this was helpful and instructive and possibly entertaining. Watching me flail around a little bit today. But thank you so much for watching. We will have a new episode of Hands on Windows every Thursday. You can find out more at TWiT TV. H thank you especially to our Club Twit members. We love you. If you don't support Club Twit yet, please consider doing so. You can find out more about this program at TWIT tv. Club Twit. Thanks. I'll see you next week.