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hoanglongson
Oct 07, 2021Iron Contributor
How to enable 'Never Combine taskbar buttons'. Windows 11 ?
Hi @all I did not find this function 'Never Combine taskbar buttons'. How can this function be found and enabled in windows 11? I can't work with multi-tab on windows 11. Thank you!
portolyan
Apr 18, 2022Copper Contributor
Yep, bring back both never combine AND labels on taskbar buttons, jesus christ.
BW64687644667
Apr 18, 2022Brass Contributor
Totally agree. It's absurd that we are expected to memorize what every random icon looks like for every application that we will ever use. That is literally impossible. It's almost as bad as the millions of indiscernible icons that mobile apps are using now. The vast majority of them are just totally random shapes or colors that have no correlation to the name or purpose of the app. Microsoft seems hell-bent on forcing the Windows taskbar to have the same God-awful, indecipherable icon cluster. I really don't get it.
If they want to give that layout for all of the millions of Windows users who treat their laptops as nothing more than toys for email and Web surfing, then why can't they just make that the default layout for Windows Home, but for Pro and Pro for Workstations, just give us a high-productivity interface that is conducive to multi-tasking? I really do not get it. I've been a software engineer for over 25 years and am a Microsoft devotee but am just dumbfounded by the Windows 11 taskbar situation. It makes absolutely no sense that they would remove almost every feature that aided multi-tasking. It is perplexing.
If they want to give that layout for all of the millions of Windows users who treat their laptops as nothing more than toys for email and Web surfing, then why can't they just make that the default layout for Windows Home, but for Pro and Pro for Workstations, just give us a high-productivity interface that is conducive to multi-tasking? I really do not get it. I've been a software engineer for over 25 years and am a Microsoft devotee but am just dumbfounded by the Windows 11 taskbar situation. It makes absolutely no sense that they would remove almost every feature that aided multi-tasking. It is perplexing.