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How to enable 'Never Combine taskbar buttons'. Windows 11 ?
This isn't an "issue" that needs resolving or a "bug" support can help with - it's a design choice. A really, really piss poor design choice that impacts my productivity every day.
Amazing to me that Microsoft are consciously removing critical UI aspects people rely on (and have done for years) in Windows and offering nothing in regard to any actual new useful features.
Windows 11 UI is a huge step back requiring third party tools to "fix" and restore look and feel options we've been used to for 20 years - in other words utter garbage.
If I wanted my PC to feel like macOS I'd buy a Mac.
Thats exactly the kind of b***s**** because of which I have not been migrating to Linux on desktops for the last 20 years.
Now on one hand important functionality and stability is sacrificed, on the other hand users are forced into dependencies from Microsofts cloud...
Quote "Hey son, please visit me soon. After I booted my PC (It did an Win 11 update without prior notice!!!) it keeps asking me for a strange Microsoft ID and I have no idea what to do here!! Help, I need to use my PC but cannot get around this screen!". Now guess if I created an MS account after I needed to PHYSICALLY travel there...
Think in the long run I'll just get them bluetooth keyboards and tablets and save the time and money for PC's. As the added value of a separate category of devices is systematically reduced by Microsoft itself, it just lacks justification to upkeep it. And I think many users will do the same. Switch everything over to the companies they already have their phones, tablets, photos and personal messages at.
Guys that create content, code etc. will probably go Open Source (as I did with my home PC now) but for most people the only reason for a PC is propably, that office work on a tablet sucks.
Smart move by Microsoft to let their systems suck alike.
ChristianG_ I just had the same issue with my laptop, it broke completly after last update.
Now I am forced to use **bleep** grouping!
COME ON MICROSOFT, I AM CLOSER AND CLOSER TO MOVE TO APPLE
daniel960I am literally inquiring today with our IT folks... toggling between outlook and outlook alerts is INSANELY FRUSTRATING. Whoever imagined that users want this experience should be fired.
- Fired only after tarring and feathering. One time per Million users offended by this "feature".
- I used to use ExplorerPatcher, but it failed after installing preview Windows 11 updates back around December. I tried to contact developer to give him a heads up several times, but got no responses. I dropped ExplorerPatcher after that and moved to StartAllBack. It works great with preview releases too.
henrik32259 yes, I did exactly the same, but before it gave be huge amount of stress after it collapsed 🙂
