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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!
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Pernille-Eskebo, could you at least let us know if you plan to fix this in a future release or is this a permanent "feature."
- I heard they might be bringing it back. But I don't trust MS. I'm tired of these companies trying to be like Apple. If we all wanted MacBooks we would buy one. I absolutely HATE that you can't ungroup your task items. It's less productive and its hard finding which window it is. I'm glad my desktop is not eligible to upgrade from Win 10 and I will NEVER upgrade and other PC as long as they are trying to be AppleSoft.
- FYI I highly recommend using the free ExplorerPatch to make Win 11 like Win 10. I don't mind the center start menu, I just hate grouped task bar icons. With this software patch it makes Win 11 so much more functional and actually likable now. Why MS thought it was a good idea to take that way and make it more difficult to use is beyond me. The community had to take things into their own hands.
- How did this pass QA? When will this be fixed? This is completely ridiculous.
- You know what the opposite of progress is?
Congress and Microsoft not fixing the Never Combine Taskbar Button
It's been almost a year since this thread has been here and yet no solution from Microsoft. I am frustrated everyday with combined taskbar buttons.- Go back to windows 10. I upgraded to win11 before I knew about this issue. Changed back to win10 (downgraded) as soon as I found out. Will never upgrade/install win11 before this is fixed - if ever.
- The company I work for will not roll back to windows 10. Our office is split 50/50 who use the never combine task bar and those who never knew about it. I'm stuck until there is an update from Microsoft to fix the problem.
- I have just taken delivery of a new computer with Windows 11. I am shocked to find that I can't uncombine task bar buttons. With the number of windows I need open for work the operating system is unusable. I will have to try one of the fixes contained within this blog. Very poor introduction to Win 11.
- This feature is one of the key differentiator between mac & windows. It gives 10x jump in productivity. Eg: Most of us open multiple chrome or excel or any other documents at a time. Without this feature I need to keep finding the right window which is frustrating. To me this is must have feature else people have to find alternate software and pay 3P for no reason.
Unfortunately, I upgraded to Windows 11.
Discovered the "never combine taskbar buttons" problem.
I therefore immediately downgraded to Windows 10, but now there is a problem with Windows Update. So this has become a security issue. Thanks to Microsoft for not listening to its customers and users. In any case, I will not use windows 11 until "never combine taskbar buttons" is in place. If it is not fixed before support for Windows 10 ends, I will have to find another solution.
Does anyone know when this bad un-productive bug will be fixed?
- Microsoft are you have only degenerated and retarded software developers???
One plus thing for Windows is that Never combine taskbar buttons, what is better than Mac or other... And you ruin this. Almost 1 year has passed and Microsoft still not added this function back. Sleeping people! I do need Microsoft to bring back the "never combine" function for the taskbar in Win11. Please update it!
- Please Microsoft, bring the never combine taskbar icons back. Far too many people rely on it for their daily activities
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/tag/22000.708.46.4_c1f9f49
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