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Ungroup items on the Taskbar in Windows 11
I need help on how to ungroup items on the Taskbar in Windows 11
- Microsoft should bring back the feature. Removing the feature is counter productive!
I just installed W11, and, as I've previously done every time after a fresh install of 10, went to uncheck "group similar blah blah blah" because I actually like to be productive during the workday....
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YA'LL
WINDOWS DOES NOT GO ON A TABLET
THE IPAD IS FAST BECOMING A GLORIFIED WACOM
STOP FOISTING THIS **** ON US
- assurdo!!!
agree, I hate to be unable to ungroup Totally disappointing. Hope to see MS add this feature back ASAP
Microsoft please fix your OS to allow users to ungroup items on the taskbar in Windows 11! This change is incredibly frustrating. New versions of software are supposed to be upgrades to the predecessor not downgrades. What a productivity drain.
- Better yet: how about letting us choose which apps to group and which app not to group?
- I've been using explorerpatcher since the release of 11.
It restores the taskbar from Windows 10. You can also add a quick launch bar which is why I'll never use Windows 11 taskbar again.
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher - Everyone should continue upvoting the main feedback items from as many devices as you have access to. Even if you have already decided to use other software.
Open up "Feedback Hub" and search for "taskbar combine". Upvote everything that is returned.
In the meantime rollback to Win10 if you can and prevent as many people as possible from moving to win11. Really, disuade everyone. Friends, family, everyone on social media. A low number of upgraders will get their attention if the 10's of thousands of feedback hub votes do not.
Once you are on win11, and have exceeded the 10 day rollback period, microsoft has no reason to address this problem, you are stuck. You have become a meaningless statistic in their MAU number. I say I don't understand why they took away the option to ungroup items, but I think I do. The developers probably never click on the taskbar. They use ALT Tab to move between their open windows. So they probably see it as giving back some real estate instead of understanding that not everyone thinks as they do.
And although I'm a developer and use ALT Tab, I still want them ungrouped because I want to know what's open. With the tiny icons and everything grouped, I can't tell if it's just sitting there waiting to be opened or I have 20 versions of excel open.
- I fully agree with the other users on this thread that it is a terrible change by Windows to remove this option. As someone who recently updated from Windows 10, I would not have made this update if I had known about this problem beforehand.
I don't know if this will ever be solved. I really don't know how someone who uses a computer for anything is able to do it with things grouped. Even my wife who is a basic user rolled back to Windows 10 and now even the printer doesn't work anymore.
Does anyone knows the release date for Windows 12?
With the taskbar app grouping, Windows 11 continues to be painful for multitasking. But Microsoft seems wholly focused on making a better looking volume indicator.
