I need help on how to ungroup items on the Taskbar in Windows 11

This is by far the WORST DECISION Microsoft could have made.

NetboxGlobal Sadly, you can't. This is the new hellscape delivered unto us. It seems that it was decided that leaving icons grouped looked more pretty, despite it slaughtering productivity, and there is absolutly no way to ungroup taskbar icons in Windows 11 at this stage.

Yes user habits and functionality of windows10 taskbar - has been bogged down for styling , forgot that system productivity is most important!Yes please everyone make suggestions on this topic!

MS needs to stop trying to make desktop windows into a bundle of desktop+tabletI HATE this stupid taskbar and having to click on a button to access a menu...(start menu>apps) (right click+show more options)nobody wants this crap in a desktop system people want to click and go not click click click and more click to do 1 thingwant to make a friendlier OS for tablets? then make a different one for tablets...desktops are not touch screen (never seen a single person using a desktop with one)isn't the whole point of a "start menu" to show me my applications so I can open them?then why do I have to click on another button to see them?and whoever came up with the idea of grouped buttons is the biggest idiot in microsoft and should be FIREDit's about time microsoft listen to their users...so instead of messing with the UI which is pretty much a standard anywhere...linux..osx..windows...desktop with my files icon / taskbar with BUTTONS (not some grouped pile of utter).wanna create something people would actually use? get rid of microsoft widgets and add support for 3rd party ones.how about a cloud backup system with incremental snapshots so a person can restore their system from a certain day?companies would pay fortunes just for this featurebe able to install windows and install off a cloud backup from the previous week where they got randomwaredas a windows user I demand the name of the dev that created grouped taskbar/system icons so we can create an online petition to have him fired.Any moron that has such ideas and keeps bringing them again and again into windows countless times after people **bleep** about them on forums..on youtube etc...should and deserves to be fired to prevent such influences into the future of the windows OS.

NetboxGlobal This guy should be given the Nobel Prize (restores Windows 10 taskbar and Quick Launch):https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

Ungroup items on the Taskbar in Windows 11

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CapriciousSage
Brass Contributor
Jul 26, 2021
NetboxGlobal Sadly, you can't. This is the new hellscape delivered unto us.

It seems that it was decided that leaving icons grouped looked more pretty, despite it slaughtering productivity, and there is absolutly no way to ungroup taskbar icons in Windows 11 at this stage.
- designer8
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 10, 2023
  I registered for this community forum so i can comment on how much i am disappointed with microsoft for getting rid of WINDOWS in the taskbar and instead grouped everything up to an icon. STOP BEING APPLE'S COPYCAT.
- AthenaDad
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 06, 2021
  Couldn't agree more! Can't think of a benefit Windows 11 provides that comes close to losing the ungroup feature. Let me know how best to raise this issue so as to increase the chances it's addressed.
  
  CapriciousSage
- Anonymous
  Aug 26, 2021
  Yes user habits and functionality of windows10 taskbar - has been bogged down for styling , forgot that system productivity is most important!
  Yes please everyone make suggestions on this topic!

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Ungroup items on the Taskbar in Windows 11

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