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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
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An microsoft please bring back the option to ungroup icons onthe task bar
- Windows 11 is turning out to be another Windows 8.x. Too much focus on cosmetics at the cost of functionality.
- I cant believe I am reading this post after one moth and a half since it was created and Mircrosoft has not yet patched this.
Hi NetboxGlobal,
Unfortunately, this feature is no longer available in Windows 11, however, you can give feedback to Microsoft with the Feedback Hub by pressing Win + F.
SalmanAhmed but u need to install win 11 for make feedback on win11
so no thanks
i can wait a few years for upgrade
there are no point upgrade to a open beta test
the company i work for delayed win11 to 2024 (around 6000 users in 4 country)
I encourage you to test implementations on selected computers in the organization - to be up to date I think this is a good idea.
Best regards
Commercial previews for Windows 11 and Windows 10, version 21H2 - Microsoft Tech Community
- MS needs to stop trying to make desktop windows into a bundle of desktop+tablet
I 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 thing
want 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 FIRED
it'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 feature
be able to install windows and install off a cloud backup from the previous week where they got randomwared
as 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.Going back w10TiredOfYou
TiredOfYou https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
Hello Everyone, you may use the above application from the Github to get back the taskbar the way you want it.
Have a great day!
Shawn- Unfortunately, on my work computer, add-in type applications are disallowed by my company's network.
- Please Microsoft, bring back the ungroup taskbar items functionality.
Thanks NetboxGlobal This guy should be given the Nobel Prize (restores Windows 10 taskbar and Quick Launch):
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcherThat was fast, I can be happy again.
I noticed something though, since I installed ExplorerPatcher 2 hours ago, Windows manager is taking almost 6Gb of my ram, and search indexer 20% of my CPU. I can guess why this would happen, I'm not worried, just noting it. And I still rather have 6gb of my ram taken away, and 20% of my CPU, than have my icons grouped. Why why why, I just wanna khow why they're grouping m.
I can't believe I spent almost a year one click away from happiness.
Thank you
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher- Yeah Baby!! So far so good. Thank you to everyone that posted this patch.
- Thanks RobertStewart that has been helpful so far in fixing 2 problems.
The drag and drop being missing, and also the grouping of icons.
Super! Thanks for providing that link. 1 minute to download, 1 minute to install and no more grouped task bars.
Took another 1 minute to donate!
Marc
- Someone in Microsoft has followed the philosophy "When You Do Things Right, People Won’t Be Sure You’ve Done Anything at All". Which is terible for everyone.
They remove the feature. Then later add it back to be looked like heroes who listen to the customers.- Odinstaluj to gówno jakim jest Windows 11 i wróć do Windows 10.
- Windows 11 is of course still in development, so suggest you log this feedback in the feedback hub as a "suggestion"
Windows is always 'in development', i.e. they keep making updates. But it's not a beta version or something. It'll stay that way until they release Win12 which will no doubt have all the same issues as Win11 and older versions, along with some new ones.
This is by far the WORST DECISION Microsoft could have made.
- Its hard developing an OS that fits the needs of everyone. Ideally what we need is options that lets every customise where they need it.
For the best way to feedback on your personal experience, I suggest either (or both), becoming a Windows Insider (which you do from settings, Windows Update) and leaving feedback via the Windows Feedback hub.
There are several themes on this and on a recent Community call - this was highly requested.
https://aka.ms/AAil456
