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Iron Contributor

Oct 06, 2021

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Windows 11 taskbar labels

I was eager to install the official Windows 11 release today, however upon reading first I noticed that ungrouping taskbar icons / showing labels is not available anymore in Windows 11. Why the h...

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TorbenLarche
Nov 17, 2021
It looks like the perfect way - but it doesn't work here. I set the value to 2 and after restart and then checking it was set to 2 - but still no labels. Do you have any ideas? aBuntobox

RobertPatrician

Copper Contributor

Feb 02, 2023

This is particularly infuriating if you're visually impaired, because I needed that text to see what I was clicking instead of trying to identify the tiny icons. Instead of having the text across the entire bottom, it's all condensed into one corner... and thus it's wasting all the space at the bottom. This is the sort of behavior that makes me start looking into alternative operating systems.
Funny enough, there is now third party software to restore the functionality they stripped out.

sunnyrio

Brass Contributor

Feb 02, 2023

RobertPatrician Startallback (free but with a minor pestering dialog on startup, and a frowning face on the start menu, or just pay a few dollars) returns the taskbar and start menu to any version of windows you like and puts back in all the customisations. I dislike the modern way. I do things simply. To start a program, I use the most recent apps in the start menu (I set it to 15 of them), anything not on there, I just start typing the name. The taskbar is not for icons, it's for running programs, with labels written in English, why should I remember the icon for every single program I use? Why should I not be able to tell if it's a link or a running program? As for the desktop, just like a real desk, I use that for temporary things only. No icons plastered all over it to start programs, which I can't see if there's a program running full screen!