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LesBryce
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Jul 30, 2021

Windows 11 Taskbar

When I switch to the smallest taskbar in Windows 11 using registry editor Computer\HKEY_CURRENTUSER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced I choose   "0" value in REG_DWORD  in T...
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vasmarine
Copper Contributor
Nov 28, 2021

Hi everyone. Since there is no coherent answer from MS, I have just used 3rd party interface soft and voila - the clock appeared as you wanted.. 

 

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SaiMorphX
Copper Contributor
Nov 28, 2021

vasmarine What are you using? I use ElevenClock to display the clock on my second monitor, I wouldn't want something that is much more resource intensive than that, it has a 38mb memory footprint, and a 0.2% to 0.8% cpu usage. I'm not interested in resource hogs like stardock (just an example) and such.

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    vasmarine
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 29, 2021
    StartAllBack. Now also for W11. ...may MS forgive me that sin
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      AjTeX1
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 04, 2022
      Hi vasmarine... StartAllBack ! This is an awesome 3rd party App! Everything I needed to edit and the user wants the OS to look and feel! As this is after-all "my" right !! Many thanks
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      SaiMorphX
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 29, 2021
      Thanks for sharing. it does more than I'd want it too, but it's good to know it's there!
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        yigael
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 06, 2021

        SaiMorphX 

        Here's another option worth considering, especially if you want the taskbar to just look like it did in Windows 10.

         

        1. Open regedit.exe
        2. Go to:
             HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

        3. Click on Advanced

        4. Find REG_DWORD titled TaskbarSmallIcons and set it to "1" (default is "0")

        5. Then install ExplorerPatcher from GitHub:

        https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/latest/download/ep_setup.exe


        With those 5 steps I was able to finally get the taskbar in Windows 11 to look small, just like Win10.  And also hide the annoying date next to the clock (which made the taskbar too wide) and without any tray icons looking truncated!  Plus it even enabled me to get my QuickLaunch toolbar back.  For extra credit, I installed OpenShell (https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/) for a few of my older users who don't do well without their Win7 Start menu.

         

        It's amazing how Microsoft thinks it's okay to tick off its customers at every version by forcing them to learn a new UI. It's fine if they want the default UI to look more like MacOS, but geez at least provide options so people can configure it back to their liking. Most of the so-called "hacks" that return Windows to a state of comfortableness simply make changes to keys that are already in the registry.

         

        Yigael

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