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How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?
How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?
- The November 2023 update added “never combined” mode on the taskbar for Windows 11. To find this feature, go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors. Set Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels to Never. It also added a separate setting for turning this feature on for other taskbars when you use multiple monitors.
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The November 2023 update added “never combined” mode on the taskbar for Windows 11. To find this feature, go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors. Set Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels to Never. It also added a separate setting for turning this feature on for other taskbars when you use multiple monitors. Tôi thì có thể chấp nhận được vì win11 nhân hơn 1.5 lần win10. Nhưng khó mà chấp nhận được vì không có tính năng "không bao giờ kết hợp các nút trên thanh tác vụ". Tôi không thể làm việc với Excel và Word nhiều tab. Tôi có nên quay lại Win10 không?huali1405
- Win 11 does have never combine. If yours doesn't keep updating it till it is there.
I am on Version 23H2 OS build 22631.3880
Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1020.0
and I have had it for a long time.
Also check back through this thread for where to find how to change to never combine, as ever windows changes how things are done even though they should keep the location the same.
- I just got the update to 10.0.22621 and the option disappeared.
- I'm glad this issue has been resolved! The combined buttons were driving me crazy.
i am also facing this issuehuali1405
- Dear Microsoft,
I would like to add my voice to the hundreds of people who hate the fact that Microsoft downgraded the Windows 11 Taskbar and removed functionality that so many of us are used to from previous versions of Windows. The inability to move taskbar location to left/right/top, ungroup icons on the task bar, changing taskbar config for each display, are counter-productive and makes it slower and more difficult to multitask.
Please bring back these features which we all windows lovers were using from many many years.
Regards,
Shivesh While the official Windows 11 feature for permanently disabling taskbar button combing isn't yet released, there are two workarounds. First, set "Combine taskbar buttons" to "When taskbar is full" in Settings > Personalization > Taskbar. Alternatively, use the Registry Editor (advanced method): Create a DWORD value named "Taskbar No Combine" in the "Advanced" key and set it to 1. This requires caution and backing up the Registry first. Wait for the official update if uncomfortable with this method.
- I'll happily give this a try. Would you be so kind as to tell me where in the registry editor I enter this value? Which directory?
Registry changes = crap that doesn't work!
Perform an update to Windows11 23H2
- Thanks for the update. I keep checking in to see if it is worth my time and attention to upgrade to 11. So far, I'm not trying it again. I'll stay on 10 until 11 is worth it.
- Hey Microsoft Dev's! How can you not understand that adding a navigation layer slows down productivity?? Open 12 different Excel sheets and 7 different Word Docs and 5 different Powerpoints, then navigate between them with uncombined buttons....then take away the uncombined buttons and you will see your navigation slow because of the new layer.... perhaps you will have a Eureka moment and insist to put the "never combine" feature BACK!!
Q2director Think it’s already been put back. Not quite the same as in Win10 but it’s better than it was.
- I've been following this thread since Dec 2021 and I finally see the option now. It seems to be different for everybody when you receive whatever update fixes it. For me it looks like it came with https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/november-14-2023-kb5032190-os-builds-22621-2715-and-22631-2715-f9e3e13c-5e98-42c2-add8-f075841ca812 on Nov 14. It says " New! This update adds “never combined” mode. In this mode, you can view application windows and their labels on the taskbar separately. To find this feature, go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors.Set Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels to Never. Also, there is a separate setting for turning this on for other taskbars when you use multiple monitors."
- I appreciate your post, but I'm still not willing to download Win11. I hope it improves, but as long as Win 10 is supported, I can't see any reason to go through the agony of trying to find where MS has hidden the common elements of the OS.
CassRT I agree totally, MS do it every time, they never consider the productivity loss of having to learn where they have hidden some settings this time. As an example, I like many people use an open source DNS and every incarnation has a different way of locating the settings.
MS The Multiple Sclerosis of operating systems.
I keep telling myself I need to invest the time into setting up one PC on Linux to see if I should just move on.
demeritcowboy And yet you STILL can't have small taskbar buttons or other productivity features that were part of Windows 10. Microsoft: The Go Backwards Company.
- Yeah, this is really pathetic. It's taken Microsoft YEARS to address this, and they STILL didn't include the smaller taskbar buttons. I'm not migrating to an OS that insists on doubling the amount of space it wastes on my screen. Not to mention all the other glaring problems in 11.
Oh well, just another example of Microsoft absolutely fumbling every alternating Windows release. Hopefully 12 will be more sane. If not, then hopefully Linux gaming actually becomes reasonable before they EOL windows 10.
- And yet another useless W11 upgrade. Bring this option back. Should never update W10 to 11.
- It is enabled in the latest general release 23H2 .. and it works ! Only taken two and half years since this question was asked.
