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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.
- I'm having the same problem.... the lack of this option, it's unproductive and it's making me think go back to installing Windows 10
- Chiming in to say I, too, really want this option back in Windows 11.
- Came here just to leave my reply and like this comment. My workflow is slower because of the lack of this feature
- Why are you copying Apple's **bleep** design standards? The people using Windows have been using Windows because they prefer the way it does things like this. You're just turning your OS into a worse version of MacOS - Mac users won't use it because it's worse, and you're alienating the people that actually use your OS. You're shooting yourselves in the foot.
- Please bring back never combine option! It's unproductive! I have installed windows 10 again. OMG Microsoft!
- There is a hack available to resolve this, but it forces the classic start menu.
Do a web search, you'll find it.
Add me to the list of disgruntled users, Microsoft. Allow us to never combine taskbar tabs again, please!- > but it forces the classic start menu
So you're saying it fixes TWO problems at once.
Great!
- Lack of the option to turn it off & on is frustrating. Evenmore, I'm unable to install 10' from the receovery option. Seems like it was a wrong decision upgrading without fully reading their manual.
100% agree, I have accidentally closed entire window groups more times that I can count in the past month. I haven't reverted to 10 yet but very close to. Come on MS, lets get this fixed. psychedelicu
For god sake Microsoft, return the NEVER COMBINE option in the taskbar.
1st, it's killing my productivity. can't switch between Visual Studio instances fast
2nd, I can't see any error or exception messages when happen if I was working on different app.
huali1405 The "Never Combine" option needs to come back. Currently the Win11 Taskbar is a boring waste of space on the left and right of the centered icons.......(unless 1. Users fill up the entire taskbar with Shortcuts, 2. Microsoft brings back "Never Combine,' and/or 3. Microsoft adds more features to the Taskbar (more Lists-e.g. Recent, Scrolling Tickers, Multiple Customizable Start Menus???)
Win11 has nothing new except the stupid start menu. Does Microsoft Windows team know anything about UX?
They just copied Mac style to make it 'beautiful' and don't care anything about users
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'..don't care about users' - where have you been for the last 30yrs? Of course Microsoft doesn't care about users!
- OMG .. Nailed It !!!!
Microsoft ... really soiled the sheets on this one ... I structured my work around the taskbar years ago and Windows 11 provides NO REASONABLE ALTERNATIVE !!!
- this is ridiculous, please bring this feature back!!!!!
- I will never upgrade to windows 11 until this feature is back.
- I wish I had enough foresight to avoid this problem. It's crazy how corporations are ready to make judgement calls about how to manage your desktop. I need to look into possibilities to downgrade to Win10, but I doubt a good one exists.
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- yes, please bring this feature back!!!!!
- Using 3rd party tools to bring it back breaks a bunch of other things. smiley shortcut, snipping tool, etc... Still trying to use it, but experience is certainly broken. Just bring the ungroup option back.
- Please bring back never combine option. It's not possible to multitask without this option.
- For me, it's acceptable while win11 is slower than win10. But it's hard to accept for no feature "never combine taskbar buttons". I can't work with multi-tab Excel and Word. Should I go back to Win10?
- Windows 11 is still under testing and evaluation and depending on the hardware configuration , users might expect different performance. The ultimate goal of the Windows team is to make it faster but in case it is slow, the user need to share a feedback so Windows team would investigate and Windows 11 will send anonymous and automated data about performance to the team too.
My laptop is new and seems to be nice (i7-8550U - 16G), I have been installing the insider version of Windows 11 for a few days, but I also feel that win 11 is (significantly) slower than 10.
- I would always expect a newer OS to run slower on the same old hardware. I don't have a problem with that. That's the cost we've always paid for major upgrades. But I do have a problem with Microsoft disabling a setting which is not a "feature", but an expected configuration. Give it back!
