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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'll just add myself to the list of people who find it extremely annoying that functions are being hidden behind multiple layers and making Windows considerably less productive.
Instead of heading straight to the window I want on the taskbar, or being able to see how many I have open instantly, I've got to go down to the bottom and click/hover over the item, and try to work out which one I want.
I always want to be able to see all windows that I have open, at a glance (with no further interaction required), and go directly to the one that I want.
The tray is now nearly as annoying as I keep having to select individual items to not hide. Every time something new is installed/run. Instead of just telling it not to hide anything.
However it's the combining of windows into a single pin that the most annoying and I wish I'd not paid for Windows 11 and just bought a copy of Windows 10.
Unfortunately without this function windows 11 are completely unusable for me. I spend half of my time searching for my tasks, mails, browser windows etc. Just horrible idea and now i have to search how to revert back to win10.