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huali1405

Bronze Contributor

Jul 02, 2021

Solved

How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?

Heather_Poulsen
Jul 30, 2024
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.

cell001uk

Copper Contributor

Jan 07, 2022

NEVER COMBINE, SHOW LABELS. I can't believe this. I'm a software developer and often have multiple instances of my IDE open, and I need to be able to see which window is which. Why on earth do they think crippling basic usability features is a good idea?

tlhintoq
Iron Contributor
Jan 10, 2022
All of this was coded by foreign outsourcers. And I'm not saying they are bad, or unskilled or any of that. Just that they are not paid like US developers.

I'll bet real US dollars they are all on 15"-17" laptops. Working in a single screen small environment. The idea of a 32" ultra wide as your 2nd & 3rd monitors is a luxury only the ultra wealthy there can even conceive of.

Its just not in their universe of conceivability to think how people with larger monitors even work.