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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 CANNOT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE HOW ANNOYING THIS "FEATURE" IS!!!!
Seriously Microsoft. Sure the new look is a nice look. But it is highly impractical to the person who does actual WORK on their computer. To the casual user who wants to leave a zillion windows open and never close them, it's a handy way of organizing. But when I need to rapid fire flip back and forth between multiple word documents, I am constantly frustrated by having to wait with a mouseover and then look on the tiny preview to figure out which was the one I was looking for. It's madness. Seriously Microsoft, just allow users to have the option to "never combine" and we can just use Windows how we want to use Windows. How does that matter to you? If it's an issue that the centered start menu doesn't work so well expanding outward with the taskbar icons with text, you could, oh I don't know, just move the start menu to the left side of the screen like before! Gee, why not just let users customize?
This kind of thing drives me nuts. Provide by default the user new user experience you want to present, and if you have a few die hards who want to use it the old way, just let them have the option to do so. Especially something as fundamental as this.
Do you want to know why I *don't* use Apple's OS? Because of their stupid grouped taskbar, and their unrelenting quest to force everyone to do things "Apple's Way". Microsoft has always offered more customizability and options. That's your strength. Don't lose it. Don't try to be Apple.
Seriously Microsoft. Sure the new look is a nice look. But it is highly impractical to the person who does actual WORK on their computer. To the casual user who wants to leave a zillion windows open and never close them, it's a handy way of organizing. But when I need to rapid fire flip back and forth between multiple word documents, I am constantly frustrated by having to wait with a mouseover and then look on the tiny preview to figure out which was the one I was looking for. It's madness. Seriously Microsoft, just allow users to have the option to "never combine" and we can just use Windows how we want to use Windows. How does that matter to you? If it's an issue that the centered start menu doesn't work so well expanding outward with the taskbar icons with text, you could, oh I don't know, just move the start menu to the left side of the screen like before! Gee, why not just let users customize?
This kind of thing drives me nuts. Provide by default the user new user experience you want to present, and if you have a few die hards who want to use it the old way, just let them have the option to do so. Especially something as fundamental as this.
Do you want to know why I *don't* use Apple's OS? Because of their stupid grouped taskbar, and their unrelenting quest to force everyone to do things "Apple's Way". Microsoft has always offered more customizability and options. That's your strength. Don't lose it. Don't try to be Apple.