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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.
Maybe it can help if you SEE how grown-ups work. People not on tablets. People not on 15" laptops with single screens working from a table at Starbucks. But actual professional in real offices, with real workstations having 2-4 monitors ranging from 1920 to 4k. Trying to FORCE conservation of task bar is ludicrous for people in professional environments on ultrawide monitors etc. Even with all the items open in the screenshot above I still have 1/3 of my task bar as open free space. If I get so busy that I fill that either: (A) it can auto combine or (B) I'll just move some tasks to another monitor and have Visual Studio on monitor 1 and all the Windows Explorer windows on monitor 3.... etc.
Great example .. that is how I work as well. Sometimes I even make make my task bar 2 rows high so I can see everything expanded enough to read them. it is easy to have 20 plus items double stacked and still be able to tell what is going on and find stuff easily. This is not a feature to toss out using the seldom used or 80/20 rule.
