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.

knick95

Iron Contributor

Oct 29, 2021

Explorer Patcher is an elegant solution and solves the "never combine" problem once and for all.

This program (actually a single dll file) brings back the properties of the good old Win 10 taskbar.

It is an experimental program but it worked fine and without problems for me.

Here are the steps needed:

1. Download the "dxgi.dll" file from https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/tag/22000.258.31.0. (read about it https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher)

2. Place dxgi.dll in C:\Windows

3. Restart Windows

4. Right-click on the Start button brings you the following dialog box.