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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.
It is 6 months since they rolled out windows 11 . They have not yet made this correction . How much longer should we wait
How much longer should we wait until what? Until we go back to using W10? We can do that for a while, but Microsoft has already announced the date when support for W10 ends. At the end of the day they hold all the cards. We either use whatever flavour of Windows they feed us, or we use iOS or Linux - not great choices and not getting any better as time goes on. Unless someone comes up with something better (oh, if only I had unlimited time and funding...), I'm afraid we're stuck with whatever they throw our way. All we can do is make our feelings known via forums like this and hope that someone notices and cares enough to do something.
- You know your computer doesn't sudden die even if the OS is no longer supported, right? Just means they stop feeding updates. Do you know how many people still run Windows7 out in the wild? TONS!
Windows 10 won't be truly *obsolete* for another decade. It will continue to run on whatever machine you have right now for years and years. I have machines more than 10 years old that work fine. Most machines are never pushed to even 50% of their capacity. You'll be able to use Win10 machines long after end-of-support even if its just as your dedicated living room entertainment PC and web browser: Which honestly is probably 80% of the demographic out there.
The other 20% of the power users - the developers, the artists, the CAD folks, that push their machines to limits - are going to be years before they replace a $7,000 powerhouse workstation anyway. You don't discard a 12core i9 with 128gig of RAM like a pair of sneakers.
So don't worry about what OS you'll be using 10 years from now, until you actually are at point where your machine is so brutally slow its not reasonable to use it - or until software you have to use for a living will no longer run on OS10.
Until that day - stop letting your imagination about the future panic you.- A fine sentiment and it's one that I held onto myself for a good while following the loss of support for XP (which was a great OS), but an OS is only as useful as the applications that you run on it and I soon discovered that even though there was no technical reason why new applications could not run on XP, nevertheless Microsoft changed all the installers so as to reject installing onto XP as soon as it was out of support. Not a problem if you happen to already have downloaded an old installer, but there were enough new applications and technologies of interest that I wanted to play with, and I was also finding that even where I still liked the old applications they steadily became incompatible with the evolving world around them, and so I was forced to upgrade to W7 (which thankfully turned out not to be too bad at all). And this is the ongoing issue - as long as you're happy and able to keep using old applications and your digital hygiene is good, then yes it's practical to keep using an OS after it's out of support, but sadly I have found that the constraints of the real world interrupt what would otherwise be a happy reverie.
Having said that, the shell (of which the taskbar is part) is just one part of Windows - it's the executable "explorer.exe" (the Windows/File Explorer). Writing an alternative to just that would be a big enough job, but not impossibly big. It would be nice to have a decent (and functionally stable) graphical shell.
Being afraid to become repetitive, please try Explorer patcher which solves the problem for good.
Get it from https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Explorer-Patcher-for-Windows-11.shtml
- It solves the problem for now, and only for some. Commercial environments won't use it due to the lack of support. There are very strict requirements for commercial support licensing and installing 3rd party OS patching is absolutely not permitted. There's no guarantee the makers of Explorer Patcher will keep it up to date and compatible with future Windows updates so it could stop working properly at some point in the future and in a commercial setting that could take down the entire workforce (worst case) and they would have no support from MS and I doubt the creators of Explorer Patcher would help much either. My company conducted a trial with Windows 11 and this issue was the main reason it wasn't adopted. The various solutions were discussed but ultimately found to be too risky, in violation of support licensing and lack of commercial licensing/support for the solution products. So for the home user, great, it's a viable solution for the time being but it's not a catch-all solution for everyone and never will be. The only true resolution is for MS to canonically restore the feature.
