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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.
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.
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.