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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.
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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.
- ...and speaking for the home user - I don't want 3rd party "fixes" either! I'm not a power user and do NOT want to be thinking of installing, uninstalling, and modifying the OS. I still work with many windows open at a time, and still want the ability to NOT combine windows. I wish those that advocate "fixing" this with 3rd party software would realize that the reason so many have posted here is not because they want a 3rd party solution, it's because MS needs to change this themselves. They had a useful option (never combine), and they took it away. They need to bring it back. 3rd party solutions are NOT on my radar, for many of the same reasons advocated above about long term viability of 3rd party software vs. MS support.
