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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.
Hi huali1405
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2022/07/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22621-440-and-22622-440/
I have good information The Microsoft team is working on improving the taskbar in the Insider Program, this is an excerpt from the published Blog:
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Taskbar Overflow
We’re reintroducing taskbar overflow, with a newly designed experience for Windows 11. This taskbar experience has been thoughtfully crafted to offer you a more productive switching and launching experience when space is constrained. Your taskbar will automatically transition into this new overflow state when it has hit its maximum capacity. In this state, taskbar will offer an entry point to an overflow menu that allows you to view all your overflowed apps in one space. "
- This is the dumbest thing I've read in a long time!!!!! This does absolutely nothing to address the 36 PAGES of complaints! I don't see a feasible way to fill the taskbar in its current useless state so this solves a problem that will never occur! Get your resources back to reinstating the Never Combine Taskbar option! Talk to anyone who actually does work on their computer and they can quite quickly explain to you how the new taskbar in counter productive and extremely hard to work with!
Hi MNNick183
"This is the dumbest thing I've read in a long time!!!!!"
Perhaps!
But it looks like there won't be any major improvements in this regard!
Previously, there were no ideas for any change, so the community should be informed.
- I agree, I'm just frustrated because this significantly impacts my productivity.
- Pretty laughable since this overflow feature is something that is in Windows 10.
- I initially just laughed because the overflow feature is in Win 10, but then I read the blog again. What the H does this mean: "taskbar will offer an entry point to an overflow menu that allows you to view all your overflowed apps in one space. " It sounds like more mouse clicking to me. So, you then need to click on the "entry point" to get to another space to view your overflow?? Just add another line, like the taskbar does in Win 10. Really, I don't want another entry point to another space that I will have to open up. The MS designers have really run out of ideas and are just coming up with more steps to get the same amount of work done!
Unfortunately, I upgraded to Windows 11.
Discovered the "never combine taskbar buttons" problem.
I therefore immediately downgraded to Windows 10, but now there is a problem with Windows Update. So this has become a security issue. Thanks to Microsoft for not listening to its customers and users. In any case, I will not use windows 11 until "never combine taskbar buttons" is in place. If it is not fixed before support for Windows 10 ends, I will have to find another solution.
- No one asked here for an overflow area. We have ultrawide desktops where it is absolutely imposible to fill the taskbar width. What I want back is the ability to fill that area, ie ungrouping apps, making their titles visible and if possible making icons next to the clock enabled by default.
Some like, design based on landscape mode users.
