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huali1405

Bronze Contributor

Jul 03, 2021

Solved

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.

ComputerLearningZone

Brass Contributor

Sep 02, 2022

I would like to add my voice to the hundreds of people who hate the fact that Microsoft downgraded the Windows 11 Taskbar and removed functionality that so many of us are used to from previous versions of Windows. The inability to ungroup icons on the task bar is counter-productive and makes it slower and more difficult to multitask.

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SteveBredall

Copper Contributor

Sep 02, 2022

ComputerLearningZone

I have to wonder who makes these hair-brained decisions. The "geniuses" at Microsoft need to stop focusing so much on how things look and, instead, focus on usability, durability, and performance. Every dev VM I access (until now), the first think I do is choose the setting for small icons on both the desktop and the taskbar and set the "Combine taskbar buttons" to Never.