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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.
I created a profile just for the sake of adding my complaint to this thread. It angers me every day now that I can't see which window I want to open. It is so slow. PLEASE give me back the uncollapsed icons with the title next to it on the taskbar. I'm seriously considering switching to Mac due to this one thing. Do Mac computers have this option? huali1405
The easiest switch to make is to a clean install of Windows10. There are no extra benefits I can see to working with Windows11 and they persist with this one major drawback. It’s a hassle to get your content, preferences and settings back to the way they were but once it’s done the ease-of-use and the efficiency of switching between applications and between instances of the same app makes the effort so worthwhile.
I’ll come back to 11 in 2025 to see if they’ve added proper functionality by then.