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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.
It's unproductive! (I am 100% aware that this comment is duplicate of many - by design, as much useless as always grouping taskbar buttons...)
This is a 100% make or break feature for me, other things bother me but nothing as much as this...as far as I've seen anyway. I feared this would happen when i saw taskbar items combined by default in windows 10 and it appears my fears were not unfounded.
This is not only a productivity nightmare to force combination for a number of applications but i dare say a power user necessity and I say that as someone who runs multi instance applications for a variety of work and personal tasks. This affects my job as well as I cannot depend on third party scripts, regedit, etc to bring this back and I know due to Win 10's EOL that 11 will become mandatory in enterprise environments. It has to remain a core feature.
Desktop Engineers
Network Admins
Spreadsheet Jockeys
People who respond to hundreds of emails a day
Developers
and on and on and on are all potentially affected by this.
Microsoft needs to recruit a power user community and engage with the general tech community in meaningful discussions instead of seemingly only appealing to lowest common denominator and/or casual users. I'm not saying they can't engage with more average home user, they absolutely should. That's how you increase market share.
However Microsoft, those are not your only users. Those are the " Windows Home" users. Start making "Windows Pro" about the pros and engage the enterprise community as well allow the selection of things like this to be determined by group policy in enterprise versions. Otherwise what is the purpose of different windows versions other than a cost barrier model for seemingly random features? Am i missing something here?
I'd even be willing to pay more for a true "pro" version of Windows. Start tailoring to your wide and diverse user base like many other developers are doing these days.
Is that really too much to ask?
This is not only a productivity nightmare to force combination for a number of applications but i dare say a power user necessity and I say that as someone who runs multi instance applications for a variety of work and personal tasks. This affects my job as well as I cannot depend on third party scripts, regedit, etc to bring this back and I know due to Win 10's EOL that 11 will become mandatory in enterprise environments. It has to remain a core feature.
Desktop Engineers
Network Admins
Spreadsheet Jockeys
People who respond to hundreds of emails a day
Developers
and on and on and on are all potentially affected by this.
Microsoft needs to recruit a power user community and engage with the general tech community in meaningful discussions instead of seemingly only appealing to lowest common denominator and/or casual users. I'm not saying they can't engage with more average home user, they absolutely should. That's how you increase market share.
However Microsoft, those are not your only users. Those are the " Windows Home" users. Start making "Windows Pro" about the pros and engage the enterprise community as well allow the selection of things like this to be determined by group policy in enterprise versions. Otherwise what is the purpose of different windows versions other than a cost barrier model for seemingly random features? Am i missing something here?
I'd even be willing to pay more for a true "pro" version of Windows. Start tailoring to your wide and diverse user base like many other developers are doing these days.
Is that really too much to ask?