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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.
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?
But is this a matter of Pro vrs Home or anything else? The default in at least windows 10 and maybe even w7 was to combine the buttons. I hated that and it took almost no time before I went digging and found the setting to break them back out the way we all like. When I saw the w11 taskbar in the middle, I thought, yuck. Then someone mentioned, well, you can move that, but there are other taskbar problems. I finally "upgraded" on one of my laptops. I eventually moved the taskbar, but I was horrified when I found out what the other taskbar problems are. It's unacceptable. I regret the upgrade on the one machine I did. I am really fortunate that ms got WSL2 working in w10. I was close to upgrading my best machine just for wsl2.
No more upgrades for me and I would like to downgrade the one that I did upgrade.
My suspicions? This is pure laziness on the part of marketing again. They tested and found that lots of the idiot, er, excuse me, typical users like the buttons combined. They didn't ask enough users and they didn't BOTHER to finish the job and add the option.
All I can say is...
FIX IT!
yes, just... FIX IT!
We want it fixed.I think it's pretty obvious from the responses here. We HATE the combined buttons. HATE. As in, despise. As in, we don't want them combined. As in...
FIX IT!!!!!
"Build 23419 introduces new USB4 Settings page, LKD creation in Task Manager, more.."
Never combine taskbar buttons? NO!
rafagricola Hi,
Can you explain to everyone - how USB4, and LKD relate to the -> topic of this thread?
I don't think that's the case!
