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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.
Thank you for your reponse! Yes, I did install a SSD. Interesting that you suggested reformatting the old drive. Yesterday, I was trying to figure out how to dispose of the old drive and stumbled across the idea of an external enclosure for the old SSD. They are not very expensive, so I ordered one from Amazon. I should receive it today. I'm anxious to see what went wrong with the old SSD. It is a Western Digital which is a name I would ordinarily trust. The fact that it failed after 3 months, I found very disturbing. Now, I'm looking at other old laptops I have in the house. There was one that I loved, an Acer E1-111. It was small, light and could be carried easily. It has an HDD. My nephew had installled the 8 gb of RAM I purchased when I got the machine. I found a YouTube video of someone who had swapped a HDD to a SDD in the very same machine and I'm curious about my own ability to do so. I have always loved gadgets and the computer is certainly the king of gadgets. Thank you again for your support.
8gb and an SSD should make that machine very usable! It's amazing what a huge difference an SSD drive can make over magnetic. Go for it, and don't look back!
Also, MS, please don't chicken out, and release the "Never Combine" feature for Windows 11, and make all these nice people happy!! 🙂
Also, MS, please don't chicken out, and release the "Never Combine" feature for Windows 11, and make all these nice people happy!! 🙂
- Also, I'll let you know if I decide to upgrade the old Acer. I am an old woman, soon to be 75, loved computers from the beginning of office use and now considering how much of my retirement I should spend on computer upgrades. My husband is NOT excited about the idea!
- The hardest part of the SSD install on notebooks is the opening up the case. but older computers had a door you could open by removing a few screws. Clone the old drive to the new one before removing the old one, to reduce the work of reinstalling windows.
Make sure power is not connected and Notebook is turned off and if the battery is the old removable type, take it out.
BTW: by the sound of what you say the old drive you just replaced may be still under warranty if it is faulty. Contact the person who installed it for you- Very interesting that you suggested I look into a warranty. Yes, indeed, there is a 5 year limited warranty on the drive. What really intrigued me was reading the customer thread titled: "WD Blue SA510 fails completely after just four months," exactly my story. That model number is the one that was inserted into my computer. One person (must be an IT guy) wrote that he had 34 of them that were all defective. Another wrote that "we" (must be the business) "We started buying the WD BLUE SA510… 90% of them have stopped working. ...We won’t ever buy this model again."
I called the repair place. They had only guaranteed their work for 30 days and I think I threw out the receipt after 30 days. Unfortunately, they are not open on Mondays, but someone answered the phone, suggested I call back tomorrow and they will send a copy of my receipt via email. Also, I received the SDD externa casing, installed the "crashed" SDD and after some time, received the following error message: "The last USB drive you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it." It appears that drive is FUBAR. After I receive the receipt, I will be contacting WD.
- Funny to think about the flood of new computer purchases if the "Never Combine" feature was actually put into Windows 11!
