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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 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.
CassRT WD may honour the warranty without a receipt as they know the production date from the serial number. This would be especially so in the case of a model that has a known issue.
As to the one month warranty by the repairer, you won't use them again. They however have supplied you a drive with 5 years warranty and although they may not cover labour the drive they sold should simply be replaced. They will probably say as you took it out they no longer are responsible, but that is BS. I don't know what country you are in or what the laws regarding such things are. Here in Oz we have a statutory warranty that means an item or repair should last as long as a reasonable person would expect and as the drive has 5 years then the whole warranty would be at least 5 years. Fighting them is another thing.
I hope you paid for the repair by credit card and it is less than 6 months ago. If so you can raise a recharge with your credit card provider on the basis you did not get what you paid for, refusal of replacement/repair of faulty item under warranty. Stick to your guns that if the SSD has 5 years warranty that they cannot say our warranty is only 30 days.
Your credit card provider will be on your side, I have had them fix quite a few issues for me and as such I always pay by credit card. So they get a loyal customer out of it which is the purpose of them taking your side. Credit Cards may be the last place left that the customer is number 1.
BTW I personally never buy another WD drive, I have had numerous issues and I do not like how you cannot use other drives in WD cases and that WD portable drives cannot be removed from the case and used in other cases, bays etc (the sata-usb interface is integral to the drive so if it fails and the drive is still ok you still throw the whole drive away. Now this is my personal opinion and yes other drives fail etc. AS far as SSDs I like Samsung, but there are other good brands.
drdoug I wanted to get back to you because you were so instrumental in my contacting Wester Digital regarding the warranty on my blown hard drive. I communicated with WD via email, sent photos, received a pre-paid shipping label from them and shipped back the crashed hard drive. Then ... nothing. Weeks went by and then Friday, I received a UPS shipment of a little box. Inside was a replacement hard drive. I still have to install it into the external drive enclosure I purchased when all this crap happened, but hopefully it will work and I will use it as an external drive. Thanks for your ideas.
- Re: BTW: Because I wasn't sure if I would be successfull with the SSD installation, I used a brand I had never heard of. It was in the reasonable price range, from TEAMGROUP. The reviews seemed good. One person said that their drive failed in 6 months, but that was the only failure I saw. I figure if the drive lasts 6 months, it would have lasted longer than the repair drive and if I were to be successful in my installation, I could do it again. It has made me more conscious about saving my work to another drive. I have to say I have never had a HDD failure while I was using the computer. I was taken by surprise that my original SSD failed after 3 years. I have working 15 year old laptops that still fire up (slowly) and load.
- I don't want to cause trouble for the small business of laptop repair. I won't contest the charge. I figure the failure prompted me to learn how to do my own repairs and I will chalk up the rest of the cost to experience. I did contact them today, told the person who answered the phone that this drive has a history of failure per the WD community thread. He minimized that information, but did say that they have now switched to installing Kingston drives. He asked if I was able to install Windows and seemed surprised that I had a bootable recovery disk. The software is not a problem for me. He sent me a copy of my invoice and I have opened up an incident report with Western Digital. We'll see where that goes.