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huali1405
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Jul 03, 2021
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How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?

How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?
  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
    Jul 30, 2024
    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.
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demeritcowboy
Copper Contributor
Nov 16, 2023
I've been following this thread since Dec 2021 and I finally see the option now. It seems to be different for everybody when you receive whatever update fixes it. For me it looks like it came with https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/november-14-2023-kb5032190-os-builds-22621-2715-and-22631-2715-f9e3e13c-5e98-42c2-add8-f075841ca812 on Nov 14. It says " New! This update adds “never combined” mode. In this mode, you can view application windows and their labels on the taskbar separately. To find this feature, go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors.Set Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels to Never. Also, there is a separate setting for turning this on for other taskbars when you use multiple monitors."
  • CassRT's avatar
    CassRT
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 16, 2023
    I appreciate your post, but I'm still not willing to download Win11. I hope it improves, but as long as Win 10 is supported, I can't see any reason to go through the agony of trying to find where MS has hidden the common elements of the OS.
    • drdoug's avatar
      drdoug
      Iron Contributor
      Nov 17, 2023

      CassRT I agree totally, MS do it every time, they never consider the productivity loss of having to learn where they have hidden some settings this time. As an example, I like many people use an open source DNS and every incarnation has a different way of locating the settings. 

       

      MS The Multiple Sclerosis of operating systems.

      I keep telling myself I need to invest the time into setting up one PC on Linux to see if I should just move on.

       

       

  • Richard Duggan's avatar
    Richard Duggan
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 16, 2023

    demeritcowboy And yet you STILL can't have small taskbar buttons or other productivity features that were part of Windows 10. Microsoft: The Go Backwards Company.

    • dylanrjames's avatar
      dylanrjames
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 28, 2023
      Yeah, this is really pathetic. It's taken Microsoft YEARS to address this, and they STILL didn't include the smaller taskbar buttons. I'm not migrating to an OS that insists on doubling the amount of space it wastes on my screen. Not to mention all the other glaring problems in 11.

      Oh well, just another example of Microsoft absolutely fumbling every alternating Windows release. Hopefully 12 will be more sane. If not, then hopefully Linux gaming actually becomes reasonable before they EOL windows 10.
      • WillySkj's avatar
        WillySkj
        Iron Contributor
        Nov 29, 2023
        For second time I updated to windows 11 but downgraded to windows 10 almost immediately. Missing small taskbar buttons makes the taskbar consuming to much space. Number of taskbar buttons is limited (not autosized as in win10) so the rest is hidden behind a 3 dotted mark you must klick on to view windows above of the rest of open applications. Free teams working in win10 is not working in win11. So - still stick to win10. Upgraded to Win11 at home because of bigger monitor (43") an use of google meet.
    • WillySkj's avatar
      WillySkj
      Iron Contributor
      Nov 28, 2023

      Richard Duggan 
      Totally agree, no small icons in taskbar makes the taskbar consume to much space of the screen.
      With fewer lines of code visible as a result.  😞 

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