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huali1405
Jul 03, 2021Bronze Contributor
How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?
How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?
- Jul 30, 2024The 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.
BrianJ2290
Jul 20, 2024Copper Contributor
This doesn't help all the time and still leads to an unstable situation where Windows 11 will repeatedly and randomsly gow back and forth to group and ungroup icons in the taskbar tray depending on if you exceed a certain set number of open files or close one or two. It's frustating because sometimes even when you don't increase the files that are opened it will suddnely and randomly decide to group them, but a few seconds later it ungroups them. I just saw this happening while writing this comment, though I was not doing anything to those files. This happens even when there is a large amount of open taskbar space that shouldn't necessitate the groups action. Has anyone else experienced this? netpoint935
MSRX92
Jul 20, 2024Iron Contributor
BrianJ2290 "This doesn't help all the time and still leads to an unstable situation where Windows 11 will repeatedly and randomsly gow back and forth to group and ungroup icons in the taskbar tray depending on if you exceed a certain set number of open files or close one or two."
Yes, while it works correctly most of the time for me, occasionally it will suddenly put half my icons in the overflow bar, even though half my taskbar is empty. No idea what sets this off, but the fix seems to be shutting down all my programs and then reopening them.
- drdougJul 20, 2024Iron Contributor
MSRX92 The behaviour you are describing suggests that you have the combine taskbar setting set to "when taskbar is full", if so change it to Never.
- MSRX92Jul 20, 2024Iron Contributordrdoug "The behaviour you are describing suggests that you have the combine taskbar setting set to "when taskbar is full", if so change it to Never."
Thank you for the response. I wasn't sure, but I check and my setting was set to "never." I think it is a Windows glitch, it only happens once every few weeks or so, so just a mild annoyance.