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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.
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I'm having the same problem.... the lack of this option, it's unproductive and it's making me think go back to installing Windows 10huali1405
I agree, this is insane. I love how in each version, Microsoft makes little changes to force you to work the way they think that you should (rather than letting the customer decide). Searches with fewer options to force you into doing boolean searches (the Windows XP search still finds things better than Windows 11). In Windows 10 it defaulted to grouping taskbar buttons, but if you knew where to look you could un-do it. Of course with this version they now force it on you, because someone at Microsoft decides that you can work more efficiently this way. It is the exact opposite of selling the customer what they want to buy.
- That's really important feature to work properly, clean and fast.
In current win11 interface - when all opened windows stacked in one button - I just have enormous troubles to find what I want/need while staying focused at this task. I mean, when I try to search - often - I just keep forgetting what I was needed in the process. And then I open previous window again, and then I try to remember, what i was need, and then I try to find the window I need again and again... and again.... and spend ridiculously MUCH MORE AMOUNT OF TIME than easy finding while staying with uncombined windows on win10.
I really looked forward to use win11, but I just really find it lacking much of usability and UX than on previous win 10. So i reverted to win 10, because i need option to uncombine windows and customisable contextual menu on right click - Please bring this back.
Maybe it can help if you SEE how grown-ups work. People not on tablets. People not on 15" laptops with single screens working from a table at Starbucks. But actual professional in real offices, with real workstations having 2-4 monitors ranging from 1920 to 4k. Trying to FORCE conservation of task bar is ludicrous for people in professional environments on ultrawide monitors etc. Even with all the items open in the screenshot above I still have 1/3 of my task bar as open free space. If I get so busy that I fill that either: (A) it can auto combine or (B) I'll just move some tasks to another monitor and have Visual Studio on monitor 1 and all the Windows Explorer windows on monitor 3.... etc.
Great example .. that is how I work as well. Sometimes I even make make my task bar 2 rows high so I can see everything expanded enough to read them. it is easy to have 20 plus items double stacked and still be able to tell what is going on and find stuff easily. This is not a feature to toss out using the seldom used or 80/20 rule.
- This feature needs to come back, unbelievable that they removed the option...
- Removing the "never combine" option is really annoying as it slows down my productivity.
Likewise not having the search text box in the task bar.
MS have made it slower to navigate between apps, I actually want to revert back to Windows 10 now.- This missing feature is the reason I have not upgraded my Primary PC. It's a sizable hit to productivity and simply wastes huge amounts of screen space. An ultra widescreen monitor with just small icons is useless to me. I prefer a taskbar that lets me easily manage my active tasks rather than just be a simplistic hot bar.
I have windows 11 installed on my Surface tablet and I find having multiple windows open in a single app to be annoying to use.
- Please bring back "never combine" or "combine when full" options for the task bar. This is extremely frustrating when you have numerous of the same window open (e.g. Notepad) trying to figure out from the tile view which is which.
- Yesssss. Asap.
Terrible been taken away
- It's a bit offensive that the operating system called Windows makes it so difficult to select the window I'm working on.
- One might even call it 'ironic'.
I'm still of the opinion the root of this is from outsource engineers on single screen 15" laptops and Surface tablets. The vector to merge tablet and PC operation into a single unified OS has resulted in a minimum-common-denominator result. If a tablet can't do it, then nobody can. If a tablet needs combined tabs then the guy sporting two 32" ultra-wide monitors is just sh*t out of luck.
At this rate, by the time Windows12 hits the market we'll all be using a WindowsPhone metaphor on our desktops.- i'm relatively new to these forums. does Microsoft monitor them to see how many are feeling? do they ever reply? with useful information like when this will be fixed?
- Two steps forward, three steps back with Microsoft. Every time.
