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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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- When will this feature be returned? This is just stupid idiocy! There are no pluses in win11, a complete disappointment!
- Almost 9 months and still no update about this.
Oi microsoft, seriously? - bring it back!
- I've been on Windows 11 for 6 minutes. Discovered this limitation. Going back to Windows 10. See ya!
- Please bring back the "never combine" option back. It is unproductive the way it is. The user know what he wants. You do not. People who wants extreme simplicity goes for Mac, people who uses windows wants the options to customize it. If I wanted something that looks like Mac would buy a Mac.
- Already regret the transition...
- its been almost 9 months...unbelievable... bring the **bleep** back!
JKJKJK1615Just saw this product news (you have to pay for the product, like old shareware, but this time commercial)
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22980730/start11-windows-11-taskbar-ungrouping-features
- That is Start 11 by stardock. I can confirm it works. The taskbar features is still in beta, but it's working for me. I used Start8 back in the windows 8 days so I don't have many concerns about running Start11 now. But, as mentioned it's not free, but It's $5 for a single machine license or $15 for 5 machines.
A nice bonus is, that other than all the other customizations you can do, right clicking on the taskbar gets you a task manager option. No digging through multiple menus to get a simple function.
This has been going on for an completely unreasonable amount of time. When people are resorting to 3rd party DLLs and tools to bring back a feature which was removed for literally no good reason, its time to make a bridge.
- Where is the update from MS for this? Why isn't this being fixed?
Please bring back to WIndows 11 the "never combine" option!
- I second his request. Just installed Windows 11 ... and "it's not there!"
- It is 6 months since they rolled out windows 11 . They have not yet made this correction . How much longer should we wait
- How much longer should we wait until what? Until we go back to using W10? We can do that for a while, but Microsoft has already announced the date when support for W10 ends. At the end of the day they hold all the cards. We either use whatever flavour of Windows they feed us, or we use iOS or Linux - not great choices and not getting any better as time goes on. Unless someone comes up with something better (oh, if only I had unlimited time and funding...), I'm afraid we're stuck with whatever they throw our way. All we can do is make our feelings known via forums like this and hope that someone notices and cares enough to do something.
- You know your computer doesn't sudden die even if the OS is no longer supported, right? Just means they stop feeding updates. Do you know how many people still run Windows7 out in the wild? TONS!
Windows 10 won't be truly *obsolete* for another decade. It will continue to run on whatever machine you have right now for years and years. I have machines more than 10 years old that work fine. Most machines are never pushed to even 50% of their capacity. You'll be able to use Win10 machines long after end-of-support even if its just as your dedicated living room entertainment PC and web browser: Which honestly is probably 80% of the demographic out there.
The other 20% of the power users - the developers, the artists, the CAD folks, that push their machines to limits - are going to be years before they replace a $7,000 powerhouse workstation anyway. You don't discard a 12core i9 with 128gig of RAM like a pair of sneakers.
So don't worry about what OS you'll be using 10 years from now, until you actually are at point where your machine is so brutally slow its not reasonable to use it - or until software you have to use for a living will no longer run on OS10.
Until that day - stop letting your imagination about the future panic you.
