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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 thought it would come in the 22H2 update, but no. Now it's buy "StartIsBack". Bizarre Microsoft doesn't implement it again.
- Microsoft you have got to be kidding me. This is the single worst idea you have ever had. Why would you take away options and functionality from your users? The underlying code is already in your OS because it can be hacked back in with registry edits. This is just you taking away a basic feature because you want things to look pretty by default on a tablet. News Flash: Tablets suck. Sales people and executives that don't know any better use tablets. Everybody else who does actual work at a computer for their entire day uses a desktop. Don't alienate your primary user base. Goodbye windows 11 hello to you again windows 10. #uninstall
- I just got a Windows 11 computer, and I deeply regret it. Not having this functionality is very weird, and I don't know why MICROSOFT THINKS I DON'T WANT TO SEE ALL OF MY OPEN TABS. PLEASE ADD IT IMMEDIATELY.
This thread has been open for so long, and the feature STILL isn't present. MS is so bad.- I wonder what 3rd party applications exist to add this since MS dropped the ball on this, and show no signs of walking back their mistake.
It really hurts my productivity when I've got 4+ windows open of the same program, and I swap between them quite often, now it's pain to navigate between then using the taskbar.
+1 bring it back!
please bring this option back
- I have waited for this function since the Windows11 released. Actually, I used explorer patcher but it seem not to be official function, and it crash sometime. Microsoft do group the icon make the user take more time to select the windows, it really downgrade...
- I always have used Fedora with Gnome / Cinnamon or i3wm.
But in my work place, they forced me to use windows 10, and recently I got a new laptop with windows 11.
Put up a big fight to allow me to use Fedora with Gnome, primarily because of this lame removal of the option that was present in previous version.Good morning
I would really suggest staying on 11 and using explorer patcher to get back the whole taskbar with the nevercombine icons.
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Shawn
- Going to leave Windows 11.
Windows 10 is way more stable and usable. I bought a new laptop today and faced the same issue...after much frustration due to not having this issue resolved, the workaround I am working with is working with 2 browsers...I have synced both of them for my bookmarks, passwords etc., and now I am able to open desired windows and keep toggling between the 2 browsers...atleast this lets me work the way I used to work on windows 10.
