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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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Adding my complaint to the list. Pernille-Eskebo has forgotten their customers aren't teenagers and DJs using Macs. We are business professional who need basic functions that make multi-tasking easier. Why would you remove this feature???
- Yes Pernille-Eskebo please ring back "never combine taskbar buttons" again! You really need this option to multi task properly and keep track of what's open on the fly without having to hover over the task bar and the collapsed icon to see what is all open. I also find it dumb how if you have two of the same window open and you snap the windows left and right or wtv way you want that it just duplicates the previews on each icon collapsed seeing the same info double.
- Oh look microsoft could not even reserve their own handler Pernille-Eskebo on their own community lmfao no surprise.
Seriously, please bring back this simple but helpful feature.
huali1405 . Is there any fix yet for this? my Windows upgraded to 11 and now I am straggling with this grouping of task bar. I saw this issue reported since almost a year now but couldn't find any solution.
please helppppp
- No fix. You have to revert to win10 before it's to late.
I reverted to win10 in time and will not install/upgrade to win11 as long as this important functionality is missing.WillySkjthis isn't obviously the solution... It's not about users who upgraded and a simple downgrade (while they can) can fix their problem. We're here too, who bought a new laptop/desktop that came with Windows 11, and who never had the chance to buy it with Windows 10...
So obviously downgrading isn't the right solution... The solution is to have Microsoft hear our voices...
Personally, I'm mad at them, because I purchased a new laptop to do my job while on vacations, and can't use it the way I'm used to because of this problem... Plus, this issue made me not enjoy my purchase and the money I spent on my new laptop because some a$$holes at M$ don't listen to their customers' voices...
This is ridiculous...
And what's even more ridiculous and insane is that instead of adding new features, they removed some that worked well in Win7, Win10... And they call this progress... How crazy is this?
- This needs to be a Windows 11 option. I'm considering uninstalling and reinstalling Windows 10 due to it.
IRKodama you should revert to 10 soon - in 10 days they take that option away from you as well. I waited too long, and am now stuck with 11. After a year, I still hate it - taking away the never combine option has made me miss reminders and meetings in Outlook (the pop-up reminder window is hidden under a group of other Outlook windows), and I'm constantly hunting for the window I want in Excel and other programs. Go back to 10 while you still can!
- This is the only thing that keeps me from upgrading to Windows 11 😞
I'm on 10 months of trying to get used to this and I still haven't! I'll admit sometimes there are changes that just take some getting used to. Let me be clear THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM!!! Please MS fix this! This is beyond counterproductive for any practical business use! Sure it looks pretty, but pretty doesn't pay my bills, being productive does!
- I would like to add my voice to the hundreds of people who hate the fact that Microsoft downgraded the Windows 11 Taskbar and removed functionality that so many of us are used to from previous versions of Windows. The inability to ungroup icons on the task bar is counter-productive and makes it slower and more difficult to multitask.
Richard Rost
MVP 2014-2015
ComputerLearningZone.comI have to wonder who makes these hair-brained decisions. The "geniuses" at Microsoft need to stop focusing so much on how things look and, instead, focus on usability, durability, and performance. Every dev VM I access (until now), the first think I do is choose the setting for small icons on both the desktop and the taskbar and set the "Combine taskbar buttons" to Never.
I agree. Why does Microsoft remove usability features for no **bleep** reason? Bring it back.
I wouldn't have upgraded if I knew that this feature was completely removed. Stop making the OS look shiny at the expense of usability!
- The changes to the Taskbar are probably going to get me switch to Apple, and that's saying something since Apple have ridiculous prices in a walled garden. That being said I bet Apple haven't changed the core functionality of their OS after 20 years. Ridiculous.
huali1405 This is so annoying that I literally unfriended all of my friends who work at Microsoft!!! I'm tired of Microsoft making decisions for me.
