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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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- Microsoft, for the love of everything holy, restore this feature immediately to Windows 11 please. My company just forced an update. And the lack of this feature adds an est. 30 minutes to each workday for me. Not to mention eyestrain + exacerbated wrist pain from extra mousing.
I agree with everyone here! Windows 11 is terrible. If I wanted an Apple or Mac, I would get one. Why would Microsoft copy this feature? This makes multitasking impossible if you are a power user and have many windows and programs open to work, I should not need to take extra steps to figure out which icon and go through a list of titles to figure out what window I was on. Get rid of this new feature or provide the option to not combine. My productivity has gone down drastically since I have to spend time figuring out what I was looking for or trying to do in the first place.
- I am here to add my voice to the others.
- The tech media has not mentioned it at all while they've mentioned things like drag-and-dropping files to apps on the taskbar multiple times. So maybe it's just us. 😞
I'm checking in here every couple months to see if there is news about this - has anyone heard anything from Microsoft? or are we just a niche of sentimental anachronists?
- Same issue here, tried to get onboard with win11 for two agonizing days, rolled back to 10 because of this taskbar fiasco, with honorable mention to the start menu that hasn't been useful since 7.
Please bring back Never Combine apps!!!
It is so inefficient and wasteful to click something just to see a list of what you're looking for and then have to click a second time when you could just have everything visually displayed (not combined) and click once on exactly what you're looking for!!!!!!!
My productivity took a big dive when I installed Windows 11 on my new computer. I have to use more clicks to do the same things and it is almost impossible to work with the new small and grouped taskbar in Windows 11. So frustrating!!!
Setting the "Combine when taskbar is full" it the first thing I would change when starting to work on a new computer or installing Windows.
Now I'm going to have to install Windows 10 instead on my new computer and wait for "Combine when taskbar is full" feature and the possibility to resize the taskbar's width to be implemended in Windows 11.
It's so unproductive and a waste of space this new Windows 11 taskbar!- The windows 11 taskbar is the worst taskbar in all systems’
I created a profile just for the sake of adding my complaint to this thread. It angers me every day now that I can't see which window I want to open. It is so slow. PLEASE give me back the uncollapsed icons with the title next to it on the taskbar. I'm seriously considering switching to Mac due to this one thing. Do Mac computers have this option? huali1405
The easiest switch to make is to a clean install of Windows10. There are no extra benefits I can see to working with Windows11 and they persist with this one major drawback. It’s a hassle to get your content, preferences and settings back to the way they were but once it’s done the ease-of-use and the efficiency of switching between applications and between instances of the same app makes the effort so worthwhile.
I’ll come back to 11 in 2025 to see if they’ve added proper functionality by then.
- I'm having the same problem ~ PLEASE bring the ungroup option back. The lack of this option is so frustrating and I want to go back to Windows 10. Add me to the list of disgruntled users. Microsoft, PLEASE bring back never combine option. It's not possible to multitask without this option.
