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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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- Wastes 3 seconds for every task change, so in all about at least 1 hour of daily productivity, plus the frustration & negative experience.
MS should bring this feature back ASAP. - Please, please, please Microsoft... Bring the "never combine taskbar buttons" option back!
The new taskbar is absolutely unusable without that option! - I've just upgraded to 11 and am not surprised that MS requires me to do 2 things where I needed only to do 1 in a previous version. PLEASE allow "never combine taskbar buttons" in Windows 11 URGENTLY.
- Why on earth did you disable the "never combine" feature. I can't work with all my windows stuck into groups. It's totally unproductive and a total pain in the a$$. I will make sure to let my IT dpt know about this before they even think about "upgrading" to win 11.
- Desperately waiting for an update that would restore this option again.
- Microsoft are AT LAST working on bringing back the never combine option:
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-is-bringing-back-two-classic-features-for-the-taskbar-on-windows-11
It's taken over 800 comments and 202k views here, plus over 16k upvotes on the issue in the Feedback Hub where it has consistently been the highest trending issue across the entire product.
Well done everyone for piling on the pressure over the last 504 days, and making this an issue that Microsoft could no longer ignore!Microsoft are AT LAST working on bringing back the never combine option:
Unfortunately it also says there will still be no titles or labels, just a bunch of the same icons, so we'll still need to hover over each one to see what it is. That's a huge middle finger up to all of us who are asking for functionality back - a kind of 'following the letter of the law but not the spirit'. Ah well.... I'll wait until it's live then come find the feedback thread asking for labels and we can all give feedback for another 500 days until they fix that, as well
- WOW - so Windows 11 can be expected to be in release version the next year?
Yes, as long as "never combine taskbar buttons" is missing I consider Win 11 to be a beta version. Only for test - not for production. So maybe win11 will be ready for production next year?
Wow, I just upgraded to Win11 after waiting this long for MS to sort out issues only to find very fundamental task bar functionality is missing. Can't ungroup? Seriously? I have a 32" primary monitor and now have at least 18" of blank taskbar sitting idle - what a waste! I can have a fair number of spreadsheets and browser windows open and relied heavily on having each show up on the taskbar for fast switching. Not any more... But I do get unused taskbar space... Don't even get me started on my customized group of icons I created a view for on the Win10 taskbar which I use regularly - also gone with no way to restore. Obviously complaining here doesn't do any good but had to anyway.
I bought a new laptop and because the lack of this option I tried to install Win10 but I had to come back to Win11 because I had missing drivers. Now I have to work on this crazy unproductive OS. Please bring back the option to Never combine, it's really really important. I see that the drag and drop was solved in the last update, one more step and we'll be all happy. You can do it Microsoft!
