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The new toolbar in Windows 11
truus22
Here is a very workable solution:
1) Download & install Explorer++ (https://explorerplusplus.com/)
2) Create a folder that contains your Shortcuts
3) Set your Shortcuts folder as the default Exporor++ folder
4) In Explorer++, set the View options as "List" and "Ignore File Extensions"
5) Size the window to fit around your list of Shortcuts
6) Pin Explorer++ to the Taskbar
That should do it. It isn't as pretty as a Toolbar, but it is the best solution that I have found.
Microsoft - it is really really poor practice to remove functionality that people use daily and have come to rely on.
It takes a long time to configure environments so they work for one and it would be nice to see a little more respect for your user base.- Absolutely agree!
- Yes, very poor but seems to be the general approach in making Windows less flexible. Same with removing Task Manager right click from taskbar (although available on Start button), small icons on taskbar (and appropriate spacing) and forcing two line taskbar clock/date. These simple convenient UI options are slowly being removed.
- indeed, I'm so tired of large corporations removing functionality without any regard for the many people that use it every day.
Just a note that you can access task manager by right clicking over the windows "start" icon on the task bar
I have been a Windows user since version 3.1. It has been a long practice for Microsoft (Apple does it, too) to make usage decisions for us. I am a power user. Most of my Windows friends have never even used File Manager. So, Microsoft makes these changes to cater to the low-end "normal" user instead of the rest of us. It is absolutely a necessity to NOT remove the functionality that more powerful users rely on. Move these features around, but don't get rid of them.
I did leave out one step on my workaround:Set it to a "Single Click" launch method.
