How to enable 'Never Combine taskbar buttons'. Windows 11 ?

Hi Mousefluff,

For me too, the system tray icons (like the clock and 'One Drive') icons disappeared after using your script.

Also, the script did not work after a computer restart.

Further the labels of the taskbar icons of Notepad, Calculator and Snipping Tool disappeared from the taskbar! I.e., the icons are still pinned to the taskbar as I had them pinned earlier, but their images are missing, due to which visually, it appears that these icons are missing from the taskbar.

I tried executing the script you provided for reversing the changes. The script didn't seem to work and I received the below ObjectNotFound message:

Set-ItemProperty : Cannot find path 'HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' because
it does not exist.
At line:4 char:1
+ Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (HKCU:\SOFTWARE\...licies\Explorer:String) [Set-ItemProperty], Ite
mNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetItemPropertyCommand ./taskkill : The term './taskkill' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.
At line:6 char:1
+ ./taskkill /f /im explorer.exe;
+ ~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (./taskkill:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
./CMD : The term './CMD' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:7 char:1
+ ./CMD /Q /C START /REALTIME explorer.exe;
+ ~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (./CMD:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

It appears, the script is not able to locate the path HKCU\..\.. on my laptop.

I'm looking for a way to restore the labels for my taskbar icons now.  Would appreciate any guidance you can offer on this.

hershyyz