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Ungroup items on the Taskbar in Windows 11
I need help on how to ungroup items on the Taskbar in Windows 11
NetboxGlobal Sadly, you can't. This is the new hellscape delivered unto us.
It seems that it was decided that leaving icons grouped looked more pretty, despite it slaughtering productivity, and there is absolutly no way to ungroup taskbar icons in Windows 11 at this stage.
- I registered for this community forum so i can comment on how much i am disappointed with microsoft for getting rid of WINDOWS in the taskbar and instead grouped everything up to an icon. STOP BEING APPLE'S COPYCAT.
Couldn't agree more! Can't think of a benefit Windows 11 provides that comes close to losing the ungroup feature. Let me know how best to raise this issue so as to increase the chances it's addressed.
- MS needs to stop trying to make desktop windows into a bundle of desktop+tablet
I HATE this stupid taskbar and having to click on a button to access a menu...(start menu>apps) (right click+show more options)
nobody wants this crap in a desktop system people want to click and go not click click click and more click to do 1 thing
want to make a friendlier OS for tablets? then make a different one for tablets...
desktops are not touch screen (never seen a single person using a desktop with one)
isn't the whole point of a "start menu" to show me my applications so I can open them?
then why do I have to click on another button to see them?
and whoever came up with the idea of grouped buttons is the biggest idiot in microsoft and should be FIRED
it's about time microsoft listen to their users...so instead of messing with the UI which is pretty much a standard anywhere...
linux..osx..windows...
desktop with my files icon / taskbar with BUTTONS (not some grouped pile of utter).
wanna create something people would actually use? get rid of microsoft widgets and add support for 3rd party ones.
how about a cloud backup system with incremental snapshots so a person can restore their system from a certain day?
companies would pay fortunes just for this feature
be able to install windows and install off a cloud backup from the previous week where they got randomwared
as a windows user I demand the name of the dev that created grouped taskbar/system icons so we can create an online petition to have him fired.
Any moron that has such ideas and keeps bringing them again and again into windows countless times after people **bleep** about them on forums..on youtube etc...should and deserves to be fired to prevent such influences into the future of the windows OS.TiredOfYou https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
Hello Everyone, you may use the above application from the Github to get back the taskbar the way you want it.
Have a great day!
Shawn- yeah and we'll have to keep using 3rd parties to have our menu look normal etc...
these ideas are dumb..the whole point of opening an app or function is to use it....
so when I open my start menu I want to see my programs...
when I click on a taskbar button I want to see my program pop up...
not click on another button to access the things I clicked for in the first place.
my computer isn't a tablet and these morons keep trying to make windows act like one instead of adding functionality to the OS...
people spend time on their computer doing 3 things...
browsing...gaming and creating (either app development or artist/job stuff)
nobody cares for this crap that wastes people's time...
make a better browser (PS: everyone uses gmail these days...so make it work proper..not live accounts)
add support to running programs sandboxed
add support for vulkan natively and an interface from directx to vulkan and vulkan to directx
so people can pick which one they want
hell...put things to an online vote instead of listening to devs that think they know what people want
Going back w10TiredOfYou
NetboxGlobal This guy should be given the Nobel Prize (restores Windows 10 taskbar and Quick Launch):
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher- .dll replacement or "Winaero Tweaker" + "Class Start" if u want the "ungroup taskbar items" is inacceptable.
Microsoft only understand one language.
Do not upgrade!
I have TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot active for Win 11 Test, but I'm back to 10 now.
I get the Windows 11 Update reminder today. But i don't do it because of this simple missing feature that disrupt my productivity.
Im going to disable TPM and Secure boot when this reminder comes every day.
Im using a 32" UWQHD 21:9 Display and have very lager space for open apps.
At the moment there is no Point update to Win11 before 2025.Hello, I found this online. It will bring back the labels in the taskmanager. https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
That was fast, I can be happy again.
I noticed something though, since I installed ExplorerPatcher 2 hours ago, Windows manager is taking almost 6Gb of my ram, and search indexer 20% of my CPU. I can guess why this would happen, I'm not worried, just noting it. And I still rather have 6gb of my ram taken away, and 20% of my CPU, than have my icons grouped. Why why why, I just wanna khow why they're grouping m.
I can't believe I spent almost a year one click away from happiness.
Thank you
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher- Yeah Baby!! So far so good. Thank you to everyone that posted this patch.
RobertStewart I never donate to github projects... not a personal philosophy, just never found one that wasn't commercially sponsored and was worth donating to... until now. Worth every cent. Thanks for providing the link. Hopefully Microsoft fix W11 so it's not required, but if not... Valentin is plan B.
- Please Microsoft, bring back the ungroup taskbar items functionality.
Thanks - Windows 11 is of course still in development, so suggest you log this feedback in the feedback hub as a "suggestion"
This is by far the WORST DECISION Microsoft could have made.
Yes I agree with you ,in this discussion there is a link directly to the opinion center please support!
Windows is always 'in development', i.e. they keep making updates. But it's not a beta version or something. It'll stay that way until they release Win12 which will no doubt have all the same issues as Win11 and older versions, along with some new ones.
- Someone in Microsoft has followed the philosophy "When You Do Things Right, People Won’t Be Sure You’ve Done Anything at All". Which is terible for everyone.
They remove the feature. Then later add it back to be looked like heroes who listen to the customers.- Odinstaluj to gówno jakim jest Windows 11 i wróć do Windows 10.
Grouping items on the taskbar reduces my productivity. Users should have the option to group or ungroup identical to Windows 10.
- Please MSFT, reverse this decision!!! Forcing grouping upon us is TERRIBLE! Stop trying to copy Apple, we appreciate MSFT providing choices and options that don't copy Apple. If we liked what Apple did, we'd buy their products.
Absolutely regret the decision to click upgrade to Windows 11 based on the lack of this feature. It's going to absolutely kill my productivity and I suspect I'll revert back to Windows 10 before the week is up
