Oct 06 2021 11:02 AM - edited Oct 06 2021 11:25 AM
I was eager to install the official Windows 11 release today, however upon reading first I noticed that ungrouping taskbar icons / showing labels is not available anymore in Windows 11.
Why the heck would you remove such a useful feature? This is the only thing preventing me from installing Windows 11. Will this feature come back?
Might as well stick with Windows 10 until it sees its return (if ever). Solving this with third party tools is a no go.
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Dec 17 2022 04:30 AM
@Niko_V Absolute shame that Microsoft if leaving out / removing functions that are used and relied upon by millions of its users and alienates them like this. What a terrible UX management.
Dec 17 2022 11:45 AM
@ACA777 There's this thing called "The Windows Insider Program", don't people on there try it out, tell them it's stupid, so they don't implement it? Absolutely zero people like any of the changes Microsoft makes.
Jan 24 2023 06:35 AM
@brollin thank you very much, you're a life saver
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Feb 02 2023 01:42 PM - edited Feb 02 2023 01:44 PM
@RobertPatrician Startallback (free but with a minor pestering dialog on startup, and a frowning face on the start menu, or just pay a few dollars) returns the taskbar and start menu to any version of windows you like and puts back in all the customisations. I dislike the modern way. I do things simply. To start a program, I use the most recent apps in the start menu (I set it to 15 of them), anything not on there, I just start typing the name. The taskbar is not for icons, it's for running programs, with labels written in English, why should I remember the icon for every single program I use? Why should I not be able to tell if it's a link or a running program? As for the desktop, just like a real desk, I use that for temporary things only. No icons plastered all over it to start programs, which I can't see if there's a program running full screen!
Feb 03 2023 07:19 AM
@sunnyrio Difficulty is that I"m on a government laptop. We can't just "go install some software" and it's a very hard sell to get something like StartAllBack installed. I'd gladly pay $20 right now to get my taskbar back, but it's just not an option.
Feb 03 2023 03:26 PM - edited Feb 03 2023 03:27 PM
Oh, you have one of those type of admins. I prided myself in doing what the user wanted. You want startallback installed, I'd do it for you. You wanna change your own wallpaper, go ahead. Most are power hungry morons.
Actually, since you're visually impaired, tell them you need it. It would be discriminating if they didn't let you. Threaten to sue them or put an article in a newspaper.
Feb 06 2023 08:30 AM
@sunnyrio I'm a federal employee on a government laptop. I'm working on the process to initiate the request to begin review for the StartAllBack software. The admin team is similarly unhappy with this change, because windows 11 was a solution in search of a problem.
Feb 06 2023 09:53 AM
Feb 06 2023 10:15 AM - edited Feb 06 2023 10:28 AM
"I'm a federal employee on a government laptop"
Funny - we are in a public forum and it resembles advertising from other companies.
Anyone can write what they want -> but is it true?
In one thread, the scammer wrote that he is the CEO ... , to inspire trust, unfortunately you always need to have limited trust -> I ask everyone for it.
If you are visually impaired, do you use high contrast?
Do you have scaling magnification (non-standard), what level?
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