Windows 11 Taskbar Never Combine
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A highly requested classic Taskbar feature is coming to Windows 11 soon — here's a first look
Never combine and show app labels are almost ready.
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I never used taskbar with labels on Windows 7 beta, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11, it looked really awful and clutter waste of space. Taskbar combined looked much better with 20 icons, I can identified all icons instantly, it are more productive allowed me to run up to 20 apps at once than both XP and Vista with 4 or 5 apps taskbars that I was very struggled with lacked of space. I really dont need labels, if weirdos need few apps taskbars with labels then they must suffered from advanced form of dementia when they have serious trouble recognised icons so they needed labels to help them to improve productive. I dont needed 5 notepad taskbars with labels, 4 File Explorer taskbars with labels and 3 Firefox taskbars with labels.
Just 3 icons of Notepad, File Explorer and Firefox are perfect enough with tabs support which are fantastic and wonderful that feature XP and Vista should had very long time ago.
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Don
That's nice for you - but clearly lots of people disagree.
Stay classy with the personal insults?
Tabs in certain apps make sense - web browsers, even notepad (I've been using Notepad++ for years), however I can't see huge benefit to having tabbed explorer - often I want to see two folders side by side, so I can compare or even just drag/drop files - again for this sort of workflow adding tabs actually adds additional steps (and when I last checked - it might have changed since, there wasn't an obvious explore in new window)I dont needed 5 notepad taskbars with labels, 4 File Explorer taskbars with labels and 3 Firefox taskbars with labels.
Where fundamental behaviour is being changed then there needs to be an easy toggle - not forcing users to operate differently to how they have for a number of years.
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Man of Honour
I like taskbar labels + never combine. I don't have "dementia", or maybe I do, I can't remember.... Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah, I have two browser windows side by side, both have multiple tabs, because that's how I roll. One window is for content reading, the other window is for media/video streams etc I can watch or pay attention to whilst working on the other Window. In that scenario labelled never combine is really helpful especially when you have multiple instances of apps open working on different things so seeing the label without having to hover to get the preview is a greater convenience.
I imagine Athlon is on a tiny screen, hence why showing labels is tedious, only icons. Doesn't excuse the poor quality commentary though
Example of mine right now:
I imagine Athlon is on a tiny screen, hence why showing labels is tedious, only icons. Doesn't excuse the poor quality commentary though
Example of mine right now:
I've not bothered with labels on my desktops since XP I don't think - but I do tend to use them on systems setup as a server especially if multiple people administrate it as it can make things easier especially if you've got multiple instances of a server application which uses title hints as to status, etc.
Indeed - something I've been wanting for a long time, maybe I should have another go at trying to implement it, is an active list of current open/active folder windows in the left hand navigation pane of Explorer for easy dragging and dropping, etc. tabbed Explorer might be great for some people but is a slower and less efficient way of doing things for me personally.
Indeed - something I've been wanting for a long time, maybe I should have another go at trying to implement it, is an active list of current open/active folder windows in the left hand navigation pane of Explorer for easy dragging and dropping, etc. tabbed Explorer might be great for some people but is a slower and less efficient way of doing things for me personally.
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So here we are years later and still Microsoft still hasnt sorted this yet when it comes to customising the UI esp when these features where present in earlier versions of Windows and its lame people have to resort to 3rd party apps to restore functionality.
To the people saying just install X and stop complaining these are the experiences that I've had with the following:
OpenShell works fine on my Windows 10 machine.
Startallback gets a bunch of free advertising but runs for 30 days then wants a license key... the website has no information to say its a trial but a small button right at the bottom of the page about purchasing/upgrading a license key. On install I dont think it says its a 30 day trial... its like a throwback to the days where the software was 'free' but installed a bunch of unwanted **** along with it.
ExplorerPatcher killed my Start button on my Windows 11 test install which was quite amusing in a way trying to figure out a way to fix it without being able to use the Start button. Playing around with the options when I did get it working killed the start menu again.
I wonder what what will taken away from Windows 12 that was present in earlier versions just for Microsoft take years to add back into a feature update while somewhat bragging like its some accomplishment while Microsoft diehards eat it up.
To the people saying just install X and stop complaining these are the experiences that I've had with the following:
OpenShell works fine on my Windows 10 machine.
Startallback gets a bunch of free advertising but runs for 30 days then wants a license key... the website has no information to say its a trial but a small button right at the bottom of the page about purchasing/upgrading a license key. On install I dont think it says its a 30 day trial... its like a throwback to the days where the software was 'free' but installed a bunch of unwanted **** along with it.
ExplorerPatcher killed my Start button on my Windows 11 test install which was quite amusing in a way trying to figure out a way to fix it without being able to use the Start button. Playing around with the options when I did get it working killed the start menu again.
I wonder what what will taken away from Windows 12 that was present in earlier versions just for Microsoft take years to add back into a feature update while somewhat bragging like its some accomplishment while Microsoft diehards eat it up.
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There have been several instances recently where 3rd party modifications have conflicted with later Windows updates like with ExplorerPatcher - you just can't rely on software like that to make Windows 10 and onwards usable and without issues later down the line :|
For the dev channel:
I'm expecting this functionality to be in Windows 11 23H2 due September or October.
Why?
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Nope, probably too embarrassed to talk about it.
"never combine" is available in the latest Windows 11 update.
You need "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" checked in Windows Update to download a config update which makes the feature appear.
The implementation is a bit buggy, and generally not as good as Windows 10.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
You need "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" checked in Windows Update to download a config update which makes the feature appear.
The implementation is a bit buggy, and generally not as good as Windows 10.
Windows 11's new ‘Never Combine’ icons feature is almost usable
After almost three years, Microsoft has finally added the 'Never combine taskbar button' back to Windows, and it still doesn't work correctly.
They were wanting the interface to look minimalist and neat like MacOS
Quite funny to see in the latest Steam survey that Windows 11 usage has declined and Win 10 increased. The customers have spoken 
As has MacOS which has been on a steady decline overall. But that's expected since Apple killed Mac gaming.
As has MacOS which has been on a steady decline overall. But that's expected since Apple killed Mac gaming.
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