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How to enable 'Never Combine taskbar buttons'. Windows 11 ?
It's 2024 and now the Group taskbar icons = Never is enabled but if you exceed the width of your taskbar, instead of having the down arrow to access the next row, Windows 11 hides EVERYTHING including the app icons that you've pinned to your taskbar until you click on the three dots that are left.
In effect, this is a way to force people to group their icons so they can more easily access their pinned icons.
If I set System>Display (click Scaling) then change Custom Scaling to 100% then I can see the dots that are my Taskbar icons, but find all the text labels unreadable, so I gave up (yes, I did play with other scaling percentages) and told Windows 11 to group my icons so I can more easily click on my calculators and my Windows Desktop Explorer icons.
I gave up, but if anyone has found a solution (other than rolling back to Windows 10, since Microsoft is ending support, even if you pay them $400) please let me know by posting it here.
Microsoft_SFDD I have never had my taskbar that full, but I did try it and see what you mean. Not sure how MS could help you as once the taskbar is that full how can you see what anything is anyway except to hover on the icon.
It never happens to me because I have only 8 programs open and within those I use tabs within them. Tabs in windows explorer and Notepad being one of the really good things in Win 11 and WPS Office as do all browsers.
The only other option I see is to select combine taskbar icons when Taskbar is full.
To get what you want I would ask you to explain exactly what you want to happen when you have all these icons on the taskbar to give you what you want. The only change I could see is being able to increase the height of the taskbar as we used to be able to do and have more rows of icons.