The 'Never' 'Combine taskbar buttons' setting disappeared in #Windows11

1. The taskbar icons are grouped. I find it very annoying and unproductive when have many maximized windows! The Never Combine taskbar buttons setting disappeared in Windows 11.
   

2. Also, before Windows 11, when I dragged an icon from Explorer and hold a few seconds over a taskbar icon, the app was restored, brought to focus so I can drop the file on the app area. On Windows 11 this is not happening.

I tried to change the Registry Setting:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"TaskbarGlomLevel"=dword:00000002

But it is not working.

I also tried this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell\Update\Packages]
"UndockingDisabled"=dword:00000001

This makes the Task Bar work as expected, but the Start Menu does not open.

How to change this?

See:
Windows Feedback Hub
Tech Community

1

2 Answers

ExplorerPatcher should also be able to fix this:

From the readme:

Feature summary

• Choose between Windows 11 or Windows 10 taskbar (with labels support, small icons and lots of customization).
• Disable Windows 11 context menu and command bar in File Explorer and more.
• Open Start to All apps by default, choose number of frequent apps to show, display on active monitor and more.
• Choose between the Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows NT Alt-Tab window switcher with customization.
• Lots of quality of life improvements for the shell, like:
  • Skin tray menus to match Windows style, make them behave like flyouts and center them relative to the icon.
  • Choose action when left and/or right clicking the network icon.
  • Revert to the Windows 7 search box in File Explorer, or disable Windows Search altogether.
  • Disable immersive menus and use mitigations that help you run the real classic theme without glitches.
  • Learn more about all the functionality offered by this program starting with this article in the wiki, here.

I searched for changing windows 11 features to what I had in windows 10 but I couldn't find a neat solution that doesn't crash my PC.

For (almost) full control over Taskbar, Start Menu, and Windows Explorer, The best solution I found was installing StartAllBack. It fixes both drag and combining problems (and many more).

It's just amazing, check out the free trial for yourself. Also, the price of the lifetime licence was kinda good.

My desktop

Taskbar settings

2

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password Submit

Post as a guest

Post Your Answer Discard

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy