Never Combine Taskbar Icons in Windows 11

In this video, I'm going to show you how to set your Windows 11 Taskbar icons to never combine with the free ExplorerPatcher utility.

Update!

2023-11-22: As of the most recent Windows 11 release, the taskbar ONCE AGAIN supports never combining buttons! Yay! Microsoft actually listened to user feedback. See? You can make a difference.

You can find the setting by right-clicking on the Taskbar, select Taskbar Settings, go to the Taskbar behaviors group, and set both "Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels" options to Never.

Thanks to Rene Borst on YouTube for pointing this out to me today when he saw my File Explorer Regression video.

Links

• Utility: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
• Complain to Microsoft: https://599cd.com/MSTaskbarIcons

My Complaint

• Dear Microsoft, I would like to add my voice to the hundreds of people who hate the fact that Microsoft downgraded the Windows 11 Taskbar and removed functionality that so many of us are used to from previous versions of Windows. The inability to ungroup icons on the task bar is counter-productive and makes it slower and more difficult to multitask.

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