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Title: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: Redaktion on May 16, 2026, 22:01:51
Microsoft is finally giving Windows 11 users more control over the taskbar again, including full screen-edge placement and a smaller, more compact mode. The update also improves how menus and window labels behave depending on the taskbar position.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-brings-back-Windows-10-taskbar-customizations-to-Windows-11.1298685.0.html
Title: Re: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: Bizarro_NikoB on May 17, 2026, 16:49:10
In my most scottish voice --> About time!!
Title: Re: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: Worgarthe on May 17, 2026, 18:16:39
See? This is "progress" and "improvement" these days. Step 1 - remove it. Step 2 - wait a couple of years. Step 3 - reintroduce it back. And they (MS) get offended for being called Microslop, lol.

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Title: Re: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: finally™ on May 18, 2026, 15:05:53
Next fix the Jank AF behavior when switching between virtual desktops.
Title: Re: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: Prassel on May 18, 2026, 16:03:22
Quote from: Worgarthe on May 17, 2026, 18:16:39See? This is "progress" and "improvement" these days. Step 1 - remove it. Step 2 - wait a couple of years. Step 3 - reintroduce it back. And they (MS) get offended for being called Microslop, lol.

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Yeah ... same $hit happened with laptop screens: 16:10 displays were common around 2008 or so, then they replaced all with 16:9 displays, praised as innovative even though they were $hitty, and 10 years later 16:10 displays returned and laptops sellers claimed how innovative it was ...
Title: Re: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: pol on May 18, 2026, 16:39:39
Can we separate the icons in the bottom left? I want them separate like it is in w10...
Title: Re: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: Lowest common denominator on May 18, 2026, 17:23:34
Quote from: Prassel on May 18, 2026, 16:03:22and 10 years later 16:10 displays returned and laptops sellers claimed how innovative it was ...

Apple never switched to 16:9. IIRC, they only one where they did was the 11.6" air.

Even though I disagree with many of their decisions, this was the one thing I did respect them for. Just wish they went further and gone fully back to 4:3.

The rest of the OEM clowns in windows space didn't even bother fighting or resisting. Just switched instantly to follow whatever most profitable at the time.

I honestly think it was Apple and the MacBook that forced other OEMs to switch back. If not for them, we probably still be on 16:9 or something even worse possibly.
Title: Re: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: RobertJasiek on May 18, 2026, 19:28:07
[quote author=Lowest common denominator link=msg=757443
I honestly think it was Apple and the MacBook that forced other OEMs to switch back. If not for them, we probably still be on 16:9 or something even worse possibly.
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People like me who criticised every 16:9 notebook for years may also have contributed to the motivation of OEMs to go back to at most 16:10.
Title: Re: Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11
Post by: GeorgeS on May 18, 2026, 21:21:19
Oddly the ONLY Windows powered device I own that has a decent (MacBook like) aspect ratio is a "Microsoft Surface Book2". LOL!!!

Go figure.
(can't stand the 16:9 aspect ratio laptops)
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