Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop

Post by justusthane » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 12:20 PM UTC

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The most frustrating thing for me is that it's so inonsistent with its UI. There are literally three different sound device control panels now, each with their own style and subset of functionality. I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't for the fact that Windows 10 always refers me to the less functional (but prettier) sound control panel when I search for "sound". If I want to actually get to the settings I want,…

Try to open network adapter settings .. still so many mouse clicks.

Post by bigbizisverywyz » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 12:34 PM UTC

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aneutron wrote: post #41

This was genuinely one of the more intuitive parts of the task bar. Although I'm aware that you can pin applications to the task bar by right clicking. I surely hope they give alternative ways to pin stuff. But in the article, here's what's pissing me off: > In Windows 11, the taskbar lost some other quite popular features users enjoyed in Windows 10. For example, you can no longer move the taskbar to the top, right,…

I had no idea this was a thing, and I've been using Windows since before Windows 3.0.

Post by sys_64738 » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 12:53 PM UTC

aneutron wrote: post #41

This was genuinely one of the more intuitive parts of the task bar. Although I'm aware that you can pin applications to the task bar by right clicking. I surely hope they give alternative ways to pin stuff. But in the article, here's what's pissing me off: > In Windows 11, the taskbar lost some other quite popular features users enjoyed in Windows 10. For example, you can no longer move the taskbar to the top, right,…

Post by smokelegend » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:07 PM UTC

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> Now I'm not a user of this feature. But in my immediate circle, no less than 6 of the many people I know work with windows (maybe 30 folks ?) use the task bar on the left or right (they have different monitor setups) That's very strange. I have been a Windows developer since the 90s so I've seen a lot of setups, between other developers and all the users I have had to interact with. So this number is in the thousan…

I’ve used the task bar this way. (Along the left vertically) it matches how I use macOS which has the dock along the left.

Post by mkl » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:13 PM UTC

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It sounds like you're unhappy with the taskbar's defaults but didn't look into changing it? You can make the buttons small and show the titles (in "Taskbar settings") and make the taskbar bigger so it has multiple rows (uncheck "Lock the taskbar" and drag the edge further out).

The person you're responding to has changed the defaults. For what it's worth, Windows 11 supports none of these things, which is incredibly frustrating. I have the icons set small, which is good because the taskbar is smaller - but you cannot have two rows, nor can you have titlebar text available on the buttons "long-form style" as was an option in Windows 10. Additionally, there is no way to ungroup items like Win…