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

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

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Post by yodon »

mkl wrote: post #136
yodon wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps right mouse click on the task bar and check to see if you have a checkmark next to "lock the taskbar"

Even with that check mark, I got the same behaviour as Goronmon. I've now installed 7+ Taskbar Tweaker as mentioned in a comment [1] by wayneftw and that lets you change "Pin to" to "Open with". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27924367

You'd probably want to remove that check mark if you want to move your taskbar (the checkmark indicates you want to lock it in place so it can't be moved).

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

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Post by robbedpeter »

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'm not playing the "Microsoft ux team knows best! " game anymore. This will effectively end Windows as a viable desktop for me. I have 3+ decades of muscle memory and a layout I like. It's more than inconvenient, it means months of my computer not behaving in the way I expect, in ways that I have specifically set up according to my preferences and needs. There's a lower threshold of pain in moving to Linux, and no rent seeking garbage ux teams to get in my way.

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

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Post by robbedpeter »

smokelegend wrote: post #147
S_A_P wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Can I ask why? Just why MS, who asked for this? Was this really a feature people were complaining about? Really????? Why remove this feature? What logic is this? Trying to imitate apple os?

This - my theory is that there's a cadre of middle managers at Microsoft who are jealous of Apple, and express this as a persistent and pernicious trend toward imitating Apple "features." Not sure I've ever seen a single good thing come from the "user experience" crowd - sorry, you don't know better, gtfo my desktop.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

WorldMaker wrote: post #164
smokelegend wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I ask why? Just why MS, who asked for this? Was this really a feature people were complaining about? Really????? Why remove this feature? What logic is this? Trying to imitate apple os?

Best guess: someone or some group wanted to rewrite the Taskbar "from scratch" because of "all the tech debt crud making it a tough codebase to work in" and well a lot of that "tech debt" was all the stuff that made it customizable and supported drag-and-drop and all sorts of other things that users use every day but makes for a complicated codebase.

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

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Post by bambax »

tablespoon wrote: post #77
silicon2401 wrote: post #2

> If this controversial change frustrates you, as well as thousands of other insiders, make sure to send your feedback to Microsoft. Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. I'm only using win10 as it is because they don't care if you use an unauthorized copy for free. At this point my camel's back is a needle away from switching to linux/mac.

> Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. With their support schedule, you'll probably have to sooner than you think, if you need to keep using Windows.

I'm still on Windows 7 and nothing bad has happened.

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

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Post by Jowsey »

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,…

For what it's worth, there's a very easy registry edit that can be done to restore this functionality, but it's annoying it's not built-in anymore.
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