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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 Slippery_John »

hbn wrote: post #9

> 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, or left. I have a feeling this is gonna be the big issue for some people. I personally just leave it at the bottom, but there's something to be said that when you have a standard 16:9 monitor, it doesn't make sense to remove that space from the vertical ax…

I've had the taskbar at the top of the screen for well over ten years. When I want to know the time I look in the top right corner, same as on my mac. Tray icons are also in that same corner, just like on mac. Sure mac dock can't be put up there, but I just use spotlight (as I use the start menu search on windows).

I'm planning on staying on windows 10 until they pry it from my cold, dead hands. I already had reservations before, but breaking my muscle memory like that is the last straw. Though I suppose I'll have to eventually update when software starts only working on it.

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

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Post by ebiester »

EMM_386 wrote: post #115
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,…

> 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 use it on the left because I have an ultra-wide monitor and run out of vertical space before horizontal space.

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

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Post by eertami »

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.

>Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025

I'm optimistic that by 2025 either Microsoft or a third party have developed a way to put the taskbar back at the top. It's apparently possible to use the W10 taskbar in W11 with a registry hack, in the current builds.

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

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Post by mkl »

jobigoud wrote: post #103

I'm still using a Windows XP style task bar which is about the same height in total but two rows. The bottom rows has the currently open applications with the begining of the window title directly visible, the top row has a list of small icons for shortcuts to often used programs (maybe thirty or so). I find this incredibly more productive than the redesigned taskbar with its huge square buttons and mixing of shortcu…

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).

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

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Post by mkl »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #11

Drag and drop was already abysmal on Windows compared to MacOS, things I take for granted on MacOS like dragging an image from a web browser to a photoshop document just don't work. This is just another kick in the teeth for people who find this a fast and flexible way to work.

I don't have Photoshop, but that works fine in Krita on Windows and Linux. Maybe Adobe didn't bother implementing it?

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

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Post by ases »

EMM_386 wrote: post #115
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,…

> 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 had my taskbar in Windows at the top of the screen since 2005. Admittedly, there was no particular reason to move it there, but having done so I'm now used to it. Having to re-learn how to use my computer because the taskbar is at the bottom now sounds extremely offputting to me.

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

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Post by nicbou »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #11

Drag and drop was already abysmal on Windows compared to MacOS, things I take for granted on MacOS like dragging an image from a web browser to a photoshop document just don't work. This is just another kick in the teeth for people who find this a fast and flexible way to work.

My favourite feature is dragging the icon in the title bar to move the file it represents around.

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

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Post by HeckFeck »

bpiche wrote: post #100
fsflover wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://reactos.org

Thank you, this is a very interesting distro.. Wondering how open source it can really be if it's running Windows drivers under the hood?

ReactOS isn't a Linux distro, but a brave attempt to reimplement the full Windows ABI. When complete it will support both binaries and drivers designed for Windows.

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

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Post by HeckFeck »

bob1029 wrote: post #60
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #14

Welcome to the glorious future everyone, where our computers are less featureful than they were in the 1990s. Could all of you "professional" software "engineers" out there please just stop sucking so damned hard? You're making me deeply ashamed to be a part of this industry.

If you want to feel really sad, go install a bootleg copy of 2000/XP on a vm and do some basic computering. Just opening the start menu may drive some of you to tears when you realize what we have lost.

Fear not, for the past is being rescued for the future in SerenityOS! (http://serenityos.org/)

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

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Post by mkl »

feikname wrote: post #86
marcellus23 wrote: post #3

> you can open a file by dragging it onto an app on the taskbar I honestly thought this wasn't true because it never worked when I tried it. Is the third party support for this feature just really lacking compared to macOS where it seems universal?

IIRC you gotta hold the file over the program's taskbar icon for bit then it changes to that window as active and there you can drop. Try with e.g. Your browser on Google drive for uplaoding

That's a separate thing that seems more widely supported. The article seems to be talking about dropping on the program's taskbar button itself: "In Windows 10, you can open a file by dragging it onto an app on the taskbar."

As far as I can tell, no programs support that. Every one I've tried pins the document instead, so I'm wondering if they're mistaken. It does work on KDE.

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