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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 tester34 »

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 been doing it when I wanted open one program many times and prevent it from stacking so I can switch between instances faster.

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

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Post by ivanche »

medlazik wrote: post #15

Interesting post about Win11 taskbar by the guy who's made me forget that Windows taskbar has been hot garbage since 7: https://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker-and-a-first-look-at...

Thanks for posting this! 7+ Taskbar Tweaker is such a fine and useful piece of software that it's on top of my list of things to install on a fresh Windows (alongside Total Commander, FastStone Image Viewer, Keypirinha, f.lux, Everything...)

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

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Post by mikro2nd »

sichtlinkair wrote: post #111
jrib wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I move it to the top since most window interaction is at the top: menus, minimize, close. That way my nose travels less. The inability to move the taskbar to the top is disappointing.

> That way my nose travels less Your mouse, you mean? Otherwise you have some explaining to do :)

Predictive text/autocorrect still sucks.

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

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Post by IanSanders »

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,…

Only place I had to move taskbar to the top was their surface pro, because the edge of the screen lines up with the keyboard, making it difficult to tap on taskbar items or start button in the "laptop mode". What a joke

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

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Post by tikkabhuna »

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 use a left-side taskbar at work. Its excellent when you're running lots of Chrome windows or similar where the title bar text is useful. In the default bottom position, applications are quickly compressed so you cannot see the title, but as text runs left-right, the task bar can display far more items whilst preserving the title. It takes a bit of getting used to, but I thoroughly recommend it.

On my personal machine I rarely have duplicate windows, so I can rely on the icons.

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

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Post by mkl »

yodon wrote: post #75
Goronmon wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was genuinely one of the more intuitive parts of the task bar. Is it intuitive? I honestly didn't know this was something you could do, and it doesn't seem to work for me. The most I am able to do while dragging something to the taskbar is to pin it to the application that could open it. Other times I just get the same red 'X' as on Windows 11. Is there a use pattern that I'm just not thinking of?

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

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

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Post by pjmlp »

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…

Same group here, I have seen it a couple of times on the side, mostly left, but pretty much very isolated cases.

If I count it since 1992, and divide by the number of Windows devs I have met in life, it is pratically zero anyway.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

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.

Every time Microsoft or Apple introduce something that a vocal group doesn't like, it is going to be the year of Desktop GNU/Linux, and then it is not.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #16
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.

Mac wont be a choice for much longer, the writing on the wall is obvious that MacOS is on it's way to being deprecated. Within 10 years the desktop Mac experience will be closer to iPadOS than MacOS of today.

Great, it means more System 9 and less UNIX.

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

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Post by johnday »

mkl wrote: post #124
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).

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 Win10 had, so you have only one button per application rather than per window, as I would prefer.

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