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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 voisin »

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 wonder why they removed the feature. Microsoft isn’t exactly known for cutting features to achieve a minimalist interface.

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

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Post by JohnTHaller »

For clarification, you can still reorder the icons you have pinned to the taskbar by dragging in Windows 11. And you can pin additional items from the Start Menu to the taskbar by right-clicking the app in the Start Menu, selecting More, and then Pin to taskbar. You can add items to the Start Menu by creating a shortcut within the "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu" directory. Items added to the start menu like this can then be pinned to the taskbar using the method already mentioned.

Source: I just did all of this in the current Windows 11 Insider release as part of testing an upcoming PortableApps.com Platform release.

So, you can still pin just about anything to the taskbar, it's just a more convoluted way of doing it than dragging. And, I'd wager, we'll have third party utilities that will automate the above for folks who like to pin random items regularly. Heck, I may do it myself and stick it on github if people would like.

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

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

jaywalk wrote: post #52
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.

No version of Windows released in the 90s supported anything like this, and I'd love for you to give actual examples of any features that have been lost. That being said, removing this feature is a terrible decision and I'm not happy to hear about it.

You could move the task bar to the sides or top of the screen in Windows 95. Don't just take my word for it: https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox

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

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Post by yellow_postit »

vxNsr wrote: post #58
Thaxll wrote: post #46

It reminds me during the last win10 update they added that stupid weather widget on the task bar.

Best part is, that “feature” doesn’t exist in windows 11, they rolled that out knowing it would be gone in 6 months. Someone in marketing needed their win.

It also only works if the taskbar is on the bottom of the screen. I wanted to try it out and it took a long time to realize it wasn’t showing up because I use Windows with a taskbar on the top of screen.

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

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Post by yodon »

Goronmon wrote: post #61
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,…

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"

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

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Post by ASalazarMX »

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)

Even just different monitors. While supposedly both are 16:9, my main monitor and my laptop have very different proportions. The laptop feels cramped vertically, so I move the taskbar to the left edge to have more space. Guess I'll autohide it when I upgrade.

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

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Post by tablespoon »

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.

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

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Post by tablespoon »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #7
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.

If you like choice I can really recommend KDE. It's got much more configurability than Windows or Mac. You'll be no longer stuck with what a mega corporation decides is best for you. I run it on top of FreeBSD myself. Gnome is nice too but suffers from the same lack of configurability. It's too opinionated like Mac. You can make it more flexible but you'll end up having a lot of plugins that end up being hard to main…

> Gnome is nice too but suffers from the same lack of configurability. It's too opinionated like Mac. You can make it more flexible but you'll end up having a lot of plugins that end up being hard to maintain across version updates. Every time I'm looking for a function in Gnome and Google it I find an old thread discussing how it used to have it but the Devs removed it because they didn't agree with it or deem it necessary.

I'm getting tried of "opinionated" technologies. Everyone has opinions, but it's a dick move to force yours on others like that's a good thing.

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

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Post by SECProto »

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 have a left side taskbar on my work laptop. I hate it, but it's better than a bottom taskbar when im constrained to crappy 16:9 with 720 vertical pixels.

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

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Post by kgwxd »

DashAnimal wrote: post #38
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 year or so I reevaluate whether Linux can run without dual boot on my desktop and the cycle is the same - something that was previously a blocker is no longer a blocker, but along the way I discover some other issue. It used to be gaming, GPU video decoding on Firefox, etc. Now it is the fact that most music production software uses iLok - in particular I've been using Neural DSP VSTs to play and record guitar.…

I was using Linux for about 5 years, with my MPK Mini II through LMMS without any hassle (my needs are basic). I moved back to Windows a week ago and decided to go all-in on using the software they offered with the instrument. The amount of registering, license agreeing, and license managing (including iLok) I had to go through was absolutely sickening. I knew it was going to bad, I've heard plenty of complaints, but I didn't think it would be nearly that crazy. I really wish the digital audio industry would change on the front, it's worse than any other type of software I've used personally. Until then, I'm just going to stick with analog instruments.
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