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I followed a good portion of the instructions here:
And while I'm happy to say that it is possible to disable taskbar grouping and enable taskbar labels on Win11, the procedure and outcome involves a lot of "do this, then that breaks, do this to fix that and then hide these non-functional bits, this will help fix another problem...". It would work well enough for me and anyone who's willing to workaround shortcomings introduced by the tweaks, but I honestly wouldn't recommend it for people who need their computer to 'just work'. I wish I didn't have to install the Classic Shell to some kind of Start menu back (also gone is the Win+X menu as a result of the tweaks, sadly), because while I like Classic Shell, I wish it were possible to keep the Win+X menu.
I also have my doubts about whether those tweaks will carry over past a feature update. I think if it was a case of a couple of registry edits without any breakages then I'd be less pessimistic.
One other odd thing I discovered about Win11 today is that the unlock taskbar feature has been dumped.
How to Restore Classic Start Menu in Windows 11 with Classic Taskbar
You can restore the classic Start menu in Windows 11, which will be similar to the good old Windows 10's Start with the app list. Windows 11 introduced an
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And while I'm happy to say that it is possible to disable taskbar grouping and enable taskbar labels on Win11, the procedure and outcome involves a lot of "do this, then that breaks, do this to fix that and then hide these non-functional bits, this will help fix another problem...". It would work well enough for me and anyone who's willing to workaround shortcomings introduced by the tweaks, but I honestly wouldn't recommend it for people who need their computer to 'just work'. I wish I didn't have to install the Classic Shell to some kind of Start menu back (also gone is the Win+X menu as a result of the tweaks, sadly), because while I like Classic Shell, I wish it were possible to keep the Win+X menu.
I also have my doubts about whether those tweaks will carry over past a feature update. I think if it was a case of a couple of registry edits without any breakages then I'd be less pessimistic.
One other odd thing I discovered about Win11 today is that the unlock taskbar feature has been dumped.
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