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Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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New taskbar from ground up. And despite all the requests to bring the feature back, their reasoning amounts to "we're too lazy"
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Is this what hearing Vogon Poetry is like?
It really seems like Windows really needs KDE to come back to the platform...
So I'm forced to use windows at work like the majority of my industry.
The start bar is still a thorn in my side since we switched from 10 to 11.
Standard office set up is 2 x 1920x1200 monitors and a 1920x1080 laptop. Some just leave the laptop shut when docked.
I preferred having it on a stand and using the lap top screen real estate.
In windows 10 I could make a monitor the primary and have a start bar only on the laptop. Not being able to do that in windows 11 is fucking annoying. They also fucked up auto hide start bar, it's always jumping up for bullshit I don't care about and not hiding when it should. I gave in and accepted I can't have those bottom few lines of screen real estate because they are Microsoft's.
As an engineer I do sometimes get feelings of imposter syndrome. But then I look at what Microsoft did to the start bar in windows 11 and think well at least I didn't do that.
Is the explanation, “Because Windows 11 is shitty”?
Jokes on them I decided to give macOS a shake when it was time for a new laptop.
People are fleeing into Linux & MacOS in droves. If this trend holds, Ms will lose majority in ~8 years.
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Why can't they just ask copilot to program that for them?
What’s funny here is that in Microsoft’s Feedback Hub, the feedback related to “taskbar”, with the highest number of upvotes, is the one that asks the company to “Bring back the ability to move the taskbar to the top and sides if the screen on Windows 11”. We are not sure which data Microsoft used to get to such a conclusion…
The one they get from their ~~spyware~~ telemetry, probably.
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My screen is wider than it is tall. I have more horizontal screen real estate than vertical, why are you forcing me to waste vertical space? I wanna move it to the left again...
For anyone interested, Google the app called WindHawk. It makes it extremely possible to push the taskbar up.
I’ve been using ExplorerPatcher to correct this and it works pretty well.
I'm using Linux Mint to correct this and it works even better
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I guess the AI writing windows 11 code keeps getting the taskbar wrong.
They just don't want you to customise your computer in any way, huh.
Soon you'd be prevented from changing your wallpaper.
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Simple solution is to switch to Linux. Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04LTS had worked great for me so far.
If you absolutely can't or won't switch look at openshell https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/