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Is there no fix for this? I hate having the taskbar on my main monitor and ive been looking everywhere for a way to move it to another monitor. =/
Display settings > select monitor, check box "main display"
I guess the AI writing windows 11 code keeps getting the taskbar wrong.
So many people at work are having frustrating issues with Windows now.
It takes so fucking long to start up. Sure, you get a desktop and can open a program, but it just keeps locking up repeatedly for a good 20 minutes while whatever bloatware is running in the background during startup.
They cram OneDrive down your throat and it has constant issues.
They put so much shit in your way, in the name of "productivity" it makes your actual productivity worse.
FUCK COPILOT.
It's the one drive cramming that really gets me, well also changing the right click context menu to hide cut and paste, wtf.
But seriously, not letting you move the Onedrive pin down the hotlinks sidebar out of the way? Extremely annoying.
Kill it in the registry.
I can't move the Windows 11 taskbar because I've been running Linux for over 20 years. Recommended fix!
Yeah, KDE ftw
You also can't add folders as toolbars anymore.
But widgets!!!
/s
the reason is literally "because we decided not to implement it"
Saved you a click.
Join team Linux!
Most windows products get slightly shittier with each new release.
I miss the old days, when the opposite seemed true about every other major release, though the early bars were low so that was straight progress for 1.0 through 95.
The whole explanation about screen size is telling.
The entire point of Windows being named Windows is that apps can run inside these resizable rectangles nicknamed windows.
Yet the rectangular taskbar is apparently impossible to handle...
It's never been done before, and can never be done after, obviously. Not a chance. Nope. It's not like it worked before, not like windows placement is not really the business of the taskbar app, not like it works with almost every other DE/OS, too.
Absolutely impossible. Microsoft, that apparently did not make windows up until now otherwise they'd know this explanation is pure bullshit, have absolutely no way, no resources, no knowledge on how to setup the available rectangular area on the screen for window placement. Nope.
Install Linux Problem Solved.
This phrase should be made a bumper sticker. Or spraypainted anywhere.
Different issues and learning curve, but yes, fuck windows 11. Zorin FTW
Apps then need to constantly reflow their layouts, resize content, adjust snapping behavior, and handle edge cases across different screen sizes, DPI settings, and multi-monitor setups. Also, this reflow logic has to work perfectly for legacy Win32 apps, modern UWP apps, and everything in between.
You mean the apps that were already handling this for decades when windows wasn't a vibe-coded and ad-infested vehicle for AI slop?
Yeah this doesn't make sense. Docked bars have worked fine since Windows 95. You could have the task bar on any side, and apps would handle it. You could have multiple docked bars too, as some third-party apps used to be dockable. For example, Winamp had a view that was a short bar stretching the entire width of the screen, stuck to the top of the screen. The windowing system handled it fine.
Meanwhile KDE:
Put the taskbar wherever you want it's even floating if there isn't a window nearby.
Put one taskbar on every side of the screen
They just don't want you to customise your computer in any way, huh.
Soon you'd be prevented from changing your wallpaper.
They'll only allow those generated using Copilot.
"Copilot, change the wallpaper to a DSC20260512.JPG."
"I'm sorry, you can only change the wallpaper to images generated by Copilot!"
"Ok, change the wallpaper to a picture of my Daughter Graduating."
"Sure! Here's a picture of a young woman graduating set to your wallpaper."
"That isn't my daughter, my daughter isn't a blonde white girl with massive tits, please change back to my previous wallpaper."
"Sure, here's a picture of a Scottish Glen."
"My last wallpaper was a photo I took of The Flying Scotsman, also that picture of a Scottish glen has an offensive stereotype of a Scottish Man fucking a sheep while drinking a bottle labeled 'Buckfast and Heroin'."
"Here is a picture of a Scottish Glen."
Microsoft wants to use the Taskbar for advertising. They can't do that if users can move it around or hide it.
Imagine letting your computer decide how you're gonna use it 😖
*letting a corporation decide how you're gonna use your computer
Windows 11 is a bloated disaster. I urge everyone to switch to Linux or one of the BSDs.
Also switch away from Microsoft Office and use LibreOffice.
building the taskbar from scratch meant that they had to cherry-pick things to put into the feature list first, and the ability to move the taskbar didn’t make the cut, for several reasons that Microsoft values.
Translation: Nobody really knows (or wants to take the blame), we probably just forgot to put on the feature list. Anyway, I'll just use the usual vague weasel-words that don't really mean anything.
New taskbar from ground up. And despite all the requests to bring the feature back, their reasoning amounts to "we're too lazy"
Why would applications have to consider relayouting? Isn't that entirely in the hand of the Windows taskbar?
It shows the window groups, windows, pops over previews of windows or tabs in a consistent style, presumably owned by the taskbar itself. At no point do applications themselves control their positions or size in the taskbar or the taskbar popovers.
