Microsoft testing Windows 11 Start menu changes and other new features

[Jan]

Windows 11 Start menu changes

Microsoft has rolled out customisation options for the Start menu in a Windows 11 insiders update, according to a report from Softpedia News.

The company has returned to the approach initially introduced in Windows 10X, replacing the current Start menu layout with a static design.

 

[cyb3rt]

“When a secondary monitor is connected, your clock and date will now also be displayed on the taskbars of the secondary monitor or monitors for glanceability,”

Ah at last! This was my biggest gripe thus far as a gamer (primary monitor running games).

 

[daveza]

All I want is Never Combine Taskbar Buttons.

The option of a vertical taskbar would be a bonus.

 

[ReleasedFromCaptivity]

I want to be able to reduce my task bar size to small as it was done in windows 10, I know you can do this via the registry, but why not just bring back the setting.

 

[Penner]

Not being able to deselect the "Combine Taskbar" feature is infuriating. So much more time wasted looking for open windows. Microsoft: but it looks nicer...

 

[i.got~issues]

Windows 11 = Vista II (2) (meh)

 

[RaptorSA]

All I want is Never Combine Taskbar Buttons.

The option of a vertical taskbar would be a bonus.

Refuse to switch if I can't do vertical, quick-launch & not combining.
There is no better layout.

 

[Heisenborg]

Startallback

 

[dualmeister]

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[daveza]

Windows 11 a Flop, Survey Claims Less Than 1% Upgraded, Microsoft Improves Start Menu

Microsoft Windows 11, now nearing its third month since release, is for all intents and purposes, a flop. Market research by Lansweeper, which surveyed over 10 million PCs across the commercial and personal market segments, reports that less than 0.21% of the users it surveyed, had upgraded from...

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I don't have a problem with it, besides the locked taskbar, grouped taskbar icons, and the right-click in Explorer that makes me click again to find New Folder.

 

[dualmeister]

I don't have a problem with it, besides the locked taskbar, grouped taskbar icons, and the right-click in Explorer that makes me click again to find New Folder.

I don't have a problem either.
But, the missus is cursing me for doing the update

 

[daveza]

I don't have a problem either.
But, the missus is cursing me for doing the update

Tell her to get her own computer.

 

[semaphore]

I miss the show desktop context menu item, unless I just haven’t found it yet.

 

[LaraC]

I miss the show desktop context menu item, unless I just haven’t found it yet.

Click the right corner of the taskbar.