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Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 121 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Windows 11 has one specific limiting feature that drives me bonkers and it's not being able to click the clock in the bottom right on a secondary monitor to pull up a calendar. Windows 10 has this, why remove it?

It's a miniscule but good feature

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It seems like they are going out of their way to remove good features. Like they removed the option to right click the taskbar and open task manager. They since added it back, but only because of user demand.

    They have removed quick access to disabling the network, seeing and changing ip settings.

    I can't remember all the annoying issues, but there's a lot.

    I hate that it has become a general thing to ruin user experience and possibilities of customization. Google is doing the same with android.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    My biggest issue is that you can't open new file explorer tabs in the same window. So before you know it, you have 10 different file browser windows open. It wasn't a Windows 10 feature either but there was an extension called Qtabbar that allowed it. That doesn't work on Windows 11. So I've been using free commander as a work around. It's annoying though.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Seems like a lot of stuff like that though. At this point I only use windows to play games and I want to interact with the OS as little as possible, so I don’t understand why I would want an updated UI with more ads and Microsoft integrations when it does nothing to improve what I actually use it for.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    At launch you couldn't even have that clock on the second screen, they added it back partially in an update, non-clickable.

    And win11 is filled with this sort of thing. It's the worst update windows ever got, except maybe for winMe - which I don't recall that well.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    From a technical perspective, they didn’t remove it or any of the other missing features from the taskbar since the win11 taskbar was built from scratch without any of the old code for 10. For whatever reason, that feature wasn’t prioritized in the new taskbar build so it wasn’t built yet, or they didn’t want to add it.

    I still think their decision to not allow the new taskbar to be placed on the sides or top is really stupid though, as someone with a 32:9 monitor, I’d much rather use some of my horizontal space for taskbar rather than limited vertical space.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My minor but really irritating gripe is the unmovable taskbar (which I'm not sure if this has changed or not), I've been a top taskbar person since xp and it doesn't make sense to me to remove a feature like that. Apparently there are Reg hacks or third party tools to do what I want but I really shouldn't have to resort to that Imo.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I have tried a reg hack, which worked pretty well, but it kept resetting after every update. And changing the registries I did (don't recall which I changed or if they still work.) also came with some annoying issues, like window preview still show on top of taskbar (so outside of your screen) among other thing.

    I also preferred to have a smaller taskbar which is also no longer possible.

    So I have given up and resorted to a bottom taskbar on autohide. But even that has some wonky interactions, with for example windows + tab, where there is a nice shade behind your different virtual desktops, but it stops at the original location of the taskbar.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    The taskbar nailed immovable to the bottom is some impressively dumb bullshit. That limitation is so unnecessary and useless I can only chalk it up to brutal idiocy on the product managers side.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I didn't even realize this. What in the backwards UI design is that?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm still waiting for the uncombined icons on taskbar

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