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Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
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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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