What the heck MS? Taskbar Overflow

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Really hate that the taskbar overflow requires you to pick every program in 11. All of a sudden today it reverted to nothing showing up and I had to re-enable everything again. Not sure why, as I didn’t do any updates or anything. Arrrgh I’m about ready to dump this and go Linux or God forbid, a MAC

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In the past, in Win10, Microsoft has demonstrated that it can (and will) change things in the Taskbar, in the background, without going through Windows Update, without notice.

This is not surprising. It’s Microsoft, after all !!

Get a Mac, you’ll never go back!

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Dan Montague, Alex5723, cyberSAR

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You’re probably right PK. Unfortunately, I need to run what my clients run so I know what’s up. Really weird because I have Windows stripped down pretty good. Wonder if I missed something, but no clue as to what!

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The worse yet to come

Microsoft is turning Windows 11’s Start Menu into an advertisement delivery system

The big search field on Windows 11’s taskbar is unnecessary

Move to a Mac with Windows in VM..

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Charlie

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“This can be controlled by right-clicking on a website and choosing to remove that website individually or to stop showing all recommended websites entirely.” … “Users can hide all recommended items, …”

“big search field” = small search button
“Why then keep the Search field enabled? …
It is easy enough to remove search.”

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Everything can be tweaked but how many home users out of the 150M know how to do this ?

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Charlie

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Most will appreciate the helpful hints, which are not advertisements.

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Am I missing something here?

I click on the taskbar left blue box:

and I get this display with a search:

On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
offline▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.572 x64 i3-3220 RAM8GB HDD Firefox83.0b3 WindowsDefender
offline▸ Acer TravelMate P215-52 RAM8GB Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1265 x64 i5-10210U SSD Firefox106.0 MicrosoftDefender
online▸ Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1992 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox116.0b3 MicrosoftDefender

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You’ve already switched off the Search button under Taskbar Settings.

That’s why ghacks said, “In other words: it does not matter if a user searches from Start or the Search field, the resulting page is identical. Why then keep the Search field enabled? … It is easy enough to remove search.”

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