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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What the heck MS? Taskbar Overflow
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ManagerNovember 20, 2022 at 5:46 pm #2499795In 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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AskWoody PlusNovember 21, 2022 at 1:04 am #2499872The 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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AskWoody_MVPNovember 21, 2022 at 4:03 am #2499883“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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AskWoody_MVPNovember 21, 2022 at 6:47 am #2499929Am I missing something here?
I click on the taskbar left blue box:
and I get this display with a search:
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AskWoody_MVPNovember 21, 2022 at 6:51 am #2499933You’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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