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Any way to restore old windows 10 taskbar in windows 11

Anonymous
2025-01-09T10:51:26+00:00

Hi there :
My employer has recently (end of november 2024) deployed Win11 23H2 in my computer.
From my point of view it's just a new piece of **** but as it is a corporate matter I understand and am obligated to follow up.
Of course, I can understand the need for updating OS from the perspective of accessing a more modern and robust OS built to stand up against today's exigences.
I'm OK with that but what I'm not OK with is the changes that came with the new version, particularly the very very very annoying change in the taskbar.

Before now I could have as many windows open as I wanted.
Nowadays is still the case but before I could see them ALL AT ONCE, not anymore actually.
So, my question is : as I've found a patch to successfully get the old context menu back, is there a similar patch to get the old taskbar behavior back?
I've read in the Ramen Software site (author of the excellent 7+ Taskbar Tweaker that, unfortunately does not work under W11)) the code for the old taskbar is still there as MS has not erased it.
I'm just a user, only capable of turning on and off the computer but after this incredibly idiotic change that MS has implemented I've noticed that my productivity has plummeted, and so quite far down.
I've exposed the case to the computer specialists in my company. but they do not understand my arguments so either the wording of my message is not good, either they do not care a bit about the issue whiwh makes them fall in the category of sheep, maybe well paid but still sheep at the end of the day.
So, thanks in advance for any help with this issue as I assume I’m not the only one in this situation.
Have a nice day, all of you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-12T10:04:09+00:00

    Hi:

    Thank you for answering my post.
    I understand what you're saying, and I fear you're right as that's what the authour of the software I've used for the last 7 or 8 years says (https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker-on-windows-11-with-windows-10s-taskbar)

    Update (September 23, 2024):

    The dormant Windows 10 taskbar code was removed in Windows 11 version 24H2, and the methods below no longer work. Third-party tools which were using it, including ExplorerPatcher and StartAllBack, came up with a custom taskbar implementation. As a result, 7+ Taskbar Tweaker isn’t compatible with Windows 11 version 24H2, with or without third-party tools.

    So, I guess it's gone, however I never loose faith and hope that someone will develop something to adress this highly irritating issue.

    MS has no respect, at all, for its customers.
    None

    Nada...

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  2. Neil D 32,835 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-01-09T14:12:43+00:00

    So far as I'm aware the Windows 11 Taskbar is a new design and cannot be changed with any tweak.

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