how do u move the taskbar to the left side of the screen

Question

How do u move the taskbar to the left side of the screen?

Answer 1

Yep. Seems like Windows 11 doesn't let you move the taskbar (just the icons).

I'm sitting here completely unable to use my email, because the taskbar at the bottom is blocking my ability to click the send/save buttons.

(I can't make the taskbar hide, even though I have "Automatically Hide Taskbar" selected)

Kind of amazing that Windows 98 worked great, and 25 years later, I can't even send an email.

Answer 2

I want to have the taskbar appear vertically on the left side of my screen like I had it in Windows 10.

Answer 3

I am shocked that Microsoft does not consider the huge impact of this UI change. Many of us pros have used taskbars on the sides of screens for years and to call that a "feature" and remove it from Windows 11 is a big miss in my opinion.
Microsoft, please get this back to us quickly so that we can resume multitasking the way we like to and are not forced to jump to macs.

Answer 4

@Microsoft, Any update? Pff, this has been going on for far too long. I really don't want to have anything to do anymore with Windows 11. Having the pretty much USELESS taskbar shoved in my face daily is frustrating. The new Settings that is a wanna-be Control Panel is also such a burden. The moment I can get rid of this laptop and this OS I am jumping off this p-o-cr asap. Literally 0 improvements with this OS compared to the previous OS, instead only burdens. And is slow as fk with the stupid One-Drive everywhere integration. And don't get me started on the no auto-save in local office files :@ Why Microsoft decides they know better how to work efficiently and does no QA or consider customer feedback or at least share why they are such demons? The agenda of trying to push AI by gimping your work-flow is a really **** way to try make it popular. It definitely doesn't work.

Answer 5

Hello Lauren, how are you doing?

Welcome to the Microsoft community!

I'm glad to be able to assist you at this time.

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To move the taskbar to the left side of the screen in Windows 11, you can follow these steps:

1. Right-click on an empty space on the taskbar. A context menu will appear.
2. From the context menu, select "Taskbar settings." The Taskbar settings window will open.
3. In the Taskbar settings window, find the "Taskbar alignment" option.
4. Click on the dropdown menu next to "Taskbar alignment" and select "Left."
5. Once you select "Left," the taskbar will automatically move to the left side of the screen.

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