Microsoft Finally Lets You Move the Windows 11 Taskbar After Nearly Five Years

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It only took about five years, but Microsoft has finally relented. Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel can now move the Windows 11 taskbar to the top, bottom, left, or right of the screen, restoring a feature that Windows users had for decades before Windows 11 launched in October 2021 and locked the taskbar to […]

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OMG this is literally the only thing I god **** wanted from Windows 11.

I'm a taskbar on the top kind of guy, I like having all my functionality at the top of the screen where most programs and windows place their control ribbons anyhow.

It was wild that Win11 removed that functionality for basically no reason.
 
I mostly gave up on OS customization when it would keep getting broken in standard updates, and every major release threw out the old design and changed all the rules anyway.

Now I'm lazy and just throw everything on the desktop and pray someone doesn't decide to clean it up for me. I haven't opened the Start menu for anything other than to type into the input search bar in probably a decade.
 
I'm a weirdo cuz I still use Quick Launch bar in Windows (and no I don't like pinning stuff to the taskbar, although for UWP apps this is unfortunately the only choice, aside from Start Menu). On Linux I don't even have program shortcuts anywhere, I open programs with keyboard shortcuts.

As for Taskbar location, I keep it on the bottom, but I also have it set to auto-hide.
 
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