txt file, Windows 11 did not give me an option to open it in Notepad++, a popular text editor I had installed. For example, when I tried right clicking on a. Windows 11's greatest crime against usability is its limited context menus which only show you a few options when you right click and often leave out the most important ones. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell\Update\Packages You can get there by hitting Windows key + R and typing regedit into the run box.Ģ. Make sure a third-party Start menu app is installed before you take these steps.ġ.
If you're willing to live with the downsides, here are the steps for getting the Windows 10 taskbar in Windows 11. It also allows you to unlock the taskbar and drag it to the sides or top of the screen. However, if you don't use the classic taskbar, you can get those back in another way, which we'll explain in a section later. On the bright side, enabling the classic taskbar also gives you back the Windows 10 File manager (with ribbon) and the Windows 10 right click context menus. You also must have a third-party Start menu installed, because clicking the Start button on the classic taskbar will do nothing on its own. However, you can search directly from the Start menu and hit Windows key + Tab to get the Task View menu. Considering that the Windows 11 taskbar's Task View and search buttons work, this is a loss of functionality.
The Task View button is worse than useless as it crashes when you click it, causing the taskbar to hide your icons for a minute or two while it recovers, so you should hide it also. What a load of crap.There's a search box, but clicking it does nothing, and you may see a Cortana button that does nothing. I also do a lot of work for which information displayed precisely at the bottom of the windows is of critical importance now that's hidden and I have to manually make non-maximized windows as large as the area outside of the taskbar.
Slower than my old machine even though I am working on a new hardware with better characteristics?), but is especially disgusting given how much it affects productivity - I have many years of deeply ingrained habits of working with maximized windows, and I have wasted the last 3 days trying to make that piece of crap fit to work with (instead of actually being productive in that period).Īnd the bottom of windows being behind the taskbar is only one of the extremely annoying things that are wrong with Windows 10 (did I mention how slow it was initially and how even after I fixed the memory settings that were causing it, it is still somewhat I really really didn't want to do it because I knew it was going to be a crapfest, but I had no choice and was forced to move to Windows 10 because my old laptop was physically falling apart so I had to buy a new one, and of course they only sell them with
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