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Re:Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer suppor... by Goronmon on Thursday July 22, 2021 @05:15PM (#27924450)
This was genuinely one of the more intuitive parts of the task bar.

Is it intuitive? I honestly didn't know this was something you could do, and it doesn't seem to work for me. The most I am able to do while dragging something to the taskbar is to pin it to the application that could open it. Other times I just get the same red 'X' as on Windows 11.

Is there a use pattern that I'm just not thinking of?

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Re:Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer suppor... by hexa22 on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:39AM (#27928892)
I’m sure Microsoft has the stats that shows almost no one uses drag and drop
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Re:Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer suppor... by 0b01 on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:52AM (#27929287)
Yes I think most people right click pin in context menu on an opened application
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Re:Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer suppor... by yodon on Thursday July 22, 2021 @06:18PM (#27925036)
Perhaps right mouse click on the task bar and check to see if you have a checkmark next to "lock the taskbar"
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Re:Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer suppor... by mkl on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:38AM (#27929554)
Even with that check mark, I got the same behaviour as Goronmon. I've now installed 7+ Taskbar Tweaker as mentioned in a comment [1] by wayneftw and that lets you change "Pin to" to "Open with".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27924367

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Re:Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer suppor... by yodon on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:12PM (#27946079)
You'd probably want to remove that check mark if you want to move your taskbar (the checkmark indicates you want to lock it in place so it can't be moved).
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Re:Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer suppor... by feikname on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:25AM (#27927191)
try letting the file stay on the app icon for a few seconds, it should automatically switch to that window.
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