The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward

Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by AndroidKitKat on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:25PM (#30019147)

I had this same issue, but the only way I have found is to use something like Explorer Patcher [0], but it "solves" the problem by just replace the Win11 bar with the one from Win10

[0]: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by grimgrin on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:51PM (#30019305)

This is incredible, thank you for linking.

You run it, display instantly looks better, and has a very nicely laid out set of features to play with

Even things like the WiFi flyout (a term I didn't know) can be changed: https://i.imgur.com/JHVvzPG.png

Appears its author even dedicated a blog post specifically to this: https://valinet.ro/2021/11/18/Functional-Windows-10-flyouts-...

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by esalman on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:02AM (#30019373)

The article actually mentions ExplorerPatcher too. I experimented with several taskbar replacements and this is by far the best imo.

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by jabbany on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:48AM (#30020437)

It's great that this exists but also sad that this has to exist.

It looks like this is relying on what are essentially hacks (injecting DLLs into the explorer related processes -- something that apparently can trigger AV false positives) to patch the proprietary DE in Windows, which might break after some future update, costing much of the stability that would go with something proprietary like Windows (at least what stability there is left to have...)

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by dleslie on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:31AM (#30019930)

It can fix the context menu!

Oh hell yes. That was the worst change in Win11.

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by vyrotek on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:18AM (#30019469)

Thanks! I switched over to this and it's working great.

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