Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows 10 Security Updates

Re:Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows ... by PrimeMcFly on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:17PM (#38546734)

I've bookmarked your guide, and will use it when I setup a W11 machine in 2025. I haven't used 11 yet, but I understand the taskbar is no longer full length and is now more like the mac dock.

Is there a fix for that other than installing something like OpenShell?

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Re:Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows ... by GoofGarage on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:35PM (#38547804)

It’s not that it’s not full length, it’s that it’s center aligned by default. It’s a very quick change to left-align it again, and that’s in the guide.

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Re:Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows ... by PrimeMcFly on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:47PM (#38547937)

Got it, thanks.

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Re:Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows ... by dimava on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:42AM (#38556868)

I had more problems with it being quite wide and not being able to move to top of screen

That may be fixed with https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher which restores win10 bar, there's no builtin solution to any of the above afaik

Labels, combining, alignment and displayed system icons (search, etc) may be configured in settings

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Re:Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows ... by PrimeMcFly on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:04AM (#38557136)

Honestly I don't even use the win10 bar because it wouldn't let me ungroup applications even if the setting to do so was checked.

I have two monitors, and might want some distances of the same application to be on separate taskbars with two monitors, and it just wouldn't respect that at all.

I use OpenShell currently, but I really shouldn't have to.

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