Why we can't move the taskbar in windows11. Can we bring the updates in this version, to move the taskbar position?

Anonymous
2024-05-18T13:15:10+00:00

Hello,

I am facing so much of difficulties while working, as I am habituated to use the task bar position to top or right side of the screen. but Windows 11 doesn't have this feature to move the taskbar. Could you please bring this solution, to move the task bar.

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-01T23:21:18+00:00

    Say Hello to more STUPID decisions by MS to further CONTROL (Not enhance) OUR "Experience"

    To remove this feature serves no purpose whatsoever other than to infuriate high-level users who actually know how to do IT, coding, and use a computer to its fullest potential.

    This is not only a completely unnecessary change, it actually is SLOWING me down with getting to tasks, windows, etc which I have been using for literally 30 years.

    Once again, MS (and other so-called developers) make changes WITHOUT regard to the end-users, and then try to peddle it off as a way to simplify the user experience?

    Obviously MS doesnt care one bit about proficiency amongst those of us who actually set up our work-stations to be the most efficient and work-friendly as possible.

    Thanks once again MS for screwing up a good thing - Another reason I use Classic Shell, and will now piggy-back on a 3rd party program to restore MY ability to have MY best "user experience".

    This is why we need real programmers back in charge, and not these youngsters who think they are "developing" apps (formerly knows as PROGRAMS).

    Change is good...when its done to improve not restrict the end users.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-22T00:36:57+00:00

    please help us bring back taskbar location changing!! its a dealbreaker for me and i am switching back to windows 10 till its back.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-04T14:42:45+00:00

    The taskbar cannot be moved to top of screens in Windows 11, because of obstinate refusal by members of Microsoft to allow it. It is possible that this is a secret initiative to confus confucious and his ilk as they enter text right to left and bottom to top. That of course would be a matter of ultimate security authored by ultimate security in a 'Jack in the Box' protocol edict.

    Microsoft insists that it listens to its users and I don't doubt this. However, they are listening to the wrong users. That is those obsessed with how things look rather than what they do; and those who adore tickling fluffy bunnies because they can from time to time sound incredibly cute. Meanwhile, 350 million Widows 10 users are simply and easily getting stuff done and earning their livings and managing their lives with their OS of choice which does as they wish.

    Therefore, Windows 11 usability is nothing to do with Windows 11 users, is it. There is a genius somewhere so confused about the imperitive to get 11, onto 10 and have 10 users upgrade hardware to do it - that they missed the obvious which 10 users have been screaming for more than 5 years. Put the taskbar back at the top. Now, here, I actually insist that TAB (Taskbar at bottom) be removed from the OS and replaced with TAT (Taskbar at Top). This should be rigorously enforced.

    An effort to assuage those in the clouds ultimately responsible for the pending disaster as Windows based use dissolves into a nightmare , is outlined here Start Menu Makeover but the taskbar cannot move to the highground, and the rest of it is fluff for bunnies and costing a pretty millions of dollars so that the truth can be further hidden behind a collage of useless activity. A smokescree of obsession with how the thing looks and NOT what it does. No TAT, no Windows 11 is a truth for hundreds of millions of otherwise users of Windows 11. The message is never going to reach the clouds because designers responsible for day to operations of !!, are lying to their boss. The question is why? Any usability study of Windows GUI would have painfully discovered the schism of taskbar at top. It was therefore suppressed to make the upgraded GUI unusable for hundreds of millions who would otherwise upgrade.

    Signing off as my alter ego, Billy Sugger. Windows 11 SUCKS.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-23T09:15:57+00:00

    I would like to join the growing chorus in asking that Microsoft PLEASE reinstate the option to move the taskbar wherever the heck we want it! Why we are being dictated to as to where this company thinks its millions (billions?) of unique individual users should ALL have to look to see their respective taskbars is far beyond me. Give the people what we want -- especially when all we want is what we had before. A no-brainier if I've ever seen one, duh! 🤪

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-23T05:34:05+00:00

    Keen to join in on this feedback! Most ergonomic assessments recommend the taskbar be moved to the top or side of the screen to prevent people having further neck issues by looking down all the time!

    Due to neck issues the taskbar at the top of the screen is a "must have" for me based on an Occupational Health & Safety assessment I had forever ago.

    This conscious decision by Microsoft is disturbing and without obvious regard to the health and safety of its users.

    What concerns me is there is no work around to prevent new, or recurrence of, head & neck health issues!

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