Window 11 Taskbar size

Hi,

regedit fix you gave doesnt work in my Company Laptop. Asking to increase the resolution of windows to reduce the height of Taskbar if not a good recommendation.

Going back to windows 10 is not feasible options in my Company laptop. Trying third party tool Windhawk extension is not at all allowed in my Company laptop.

Taskbar resize option is a prominent feature in widnows10, expected more advanced features in WIndows11 on top of this features.

Please tell me when Microsoft is going to fix this?

with regards

Chandranath

I just upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 24H2. I cannot believe how many UI changes have been forced upon the user now - just taking away options that I have been using for over 20 years since XP... for what reasons again?

Anyway, regarding the third-party tool options, I recommend the very inexpensive Start11 to provide many of the options for Taskbar functions that we have become used to.

Highliights based on this thread:

• Can resize the taskbar (after toggling on the setting in Start11 to allow it.
• Can change the sizes (height, width, spacing) of icons in the taskbar.
• Can change the position of the Taskbar (e.g. I am a "top" taskbar type - why in the world Microsoft would take away the option to move or resize the taskbar is really hard to grasp).

I am also evaluating Directory Opus to get more functionality out of my Windows UI, now that Win11 has royally screwed up my productivity for several days now. One thing I do like about Win11 so far is tabbed Explorer windows, but DO has that as well (for a long time).

*** But, Start11 is the lifesaver for those of us still actually USING the taskbar functions that have been taken away inexplicably.

One thing I have not been able to determine is whether I can "stack" the tray icons above the "Quick Launch" icons on the taskbar (in Win7-10, for those of us that like "two rows" on the taskbar, one could left-click-and-hold on the small divider between the running tray icons and the shortcut/quick launch icons and drag it below or above icons to change the position of the tray icons/quick launch icons - I have not been able to reproduce that yet, but Start11 has replaced 90% of the options I was using natively in Windows Taskbar before... HTH some of you too!)

Thank you for this thorough and immensely helpful Reply!!!

I just upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 24H2. I cannot believe how many UI changes have been forced upon the user now - just taking away options that I have been using for over 20 years since XP... for what reasons again?

Anyway, regarding the third-party tool options, I recommend the very inexpensive Start11 to provide many of the options for Taskbar functions that we have become used to.

Highliights based on this thread:

• Can resize the taskbar (after toggling on the setting in Start11 to allow it.
• Can change the sizes (height, width, spacing) of icons in the taskbar.
• Can change the position of the Taskbar (e.g. I am a "top" taskbar type - why in the world Microsoft would take away the option to move or resize the taskbar is really hard to grasp).

I am also evaluating Directory Opus to get more functionality out of my Windows UI, now that Win11 has royally screwed up my productivity for several days now. One thing I do like about Win11 so far is tabbed Explorer windows, but DO has that as well (for a long time).

*** But, Start11 is the lifesaver for those of us still actually USING the taskbar functions that have been taken away inexplicably.

One thing I have not been able to determine is whether I can "stack" the tray icons above the "Quick Launch" icons on the taskbar (in Win7-10, for those of us that like "two rows" on the taskbar, one could left-click-and-hold on the small divider between the running tray icons and the shortcut/quick launch icons and drag it below or above icons to change the position of the tray icons/quick launch icons - I have not been able to reproduce that yet, but Start11 has replaced 90% of the options I was using natively in Windows Taskbar before... HTH some of you too!)

Thank you for your input. I'm going to try Start11.

I have tried Retrobar but it crashed to much. I'm testing StartAllBack but it does not give me the option for two rows of taskbar, that is what I miss the most.

I didn't get if Start11 would let me do that.

Thanks,

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*** Correction (june 2nd).... maybe they have upgrade something because I am able now to make the taskbar grow more rows. StartAllBack works very well for me now.

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On the plus side.. useful to know about 'Start11' app.

On the negative and 'just amazed again at behaviour of M$' side - how dumb is it that we need an app to provide required previous functionality when moving to an 'upgrade'.