Window 11 Taskbar size

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!)

Hi there, I am John J.D., a fellow Microsoft user like you.

I understand your concern, and I'm here to help. There's no direct setting to resize the taskbar in Windows 11,

This would be tragic if it only was not comical...

Hey Horace,

Can you please help me with the steps to achieve this Wider /same as windows 10 taskbar, in windows 11,

I would really appreciate your help.

:-)

Here I try to different scale percentages but my system recommends only 100% see now I attach a screenshot of this![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/5d9ab289-89c7-4526-af49-4ab35c008357?platform=QnA

What device are you using, and do you mean by height or width?

Mine is set to the left on my desktop and below is an image of mine. Click on, tap, or activate image to enlarge it.

I am using pc and my mean us taskbar height is like your task and see how my task height size is very big..