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My system just did the lastest windows 11 update and all my tasbar items have been combined. When I go into taskbar behaviours to uncheck the option, the option does not exist? I tried searching settings and nothing appears. What can I do?
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Hi, please try it.
starrt --> run --> gpedit.msc
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar
select "Prevent grouping of taskbar items"
If you set enable, un group icons on taskbar.
This action need restart PC or kill/start explorer.exe
Ahh, thank you so much! I see updates that were blocked for some reason. Hopefully this solves the problem for me, too – it's been driving me crazy for hours! And the chat agents don't seem to know anything about it. (One of them has been trying to gaslight me into believing that this just isn't a Windows feature.)
I already had the 22H2 update and couldn't access this option to deactivate this stupid grouping.
However, after pleding, my IT installed a never version of 22H2: 22621.2506. And hurray, here is the option. And even better, using two screens both taskbars can be used! So, with this update this function works better with win11 than it did with win10!
Still not working. I'm on same build as you.
It should arrive with the update being released tomorrow during the usual Patch Tuesday updates.
