Can't un-combine taskbar items in Windows 11 after latest update

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Anonymous
2023-08-02T15:41:08+00:00

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?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-26T20:02:02+00:00

    Please expedite it!!! I am going mad wasting minutes every hour with the wasted mouse hovering and extra clicks now required to get to the window I need to reference for my work in another window. Even 3 or 4 monitors would not help me as the nature of my work requires multiple Word documents and PDFs open at once, as well as several Outlook items....

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-25T21:58:11+00:00

    This is absolutely infuriating! Not being able to ungroup icons on the taskbar is going backwards, not forwards. There is still no option to ungroup in settings. Wish I could revert back to Windows 10. Why do Microsoft do this? Is it a windup?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-25T19:08:15+00:00

    Absolutely absurd that the Never Combine was removed. Makes me want to go with Mac. Who is responsible for QA? This is an incredibly frustrating experience to function and multi-task efficiently. Microsoft made a BAD mistake. Fix it ASAP please!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-09-25T13:47:15+00:00

    I've been using ExplorerPatcher for quite some time to make win11 less ****, but ****'s File Explorer keeps crashing when I use ExplorerPatcher to make the taskbar win10-style, so I was kinda forced to make my taskbar the default win11 style.
    I am amazed that **** is bragging about this "new feature" they're adding to Windows 11 which was already in Windows 10...

    what an incompetence...

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-25T10:50:52+00:00

    I'd revert back to Windows 10 and skip Windows 11 entirely, unless you're willing to wait years for fixes.

    Windows 11 is a badly executed experiment designed for a market that never took off.

    It's effectively an OS designed for tablets with a desktop overlay added as an afterthought.

    Power users and desktop productivity went out the window in favour of oversimplicity.

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