how do u move the taskbar to the left side of the screen

definitely MS forgot to give an interface to define the location of taskbar. lets wait till Windows 11 updates.

soso far what i have tried is an 3rd party software can achieve that. but register key can not.

It is incredibly frustrating that this still hasn't been addressed, shocking frankly - this isn't the first thread on this either.

Agreed that ExplorerPatcher works, I used that solution for a while. Note, I was unable to apply certain patches and upgrades to Windows 11, I think likely because ExplorerPatcher was installed.

I have since downgraded to Windows 10. And after Microsoft pushed the Windows 11 to many devices in my network / family network, I've been scrambling to downgrade back to Windows 10 so that I can have the taskbar where it's supposed to be.

Please fix this Microsoft!!

I was able to do so, there is something called explorerpatcher. https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/wiki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEp_1nNeAo 

follow the youtube video for the same.

I agree. I only use my laptop for emails, internet, spreadsheets etc (no gaming) but all computer screens are landscape format - taking away a strip at the bottom (and there is already a strip at the top used up with tabs) means you end up looking at a narrow strip of screen across the middle and have to scroll down more. I'm not a technical person so I can't follow some of the suggestions people have made to solve this problem. Whose idea was it to take away the option to move it? It's really annoying.

I was "forced" tonight to install MS W11 as an "update" to W10. I never approved it. My newest PC has W11 because it installed it when I turned on the PC for the first time (5K pc with RTX 4090 graphics and high end CPU), I just accepted it. But I have other RTX 3090 installed PCs, one on a Race Sim full motion cockpit and a flight sim cockpit which I reject W11 every time when asked. Last "update" to W10 I'm left waiting for an hour and I have W11!!! I never approved it! What the hell?

I ran into this taskbar thing, so despicable of MS. My flight sim has two wall mounted tv's, one on top of the other, vertically. I use VR and use TV's for web pages and spreadsheets that assist my game play. Task bar on bottom is not acceptable, but unlike Win10, I can't do anything about it in Win11! What is this nonsense? I need the task bar on the left side of the screen, vertically mounted displays don't work well with bottom "hidden" task bars. But MS decides to keep on taking options away and telling me how I should use my PC in their opinion. This is so ignorant. What idiots are on the UI team? Stop the "let us simplify it" and give us back our options. Boy I miss the DOS days, I could do so much more with that.