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

I bet this is related to the stupid CoPilot nonsense that they are trying to push so hard. So far they are pushing only something else with this locked task bar.

DOES NOT. Your method only moves the Icons on the taskbar to the left in WIN 11 PRO. Taskbar remains stretched across the bottom. Another MS enhancement!

At least for me, I mean the entire taskbar on the right or left not just the icons. I don't want to give up vertical space as it is always the smallest! Moving to the right or left takes up less space because there are always more pixels across than up and down.

Please Microsoft don't take valuable space from us!!

This only moves the taskbar contents to the left. I wanted to move the whole task bar to the left of the screen, which you can do by unlocking the taskbar and then dragging it to the left of the screen.

Basically, this is a killed feature. Just updated to W11 and am thinking about restoring a backup from yesterday.

I had my taskbars - one on the left, and one on the right with W10 - always closer to work than scrolling to bottom left. Probably my age, but left-right motion costs a lot less effort than up-down.

Why does Microsoft always do it's best to destroy a UI we are used to.

Why did XP fail (initially)? Why did W8 fail completely - changes to desktop noone really wants certainly helped there.

Still not as bad as the 'other' when it comes to breaking stuff with updates - but changing a 30+ year old UI feature - is just bad design, besides being unfriendly and uneasy to use.