How to move taskbar to vertical position in windows 11?

Anonymous
2023-04-14T02:18:58+00:00

How do I move the task bar from horizontal position to vertical position? Company just installed windows 11 and I can't seem to figure out how to move it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-20T07:58:13+00:00

    Please bring this feature back.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-18T07:23:14+00:00

    I'm a longtime user of Open Shell (formerly Classic Shell). Open/Classic Shell implement legacy start menu emulators all the way back to NT4/W2K (still my personal preference), but taskbar positioning is not and never was a feature of Open/Classic Shell.

    To position the taskbar vertically under Win11, we need an additional 3rd-party tool. Explorer Patcher (also OSS) has done this trick for me and so far integrates smoothly with Classic Shell. With this, I got my familiar taskbar/start menu setup back. Nonetheless, I wish I could get this self-evident feature natively from Microsoft without having to use "hacks".

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-27T07:39:20+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-06T10:52:02+00:00

    Ok, so I know it's not possible to move task bar to vertical left/right position. In fact it's a reason why I have switched back from win11 back to win10.
    But now at work win10 was updated to win11 and seriosuly I want to break something when I have to work with task bar at the bottm.
    So... Dear Microsoft... WHEN WILL YOU BRING THIS FUNCTIONALITY BACK?!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-14T18:34:14+00:00

    They are smart. So, they decide what a user is allowed to do while pretending to ask users "how to improve"..... 😆 😆 Just as Santa Klaus says, "You will own nothing and you will be happy"... 😑😑 I mean have you found out how they made it so difficult to do simple disc clean up?... used to be simple right click on C drive and choose "property"...

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