How to move taskbar to vertical position in windows 11?

G'day,

I am not joking when I say that I had to retire when my office "upgraded" to Win 11.

• I've been a a high-functioning IT professional using Microsoft products since 1986.
• But now, I cannot use Windows 11 to get work done, because
  • I regularly have 30-40 files open among 6 to 10 applications (on 3 screens).
  • the cognitive overload when switching contexts tires me out within minutes.
  • The restrictions on the Win 11 start bar have crippled by ability to manage this.
• Going back to Win 10 start bar in my home projects solved the issue.

I have been involved with studies on worker's personal productivity when using different Windows configurations.

Once a knowledge worker becomes comfortable with the vertical task bar, unstacked and with file names, their productivity significantly improves.

The converse is also true.

This is why the earlier Windows designers made the great decisions they did and provided the vertical start bar.

Additionally,

• Vertical bars are a better utilization of modern wider screen space.
• The vertical start-bar allows us to see a grouped list of the application AND file-names being worked on (if you un-stack the icon).
  • The file names do not move relative positions on the task-bar while they are open.
  • So the user does not need to break flow to search through pop-up screen pics.
  • A single click switches context. No mental effort required.
• The bar can be set up between two monitors, meaning mouse movement path to the target file is reduced on average.
• All of this significantly reduces the cognitive load when navigating.

Of course, Windows users that only have a couple of apps and files open at a time are not affected.

But, they should not dictate the direction of this important, iconic software!

Please Microsoft... your designers got the designs correct in the 90s.

Please, please, please! bring these excellent ideas back to the product.

Thanks,

Mike

Due to the lack of customization of vertical bar in Windows 10, the vertical taskbar is bigger than it should be, that I am using 7+taskbar to change and customize the vertical taskbar to a smaller and best fit size; hope one day, Microsoft will take this vertical bar to consideration to make it neater and smaller. Here is my screenshot of my windows 10's taskbar customized with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to re-locate it to the vertical right side making my screen become more efficient to display important information on the widescreen than if I use the taskbar in the classic bottom.

What kind of upgrade is this:

It pushes the prompt to update from Win 10 to Win 11 only to instantly degrade the user experience with this joke of not being able to keep the taskbar in a vertical position.

Why am I not even surprised a lot?

Need the taskbar on the left side, bottom took a lots of space for me.

No, they are not kidding you. They are not making the taskbar adjustable. I mean why they have to call it task bar "behavior"(like it has mind of its own?) just to move START Windows icon to the left? The use of linguistics itself is creepy. If it ain't broke, we must brake...is their motto.