![]() ![]() Apps are no longer allowed to customize areas of the taskbar (although this didn’t happen often in Windows 10).When Focus Assist is enabled, you’ll see a crescent moon icon beside the clock.Clicking the date and time shows a list of your notifications as well as a calendar. ![]() There’s no “ People” option in the taskbar.This has been replaced with a widgets button. There’s no Cortana button in the taskbar.RELATED: Did You Know? Windows Has Never Had a "System Tray" Other Miscellaneous Taskbar ChangesĪside from the changes listed above, there are even more according to Microsoft and our testing. In Settings, Microsoft calls this the “overflow area.” There’s currently no way to show them on the taskbar. In the Windows 11 Preview, all of these icons are permanently hidden behind a small carat arrow located just to the left of the Quick Settings button. In previous versions of Windows, apps could create special status icons in a Notification Area (often called the “system tray”) on the far-right side of the taskbar beside the clock. RELATED: How to Quickly Show Your Desktop on Windows 10 The “Notification Area” Is Hidden in an “Overflow Area” In Windows 12, will this “button” become a single pixel in size? Stay tuned! The line will only appear if you hold your mouse cursor over it. In Windows 11, you now have to click on a teeny-tiny sliver of a line in a similar location to show the desktop. In Windows 10, you could quickly show the desktop by clicking a tiny, almost invisible button on the very far-right side of the taskbar (Or, you could press Windows+d, which also works in Windows 11.). RELATED: How to Hide the Annoying Red Number Badges on iPhone App Icons The “Show Desktop” Button Is Now a Tiny Line Once that’s enabled, you’ll see the number of unread messages or notifications listed in a red circle just above the app icon. You can enable it if you turn on “Show badges (unread messages counter) on taskbar apps” in Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar Behaviors. In Windows 11, taskbar icons can have tiny notification badges on them, but this feature is off by default in the Windows 11 Preview. RELATED: How to Change the Height or Width of the Taskbar on Windows 10 Taskbar Icons Hide Notification Badges It seems that dealing with that scenario hasn’t been resolved yet in the Windows 11 Preview release. But if you completely fill up the taskbar with apps, they start stacking up on top of each other in a special section on the right side of the taskbar. ![]() Without labels and with wide resolutions these days, that’s not so much of a problem. In Windows 11, you can’t resize the taskbar at all. In Windows 10, you can drag the top of the taskbar to make it larger or smaller, as long as it’s not locked. RELATED: Windows 11 Won't Let You Move the Taskbar (But It Should) It’s Always the Same Size This might change in a future release, but for now, Microsoft included it in a list of deprecated features. In Windows 11, the taskbar always lives along the bottom edge of the screen, and you can’t move it. In Windows 10, it was easy to drag the taskbar to either edge of your screen, or even to the top. RELATED: How to See Classic Window Labels on Windows 10's Taskbar It’s Glued to the Bottom of the Screen In Windows 11, app windows are always “combined” on the taskbar into a single app icon, and you can’t see any written labels describing their contents on the taskbar itself without hovering over the app icon to get a thumbnail preview or a list. Windows 10 hid taskbar button labels by default (that show each window’s title name written out), but you could still turn them back on using the “Combine Taskbar Labels” option in Settings. RELATED: 5 Ways Windows 11's Taskbar Is Worse Than Windows 10's Icons Only: You Can’t Use Labels Anymore Or, you can press Ctrl+A on your keyboard. To bring it up, you can click the volume and Wi-Fi status icons in the taskbar beside the date and time. With this menu, you can quickly change the system volume, screen brightness, communications options, and more. In place of the Action Center (called up by the notifications button in Windows 10), Windows 11 includes a Quick Settings menu that resembles Control Center for macOS. RELATED: How to Move the Taskbar Icons to the Left on Windows 11 There’s a Quick Settings Button You can still align them to the left if you’d like, but the central layout might seem better on touch screen devices when they’re used as tablets. In the most obvious change to the taskbar since Windows 95, Windows 11 positions the Start button and app icons in the center of the taskbar by default. The Start Menu and App Icons Are Centered
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