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Ungroup Taskbar in Windows 11

If you are also anoyed with the new Taskbar in Windows 11 and you rather like the old layout from Windows 10, where you could ungroup each individual window to see all at once and switch quickly between windows, you can follow this guide, which will show you how to do the same with Windows 11.

Here is the default behaviour of the Taskbar in Windows 11

Img1 Windows 11 taskbar default behaviour

Here is the new behaviour of the Taskbar in Windows 11 with the applied patch

Img2 Windows 11 taskbar with StartAllBack utility installed

How to get the new bahaviour

Navigate to startallback.com and download the software which is called StartAllBack.

Img6 Download StartAllBack from startallback.com

Alternatively you could install startallback with the following command via winget:

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winget install startallback

After installing the mentioned software it could be installed and configured as shown below.

Img6 Enable the taskbar ungrouping feature, you can choose between never combine items and combine when full

Click to show additional configuration options

Img3 Choose weather to install only for the current user, of for all users

Img4 Choose Proper 11 to get the native Windows 11 look and feel

Img5 You can disable the customizations to the start menu for the native Windows 11 look and feel

Img7 You can also disable the customizations to the windows explorer isself (context menu)

Now with this tweak applied, Windows 11 is much more suited for real productivity use.

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