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Win10 taskbar in Win11? (lemm.ee)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys! I’ve been pushed on my work machine to use Windows 11. I’m not loving too much the taskbar, which won’t allow to have 2 rows of windows, and the single row of tasks gets a ‘…’ button as soon as it’s getting a bit crowded. This makes it very difficult to find your app. I don’t want to combine tasks, and I’d very much prefer to have two rows of tasks. Is there any trusted (FOSS) way of doing this? Seems there’s no easy registry key to just enable it these days.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

Did you know there is no way to natively see a clock with seconds in Windows 11 unless you enable it permanently in the corner?

Anyway, just another issue you can fix, along with yours, by re-enabling Windows 10 features in the Windows shell (explorer.exe) using ExplorerPatcher

...is what I would say if I wasn't here to preach for KDE Plasma

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I use KDE plasma on everything personal. But this is my work laptop. I hope that one works...I saw it might trigger some AV alerts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Interestingly, ExplorerPatcher recommends not using it on work machines. Dev knows their target audience, LOL. Probably more of a CYA type thing, you know, in case M$ break something and leaves it inoperable, but for a work machine I'd want to run it as stock as possible.

But it's probably the only software that fits your need of being FOSS... Did you get better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I use ExplorerPatcher in a work environment and sometimes the contents of the active cell(s) in Excel get briefly drawn in the top-left of the lock screen when resuming from sleep, after the picture loads but before the clock does. Not a problem for me because unlike some people, I don't store passwords in a spreadsheet protected by the password "qwerty", but still, I wonder if EP is causing this. I'm not uninstalling it though, I love the semi-transparent taskbar I can put the progress printout of a long CLI operation behind while working in a maximized window. Also I don't need to use another third-party program to show a clock with seconds when using Windows 11.

Speaking of setting up a Windows work device with admin rights, there is little that helps more than CTT's winutil.

Reminder that what DOESN'T leak spredsheet contents on the lockscreen is KDE Plasma. And pretty much every distro shipping it eliminates the need for winutil by incorporating a sane package manager out of the box and no hard-to-remove bloat, dark patterns, telemetry or ads.

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