#TASKBAR NOT GOING AWAY UPDATE#
The overflow is the little pop-up menu that appears when you select the arrow to the left of those corner icons.įor the most part, the icons in the overflow window are meant to notify you when there is something that needs to be done - messages that have arrived or an update that is needed. Turns out the corner icons are the icons in the right corner of the taskbar - the ones that show the time and date, your battery status, your volume level, and your Wi-Fi status, among other things. To tell you the truth, when I first saw the phrase “Taskbar corner overflow,” I pictured a bunch of app icons flowing out of the display like Niagara Falls. While the taskbar corner icons and the overflow window aren’t new, I never actually knew what they were called before. Taskbar behaviors include hiding the taskbar and showing unread messages. It also lets you automatically hide the taskbar (something that’s been a taskbar behavior for a very long time) show a badge on taskbar apps to let you know if, say, you have any unread messages handle how the taskbar works on multiple displays and show a clean desktop by clicking on the far right corner of the taskbar. Incidentally, the “Taskbar behaviors” section of the settings lets you do more than move your icons to the left. You can move the icons from the center to the left of the taskbar.
#TASKBAR NOT GOING AWAY WINDOWS 10#
Those of us who having been using Windows 10 (or 7 or earlier iterations) are used to accessing the Start menu from the lower left-hand corner of the screen. You can hide four of the standard taskbar icons. Toggle off any of the four icons - “Search,” “Task view,” “Widgets,” or “Chat” - that you want to hide.Select “Taskbar settings.” (You can also get there by going to “Settings” > “Personalization” > “Taskbar.”).But there are four other icons that can’t be removed but can be hidden. The Start menu icon is, as might be expected, unremovable. Most apps are simple to remove: just right-click on the icon and select “Unpin from taskbar.”Ī few of the icons take a little more effort to remove. You can also pin an app to your taskbar from the “All apps” menu. If you don’t see “Pin to taskbar” in the menu that pops up, then select “More” and you’ll see “Pin to taskbar.” You can also click on the Start icon, select the “All apps” button, and then right-click on the app you want.Right-click on the desktop icon and click on “Show more options.” A longer menu will open up about two-thirds down, you’ll see “Pin to taskbar.”
(Although the fact that Cortana is no longer automatically part of that search box can be considered, by many at least, as a plus.)Īnother thing: the taskbar is now permanently affixed to the bottom of the screen - so if you were more comfortable having it on top of the screen, or on either side, you’re out of luck.Īs you might imagine, Windows users are already posting fixes for at least some of these issues - as long as you’re comfortable tweaking your Windows Registry. The search box is no longer within the taskbar but is accessed by first clicking on the Start menu - an extra step. For example, the old, familiar Start menu with its configurable Live Tiles is now gone. If you’ve updated your computer from Windows 10 to Windows 11, you may find that your taskbar isn’t quite as configurable - and perhaps not quite as useful - as it was before.