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Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword

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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on 6 Feb 2025 13:19:50 GMT, Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> >> In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 3 Feb 2025 10:30:22 +0100, Herbert
> >> Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >> starting the program.  The win10 task bar let you see each of multiple
> >> >> instances of the program, as with Chrome or Firefox, so you couuld click
> >> >> on the one you wanted.  
> >> >
> >> >You can change this in the taskbar settings. But if the taskbar is full,
> >> >then this doesn't help.
> >> 
> >> Why does MS mess things up that work well?
> >
> >  Why is this even a problem? In Windows 10 (and 11 and perhaps even
> >earlier), you see little thumbnail-like windows of the multiple
> >instances if you hover over the icon on the Taskbar. So instead of tiny
> >instances on the Taskbar, you see much bigger/clearer instances above
> >the Taskbar.
> >
> >  For example, I have often multiple instances of the 'Command Prompt'
> >window open and I just hover over the icon on the Taskbar to see
> >which instances I have and then click on the little window of the
> >desired one.
> 
> You say "just" but imagine if there was room for only one item on the
> task bar and to go to any of your programs, you had to hover over it,
> wait for it to display all of them and then click on the one you want. I
> would find that delay very annoying.  Maybe you would too. 

  There is no "wait for it to display all of them"! It's instant! I
can't time it, but it's probably a tenth of a second. Why don't you just
try it, instead of imagining 'problems' which don't actually exist.

  BTW, "imagine if there was room for only one item on the task bar and
to go to any of your programs," has nothing to do with it. It's only
relevant to multiple instances of the *same* program. See/read my
example of multiple instances of the 'Command Prompt' or your example of
multiple instances of Chrome or Firefox. (Just to be sure, I had checked
it for Chrome and it works exactly the same, which is as expected,
because it's a function of Windows, not of Chrome/Firefox/<whatever>.)

> In addition, I gradually moved everything from the ql bar to the task
> bar, but there isn't room for all of the programs I use regularly**. 
> 
> **On win10:  Volume Mixer, Solitaire, File explorer, Free Alarm Clock,
> Notepad++, Notepads, Kindle, Forte Agent, Tunein, Task Manager,
> RadioMaximus, Everything, Wordpad (also gone in win11), CMD, Settings,
> Chrome, MyPhoneExplorer, Firefox, AutoHotKey, Libreoffice Writer, Anvir
> Task Manager

  If I count correctly, that's 22 icons. As I mentioned earlier, I have
plenty of space in both unused areas of my Taskbar. I have currently 16
icons and can easily accomodate 6 more and that's *not* counting the
rather large space used by my System tray icons.

>     and on occasion Fastone Image Viewer, Ifranview, Ransack, XnView,
> Willmaker, Pandora, TccLe, Power Toys, Macrium Reflect, VLC 
>     and on rare occasions Whatsapp, Thunderbird, Battery Viewer, Speccy,
> Zoom, Universal USB Installer, ExpressVPN, Minitool Data Recovery,
> Skype, 
>
> These fit in three rows of the taskbar in win10, and I have 2 rows
> showing with a scroll bar thoughtfully provided by MS on the right, but
> they won't come close to fitting in win11.  

  For those "on occasion" and "on rare occasions" you can use a start
menu (I use Open-Shell Menu) or/and the Desktop. Why would you clutter
your Taskbar with stuff you use "on (rare) occasion(s)"?

  So yes, this maybe functionality in Windows 10 which is no longer in
Windows 11. So you can either sue Microsoft or go on with life and do
things in a bit different way, which has always been possible and is
less cluttered.

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