No, Windows 11 nonetheless isn’t capable of transfer your taskbar round. But Microsoft is testing one other function customers need: The capacity to ungroup and badge your apps and home windows on the taskbar.

We’d wish to say that Microsoft’s Windows 11 Insider preview construct 23466 for the Dev Channel contains some the nifty new Windows features that Microsoft announced this week, together with RGB lighting controls, improved Widgets, and so forth. It doesn’t. Instead, there’s even extra — however the Taskbar replace is there, fortunately, as is the new PC migration / restore feature. (Sorry, the upcoming Windows Copilot AI-powered tool will debut in June.)

Essentially, Microsoft is making Windows 11 more like Windows 10 by the ungrouped badging choice (known as “never combined mode”) on the Taskbar. Let’s face it: Windows 11 reveals a tiny little progress bar-like icon on Windows 11 to point what number of home windows or situations of a given utility can be found, and it’s unimaginable to parse. Badging and ungrouping the home windows, like so, solves this drawback. (So does Explorer Patcher, a improbable free program that restores many lacking Windows 11 options.)

“Never combined” mode was one of the crucial requested options, Microsoft stated, in all probability for good motive.

Meet Windows Backup

Microsoft can be launching a brand new Windows Backup app, taking the migration course of that Microsoft detailed earlier and making it a proper utility. Windows Backup is designed to not solely retailer your apps and information within the cloud, but additionally protect the structure for migrating all your information to a brand new PC. Files, folders, apps, and credentials will all be saved within the cloud, tied to your Microsoft account. (If you wish to take a look at this out, Microsoft recommends that you just both arrange a brand new construct on a second PC or use a digital machine.) It is not a substitute for traditional backup software.

Microsoft additionally detailed quite a few tweaks and modifications in its blog post, a few of which we’ve included right here:

• Voice entry textual content authoring: You can now say “correct that” or “spell that” or “click that” to information your voice interactions along with your PC.
• Turn off particular notifications: If you sometimes ignore notifications from an app, Windows will detect that and supply to show them off solely.
• Start menu reorganization: “We are trying out a different model for ranking the most recently used files in the Start menu’s Recommended section that considers when the file was last used, the file extension, and more,” Microsoft stated. “This means you may not see files purely in reverse chronological order of when they were last used.”
• View your Wi-Fi password: Forgotten your Wi-Fi password? You can now see it within the Settings menu.