Look, Windows 11’s ultra-nerfed taskbar sucks. It simply does. But hopeful tidbits from new Windows Insider preview builds recommend about to get a lot extra helpful, streamlining your Windows productivity within the course of.

First up, a much-needed correction. Windows 10 provides a search bar proper within the taskbar, the place you possibly can kind in a question and ship your system a-scouring with a easy click on of you Enter button. But Windows 11 maddeningly changed that with a search button that as an alternative opens a separate pop-up window used for search, forcing you to navigate a number of clicks and interfaces simply to discover a file. Why, Microsoft, why?

Fortunately, that’s about to finish. As noticed by Tom’s Hardware, the most recent Windows 11 Release Preview as soon as once more locations a correct search bar again within the taskbar—and higher but, it’s enabled by default, not less than within the Release Preview. It can’t come quickly sufficient.

Next, Internet detectives found a new taskbar function that might render the most typical purpose to open the Task Manager out of date. As first reported by Bleeping Computer, Twitter consumer PhantomOfEarth discovered an possibility hidden within the new Windows 11 Insider construct 25300 that permits you to forcibly finish a job by merely right-clicking on its icon within the taskbar. Yessssss.

When video games get wonky or functions freeze, the simplest method round it’s normally to press Crtl + Shift + Esc to summon the Task Manager, discover the troublesome app within the energetic Processes tab, click on on it, then choose End Task. Having that possibility a easy right-click away in your taskbar could be a large high quality of life improve.

If it sees the sunshine of day, that’s. Phantom Ocean wanted to dig deep into the heart of the Insider construct utilizing a custom-made ViVe utility to seek out and unlock the potential. Microsoft did not intend this function to see the sunshine of day but and it could nonetheless be canned. But I hope it doesn’t.

Neither of those handy-dandy upgrades will make the Windows 11 taskbar’s controversial interface a lot better. But they need to prevent time in your on a regular basis life and each second you spend not clicking by means of needlessly tedious interfaces is a second you get to spend truly having fun with your life. Nobody likes preventing with computer systems for no purpose.

Speaking of, in the event you’re not a fan of Windows 11’s new-look design on the whole, right here’s how to make Windows 11 look like Windows 10.