In Windows 11, you can’t resize the taskbar at all. In Windows 10, you can drag the top of the taskbar to make it larger or smaller, as long as it’s not locked. RELATED: Windows 11 Won't Let You Move the Taskbar (But It Should) It’s Always the Same Size This might change in a future release, but for now, Microsoft included it in a list of deprecated features. In Windows 11, the taskbar always lives along the bottom edge of the screen, and you can’t move it. In Windows 10, it was easy to drag the taskbar to either edge of your screen, or even to the top. RELATED: How to See Classic Window Labels on Windows 10's Taskbar It’s Glued to the Bottom of the Screen In Windows 11, app windows are always “combined” on the taskbar into a single app icon, and you can’t see any written labels describing their contents on the taskbar itself without hovering over the app icon to get a thumbnail preview or a list. Windows 10 hid taskbar button labels by default (that show each window’s title name written out), but you could still turn them back on using the “Combine Taskbar Labels” option in Settings. RELATED: 5 Ways Windows 11's Taskbar Is Worse Than Windows 10's Icons Only: You Can’t Use Labels Anymore Or, you can press Ctrl+A on your keyboard. To bring it up, you can click the volume and Wi-Fi status icons in the taskbar beside the date and time. With this menu, you can quickly change the system volume, screen brightness, communications options, and more. In place of the Action Center (called up by the notifications button in Windows 10), Windows 11 includes a Quick Settings menu that resembles Control Center for macOS. RELATED: How to Move the Taskbar Icons to the Left on Windows 11 There’s a Quick Settings Button

You can still align them to the left if you’d like, but the central layout might seem better on touch screen devices when they’re used as tablets.

In the most obvious change to the taskbar since Windows 95, Windows 11 positions the Start button and app icons in the center of the taskbar by default. The Start Menu and App Icons Are Centered

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