Win 11 Taskbar

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ecc83

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How do you MOVE the fekker!? I have just installed Reaper on this Lenovo E590 laptop and some of the settings are buried in the taskbar. In Win 10 you just "grabbed" the bar and threw it to the side. Don't work for W 11.

Don't like 11, forever popping ***t up. VERY distracting.

Dave.
 
My newest PC has Win 11. Haven't bothered to initialize it yet. I just use Linux instead.
 
Don't you just love the way Microsoft manages to "fix" things that aren't broken.

"Hey, people are moving things on the screen. They aren't putting them where we decided they should be in our design strategy meetings."
"Ok, lets just bury all the controls deep in some obscure menus."
"Fine, if they keep messing up our system, we'll just disable them in Window 12 altogether!"
 
Dave, you can disable a lot of the notifications. They are a royal PITA!
 
TalismanRich said:
Dave, you can disable a lot of the notifications. They are a royal PITA!
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Hi Rich, yes I have the Dummies book and he tells us how to do that. The laptop is ultimately for my son. It is bigger that his present machine, 15.6" from 14" and the processor a bit later and faster gen'8 i5 512 SSD and 16G of ram so it should run his music work for the next five years OK?
I don't want to do too much in the way of tweaking for him? Might bork something he wants but also HE GOTTA LEARN! Dad is 80 in November and deffo not getting any smarter!
I have installed and paid for Reaper and installed the free Cakewalk which I know he uses. I am hoping MAGIX will be doing the massive discount on Samplitude Pro X 8 later this year so I can buy that. Once I have all the DAWs installed I shall make an image of the drive onto an external 1TB drive and use that as an incremental backup system.

My investigations have revealed that Msoft did not keep the method of moving the taskbar (T***S!) for 11? There is a registry hack it seems but I need the "quick flick" facility of W10.

Dave.
 
M'soft probably had complaints from people who would grab the bar by mistake and it would get moved, then they couldn't figure out how to get it back. I've had people say the taskbar just disappeared and they couldn't find it anymore. Turns out that they somehow set "hide the taskbar" and didn't realize that if you pulled the cursor down to the bottom, the taskbar would pop up.

Years ago, I was in some computer user groups, and it was amazing what some people would do to their computers.
 
TalismanRich said:
M'soft probably had complaints from people who would grab the bar by mistake and it would get moved, then they couldn't figure out how to get it back. I've had people say the taskbar just disappeared and they couldn't find it anymore. Turns out that they somehow set "hide the taskbar" and didn't realize that if you pulled the cursor down to the bottom, the taskbar would pop up.

Years ago, I was in some computer user groups, and it was amazing what some people would do to their computers.
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They should of made a simple switch - in control panel - so you could setup the Task Bar the way you want.
 
That's unreal.
Grab to move has been a thing since windows 95, as has right-click>properties.

Definitely feel like we're going backwards on the simple things.
TalismanRich said:
Don't you just love the way Microsoft manages to "fix" things that aren't broken.

"Hey, people are moving things on the screen. They aren't putting them where we decided they should be in our design strategy meetings."
"Ok, lets just bury all the controls deep in some obscure menus."
"Fine, if they keep messing up our system, we'll just disable them in Window 12 altogether!"
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Nailed it ^.
 
I had trouble just trying to cut & paste a file, or copy & paste.
I had to click on 'more options' to get to the paste.
Those things ought to be in the first option list.
Fortunately the windows laptop no longer works properly, and is now a paperweight.
 
Raymond - I do understand people like Linux, but it also means so many really good apps are sort of banned from the club? Mac OS and Windows let you have access to amazing stuff I could not do without!
 
Slouching Raymond said:
I had trouble just trying to cut & paste a file, or copy & paste.
I had to click on 'more options' to get to the paste.
Those things ought to be in the first option list.
Fortunately the windows laptop no longer works properly, and is now a paperweight.
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I use Ctrl-C etc. 90% of the time. There are a few cases where that doesn't work, so I resort to the menu.
 
rob aylestone said:
Raymond - I do understand people like Linux, but it also means so many really good apps are sort of banned from the club? Mac OS and Windows let you have access to amazing stuff I could not do without!
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As the song said... I second that emotion!

I've got Linux on one machine and rarely use it. There are just too many programs that I use on Windows that aren't on Linux.

I have Open Office (actually I use LibreOffice) on both types of machines, plus Reaper. Firefox is on both. But there's no equivalent program to the Tascam control program, my Cyberlink Director software isn't on Linux. My tax software isn't available for Linux, nor is the Quicken that I've used for about 15 or 20 years. The DVD ripper/encoder programs I like are Windows only. There are a few games that I still play in my spare time, but they are Windows as well.

I replaced my aging email / finance / etc machine with a current Win 11 machine and it seems to be running ok. I've converted two out of spec machines to Win 11 (one being my main DAW machine). My laptop, which is capable of running 11 is still Win 10, but I'll probably convert it to 11 within a month.

There are a lot of things that annoy me about Win 11 but I've adapted, or found ways around them. Their menu system is an irritant, but I can always try OpenShell to convert to a Win 10 style start menu. My Epson scan program broke on WIn 11 but I still have my WIn XP machine that works (I use that for scanning old film from my parents, aunts and uncles that I've inherited). Epson scan doesnt work with Linux either so I keep one old machine working with XP and my old WIn10 Dell is sitting on the floor in the basement if I need it.

My brother is firmly entrenched in Linux, but he keeps a Win machine so that he can do his taxes and run a few other program that aren't available. Last year he grabbed a very basic Acer laptop with Win 11 to handle those tasks. He doesn't do quite the same things that I do, so Linux works great for him about 95% of the time. For me Linux is good for maybe 30 or 40% of my time. At that level, I'll just stick with Windows.
 
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