Stack Notification Icons on Taskbar System Tray in Windows 11 Broken by Update


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This past Tuesday update broke the double row taskbar/system tray icons. Neither of the registry keys allow for multiple rows now. I really relied on that.

Does anyone have a solution other than wait and see if Microsoft adds the functionality back in? I don't run any third party apps on my system to make such changes. Mine was done in the registry.

Thanks in advance!
 

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Same here.

The purpose of this update apparently is to "make the PC more tablet-friendly". Please remember, they tried the same thing with Windows 8. Yeah, that worked out so great, didn't it. It seems Microsoft don't learn from their mistakes.

Hope they allow us to re-apply this customization again in a future update. My systray looks so ugly now.
 

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Estelyen said:
Same here.

The purpose of this update apparently is to "make the PC more tablet-friendly". Please remember, they tried the same thing with Windows 8. Yeah, that worked out so great, didn't it. It seems Microsoft don't learn from their mistakes.

Hope they allow us to re-apply this customization again in a future update. My systray looks so ugly now.
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Well what is so stupid about all of this is the default behavior is a single row and there was no Windows setting for it - so as to not affect the tablets. Why do they have to take it away from desktop users? I mean we had to make a registry edit to accomplish it - something not likely to be done on a tablet by a tablet user...
 

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  • OS
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    In-house build
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor 3.70
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte TRX40 DESIGNARE, Rev 1.1
    Memory
    256 GB 8 X 32 GB DDR4-3200 DDR4 SDRAM (24-20-20-38 @ 1600 MHz) XMP 3200 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB)
    Sound Card
    AMD K17.3 - High Definition Audio Controller
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 X Gigabyte Aorus FI27Q-X
    Screen Resolution
    2560X1440
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 2TB 990 EVO PCI-e 4.0 M.2 SSD
    Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2TB, Seagate FireCuda 520 SSD ZP2000GM30002, 2 X ST2000DM008-2FR102, TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100, WDC WD4003FRYZ-01F0DB0
    PSU
    Super Flower LEADEX Gold 1300 watt
    Case
    Corsair Obsidian Series 750D Airflow Edition
    Cooling
    ICEGIANT ProSiphon Elite
    Keyboard
    Corsair Strafe RGB MK2
    Mouse
    Logitech M705 Marathon Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    100Mbps
    Browser
    Vivaldi
    Antivirus
    ESET NOD 32
Exactly my point. I don't mind if they want to make it more attractive to tablet users, Microsoft is a business and there is money to be made. I totally get that and I would even be fine with it. But I think they might be forgetting that Windows is still primarily a desktop PC OS. The market share of tablets is only 5% that of desktop PCs worldwide (source: Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats ).

Guess we'll just have to wait and see if we at least get our registry hack back.
 

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