5 Things You Could Not Do In WINDOWS 11, But Can Now!

When Windows 11 was launched it was extremely disappointing to see that Microsoft had implemented a troubling amount of UX limitations.

In this video, we’re going to take a look at what has changed in the past couple of years, for the better.

Video Chapters:

0:00 Limitations
0:56 Drag&Drop #1
2:08 Drag&Drop #2
2:57 Ungroup Windows
4:27 Folder Icons
5:21 Start Customization
6:32 The Strange Future

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[piyush]

Honestly, the average user does not care whether the OS was built from ground up or whatever security bullshit they try to shove down everyone's throat. What people care about is feature parity with whatever there was in the past. If features that were taken for granted in a previous version are literally missing, that's not an upgrade. Switching from Windows 7 to Windows 10 was relatively painless simply because Windows 10 at least had feature parity with Windows 7.

It's been 2 years and there's still no way to have a vertical task bar (something that Windows XP could do mind you). After all that progress, Windows 11 feels like a skinned Windows 98 from a feature perspective. I'm not here to look for alternatives and registry edits to get something that was standard in past operating systems. If I have to tinker so much, I'd rather just use Linux which is far more customizable (which I use for work anyway).

[motoryzen]

2 more things you STILL can't do in Winturd 11

1. create a toolbar folder AND place it inside your taskbar.
== Why would anyone want this? Simple. if you're like me ( when I used to use Windows ) and you wanted separate docs, pics, music, movies, downloads, game shortcuts...etc folders....good luck having separate one click folders to " pin " right to your taskbar since windows 7 and newer without a Toolbar Folder.

Toolbar folder = lets you left click drag or copy/paste ...ANYTHING....you want one-click access to ..right on the document files? Yeap. included.

2. Actually OWN..and FULLY control...( what is supposed to be ) ..YOUR have a far more reasonable level of privacy.

Good luck with that.

ANY time you boot up any pc connected online for a reasonable amount of time, = you down own that PC..microsoft does... and they can..., they have...and they WILL continue to execute whatever arbitrary code they see fit.

You can installed and auto launch on system boot up..all the de-bs-microcrap scripts all ya want, but in the end...an inevitable update..WILL undo.what you've done with that/those scripts.

Why?

Simple. the Updates engine is literally BUILT...into the kernel..as is telemetry. ( and yes...again..I know about Chris Titus Tech's efforts over the years..and he is an awesome asset to humanity in the PC and networking tech world), but facts don't care about anyone's feelings regarding Windows Kernel editing access...which .NONE of us normies have that only microsoft software OS devs have.

Solution?

Take reasonable baby steps towards migrating to Linux ( Mint Cinnamon will probably be your most gentle transition). Start with practice using cross platform applications instead of Microsoft proprietary ones.

[TagetesAlkesta]

The reason a lot of features went missing is because Microsoft opted to rebuild several parts of the UX from the ground up. The Windows 11 taskbar is a completely new, for example, and I assume at launch they just hadn’t gotten around to adding the drag and drop feature to it yet.

[notSignum]

honestly the 2 biggest thing that still annoy the hell out of me is the inability to set the "more options" context menu as default behaviour and the inability to enable small taskbar icons. the taskbar felt so fucking massive compared to 10 with small icons when i first upgraded and the amount of time i've wasted at this point manually opening the proper context menu is insane.

[Burnr-hwzs]

I use Explorer Patcher to get the Windows 10 Taskbar and Start Menu in Windows 11 which have all the features.

[sarojandongol]

feel like someone should just make an updated roadmap or checklist kinda thing that tracks things/features windows 10 has/still does better than windows 11 which also shows thing that were not there but have gradually been added like here

[kunalzshah]

Bottom-line is, microsoft has gone mad.

They should ideally keep doing their security updates in the background, and keep the XP UI and functionality.

Worst if screwing around with keyboard shortcuts for word Excel and other programs.

[pwatoscry]

you still cant move your taskbar, its super annoying for ultra wide monitors, i need to see the time and that extra space vertically is so nice. still use win 10 coz of it or remote in from a win 10 device with the taskbar for time and other apps

[Proferk]

1:05 they didn't *remove* it. Thing is, they never added it in the first place. They rewrote the taskbar. The win11 taskbar isn't a derivative work of the win10 taskbar. It's written from the ground up using a completely different UI framework. They just never implemented the drag and drop feature onto the new taskbar, perhaps because the dev who coded the taskbar didn't use the feature himself, and it was only added once the people complained.

[TheOnlyName]

Two big things I'm still annoyed about are how you can't move the taskbar to the top (my preference on my PC) or sides of the screen, and how you can't view seconds above the calendar like you could before.

[pallenda]

The not being able to ungroup has pissed me off since jan 2023 when I got win11 at work. Still doesn't work. But microsoft had time to add tons of useless crap.

[joweraDE]

I can finally consider Windows 11 usable, but honestly I still don't want to switch

[davinp]

The Windows 11 Start Menu feels like a downgrade of the Windows 10 Start Menu. I liked in that in the Windows 10 start menu, you could show all apps list in the left column of the start menu next to your pin apps. You cannot do that in Windows 11. Orginally you could not put apps into folders until it was added in 22H2, which the Windows 10 start menu had. Also, the Windows 10 Start Menu you could right click an icon and get a jump list of the recent files which is also missing from the Windows 11 Start Menu

[AbdulTawil]

I can no longer open the Clock/Calendar from Taskbar in Multiple screen, has there been any workaround for this?

[Radidsh]

You can now also have different wallpapers on each monitor connected to the PC, as opposed to being forced to use the same wallpaper across all monitors, and without any third party tools at that.

[Raelworld]

MS is baffling. They had the perfect mix of customisation and usability with the Windows 7 start menu, then gradually removed it all. I use Windows 11 now with StartAllBack and it's honestly indistinguishable from the old system, including the toolbar.

[sealpotat]

I remember not being able to drag and drop from full screen window. Unfortunately that's the time we live in.

[justyaxin]

Thank for reminding I can ungroup taskbar apps since Momentum 4 update. This will help me too much.

[Khanh]

I'm still using Windows 10 and I am proud of it.

[Floris_VI]

Good timing, i just watched your other video from a year ago.