Change size of Win 11 taskbar: Smaller doesn't work


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How-to Geek had a registry fix for the size of the Win 11 taskbar today, but the small size knocks the date-time and notification icons out of kilter. I'm assuming we just have to wait until the development team gets around to working on the taskbar. He said, hopefully.
 

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I've just tried this myself (to make the taskbar smaller) and it seems to work but as noted by Wisewiz it makes some of the icons misaligned - not ideal but might be worth it for the space with lower resolution screens.
 

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Change Size of Taskbar Icons in Windows 11 Tutorial

Changing the size of the taskbar icons no longer works starting with Windows 11 build 22621.1343. If you wanted to make the taskbar icons larger, you can still increase the DPI scaling level to do so. It will also make everything appear larger though. The taskbar in Windows 11 shows the Start...
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