Has anyone ever found a fix for this annoying taskbar tab issue?

BSmith81 · Saturday at 12:23 AM

Still looking for a solution for that annoying issue of the tabs being grouped together and can't be separated / rearranged. I had ExplorerPatcher which worked great, until a major Windows update last year killed the compatibility and you can no longer use the Windows 10 taskbar. Plus, EP hasn't been updated in 7 months

Secret Squirrel · Saturday at 3:02 AM

BSmith81 said:
............tabs being grouped together and can't be separated / rearranged.

The Taskbar buttons can be ungrouped. Head over to Windows Settings -> Personalisation -> Taskbar -> Combine taskbar buttons then adjust the settings to your liking.

Irrespective of the above settings, the Taskbar buttons can be rearranged by dragging and dropping them.

BSmith81 · Saturday at 8:56 AM

I don't even have that option, only the never combine option which will merge all files onto one tab, which I don't like.

This is all I have in the behavior section

Secret Squirrel · Saturday at 10:36 AM

BSmith81 said:
...............the never combine option which will merge all files onto one tab.................

The "Never" option is supposed to do the opposite - namely separate the program buttons and display their name labels.

Please provide a screenshot of what's bugging you because I'm not completely understanding you - especially when you talk about "tabs" and "files".

gunrunnerjohn · Saturday at 10:49 AM

My taskbar never does that, but I don't see anything wrong with your settings.

imanlien2020 · Saturday at 3:13 PM

Odd, my problem is say I have firefox open and I have 4 tabs open, on the windows taskbar it seperates every tab out even though I have the checkbox checked to combine them. So how do I fix that?

gunrunnerjohn · Saturday at 4:33 PM

imanlien2020 said:
Odd, my problem is say I have firefox open and I have 4 tabs open, on the windows taskbar it seperates every tab out even though I have the checkbox checked to combine them. So how do I fix that?

I don't think Windows controls that, I have six tabs open and there's only one instance of FF on the taskbar. Are you sure you're not opening new pages in Windows?

BSmith81 · Saturday at 4:39 PM

Basically like this. I can't move any of the 3 file explorer tabs individually.... the whole group moves. And if i open a new file, the new tab will open up next to the last file explorer tab. And You see the 2 Firefox tabs move as one. I want to be able to move each tab individually, like if I wanted to move just the RealPlayer tab to the other side of Spotify, not the entire group

gunrunnerjohn · Saturday at 5:16 PM

Don't know about the Windows Explorer tabs as the tabbed feature that I saw previously in mine disappeared in 24H2, and I can't see how to enable it. However, my Firefox never puts more than one entry on the taskbar.

hdmi · Sunday at 11:23 PM

P.S., ExplorerPatcher version 22621.4317.67.1 works fine for me on Windows 11 version 24H2 build 26100.3915, and works fine alongside these (and various many other) Windhawk mods. On 24H2, the Windows 10 taskbar style option to choose in ExplorerPatcher is named "Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher)". The one named "Windows 10" still works on 23H2 but not 24H2.

Has anyone ever found a fix for this annoying taskbar tab issue?

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