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


W0RKSMARTER

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Windows 11 22H2 Build 22621.1344.

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 thing here
 

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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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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.
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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Windows 11AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processo...256 GB 8 X 32 GB DDR4-3200 DDR4 SDRAM (24-20-...NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (12 GB)
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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 4070 (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
Samsung 4TB 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
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Super Flower LEADEX Gold 1300 watt
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Corsair Obsidian Series 750D Airflow Edition
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ICEGIANT ProSiphon Elite
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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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