Stuck with old Windows 10 taskbar in my new windows 11

I upgraded my windows 10 to Windows 11. But while doing this, by mistake, I kept the Windows 10 traditional taskbar. How to remove it and use Windows 11 without it?

Hello, may I know how to keep the Windows 10 taskbar in this upgrade? Thank you.

@Osama Nazmy Welcome to the forum. When you upgraded did you have any third party app installed that altered the GUI? If so, uninstall it.
If not, Check settings>personalization>taskbar. I have a virgin taskbar on a PC. Here are my settings. Certain of these options affect only touchscreen devices which I do not have so keep that in mind.

OK Thanks I'll try this.

I really don't remember what I did which resulted in keeping the old Windows 10 task bar in my windows 11.

Some people use ExplorerPatcher or StartAllback to keep the Windows 10 taskbar.
Perhaps you have one of them installed?
New Version of ExplorerPatcher - ElevenForum
StartAllBack - ElevenForum


Best of luck,
Denis

Try3 said:

Some people use ExplorerPatcher or StartAllback to keep the Windows 10 taskbar.

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or Open Shell, or Start11 or Startisback or Rounded TB. They all alter the GUI

I have no third-party software that controls the taskbar. Anyhow, I'm temporarily contented with hiding it. Still, it annoys me since I frequently use PowePoint and always need to move the cursor down the screen, which lets the taskbar appears when I don't need it. Is there a way to dock it up the screen through Windows 11? better: a genuine solution that permanently removes it and restores the Windows 11 large taskbar. I know I can restore the factory setting, but this will either bring me all Windows 10 back or I may have to reinstall my many programs, which I cannot afford the time for. Thanks to all.

This basically depends on why this happened, you "Upgraded", and it shouldn't have occurred if your setup was vanilla (unmodded).

Osama Nazmy said:

I upgraded my windows 10 to Windows 11. But while doing this, by mistake, I kept the Windows 10 traditional taskbar. How to remove it and use Windows 11 without it?

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Just exactly how did you do this "By Mistake"?
This wording implies you had a choice, in this matter, but MS doesn't give you a choice

RuLich said:

Hello, may I know how to keep the Windows 10 taskbar in this upgrade? Thank you.

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Though not very clearly worded, this user is saying, Give me that mistake, I want that choice.
Thing is what exactly annoys you?

Osama Nazmy said:

Still, it annoys me since I frequently use PowePoint and always need to move the cursor down the screen, which lets the taskbar appears when I don't need it. Is there a way to dock it up the screen through Windows 11

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You are not being very clear about what your actual issue is, soo I'm trying to guess from what is wriitten, correct me if I'm wrong.
Upgraded From W10 to W11
Taskbar locked to bottom of Screen.
Taskbar auto hidden at bottom, but you don't like it popping up.

I can't see anything that indicates you have, "By Mistake" the feature many of us had jump through hoops to get
So going off your issues.

frequently use PowePoint and always need to move the cursor down the screen

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As someone that has always used a auto hidden taskbar on the bottom, I have yet to find any program that requires the mouse cursor to reach the auto hide trigger point, (the very bottom of the screen) so this is typically a bad habit thing, you haven't had to develop the habit of not putting the cursor at the bottom, you always had it on top, I'd guess that is something that would annoy me even more, as the Close, minimize, windowed buttons are up there.

Why should you have to adapt?
You shouldn't, I'm just pointing out that the actual cause is your habitual use case, not bad design.

Moving on to the real WTF momennt.
Taskbar locked to bottom of Screen.
That's exactly what I don't like about W11 Taskbar, and the very reason I use a W10 Taskbar instead, is on my three monitor setup, I want my Taskbar, on my left Screen, I run Games on my Main screen, And W11 won't let me move it.

Osama Nazmy said:

restores the Windows 11 large taskbar

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W11 doesn't have a "Large Taskbar", and it can't be resized. W10 does have a resizeable Tasdkbar, upto half the height of your screen.

Your problem is the behavior of not being able to move your Taskbar to the top, but that is caused by W11 Taskbar, and solved by switching to W10 Taskbar. I doubt you even have W10 Taskbar, so why do you think you do?
My stab in the dark guess. "Icons Not in middle", which was forced when W11 launched, but now can selected during the upgrade, to move them to the left.

If I'm right, and you just want to move Taskbar to top, then Windows 10 Taskbar is the solution, not the problem
Explorer Patcher is all you need.

Try3 said:

Some people use ExplorerPatcher
New Version of ExplorerPatcher - ElevenForum

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If I'm wrong, please stop telling us what you think the solution is, and instead tell us exactly what the problem is, and what you actually want to do. Maybe then we can tell you how to achieve the behavior you want.

Would it help if he took a picture of the panel?
Or did he upload a video?

RuLich said:

Would it help if he took a picture of the panel?
Or did he upload a video?

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Maybe, but in my Game Modding, user support experience. A new user that makes an account to post issues., when offered a potential fix, and then is no longer responding, especially in a situation like this, where a wild goose chase started, due to bad 1st post info.
I use RTFM (Read The flipping Manual)*, in this case the Forum/Tutorials already here, to find 99.9% of the solutions, and mys first posts was to help.

That offered solution is their fix every time, and they are just to embarrassed to admit their 1st post mistake, and just stop responding.
It's OK, I'm used to it, no response is "Problem solved", that's good enough for me, and the solution is ALWAYS written for everyone to find by RTFM.
We all make mistakes like this, (Power Users more than most), but the wise learn from their mistakes, and never make the same one twice.

Ignorance is no reason for shame, we all start out ignorant, it's only a problem when you choose to remain ignorant despite factual evidence to the contrary, due to dogmatic belief, and descend down into echo chambers, run by those in power that want to keep you ignorant, and obedient.
Just like Fox News.

* Not "Flipping", I defined the acronym correctly, I never assume knowledge, so define acronyms, and I don't like this type of Forced censorship, I want factual accuracy to much, but in this case I think you all know the actual word I used.
Never understood taking offence to specific "Naughty" words, we all learned them as soon as we could, good dictionaries will define them.
Context matters:
Using such words to offend (attacking the writer, not the subject), deserves censorship if not complete removal of the post.
When a words used correctly, and the context is accurate information, like this use case, it should be left uncensored.

Osama Nazmy said:

I have no third-party software that controls the taskbar. Anyhow, I'm temporarily contented with hiding it. Still, it annoys me since I frequently use PowePoint and always need to move the cursor down the screen, which lets the taskbar appears when I don't need it. Is there a way to dock it up the screen through Windows 11? better: a genuine solution that permanently removes it and restores the Windows 11 large taskbar. I know I can restore the factory setting, but this will either bring me all Windows 10 back or I may have to reinstall my many programs, which I cannot afford the time for. Thanks to all.

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Step #4, here will give you back the Windows 11 large Taskbar.



However... MS has been messing with the Taskbar registry tweaks as well.
So you need to do Part B, here... to allow the tutorial I linked above, to work...



Ofc, this all depends on which version of Windows 11 you are actually running.
The tweak in the 2nd link above, only works on certain versions.

In the Taskbar search box, you can type winver ...to see exactly what Windows 11 version you are running.