Ungroup wifi, volume and battery from taskbar

irritateduser · Jan 9, 2023

Is there a way to ungroup the wifi, volume and battery from the taskbar. At the moment if I click on any one of them it opens a window to manage all three of them. Eg if I click on volume, I want to only see the volume settings.

I appreciate any help.

Thank you

Bree · Jan 9, 2023

irritateduser said:
Is there a way to ungroup the wifi, volume and battery from the taskbar. At the moment if I click on any one of them it opens a window to manage all three of them.

No. However if you right-click on one of them you'll get links to open the relevant settings, eg: right-clicking on volume gets this:

Berton · Jan 9, 2023

Or right-click the Taskbar, click Taskbar settings then find this that should help:

Edwin · Jan 9, 2023

StartAllBack..., yeah, yeah, yeah..., I know, you're gettin sick of hearing it, but...,
... desperate times call for desperate measures!!!

irritateduser · Jan 9, 2023

I appreciate the replies but none of those things are what I'm looking for.

I just want to left click once on each icon and see only info related to that icon. I like things to be clean and efficient. At the moment it just seems cluttered and messy to (for example) click on the sound icon and then the window pops up with battery, display brightness, wifi settings, airplane mode etc - why do I have to see all that info when I just want to adjust the volume? Makes no sense.

Berton · Jan 9, 2023

Right click\

Left click

Edwin · Jan 9, 2023

irritateduser said:
I just want to left click once on each icon and see only info related to that icon.... ... I just want to adjust the volume? Makes no sense.

It's a poor design choice on MS's part! There are no alternatives besides 3rd party software.

You could use keyboard volume keys, though...

Berton · Jan 9, 2023

But then we don't anything about the computer involved, all Notebooks and most Desktop keyboards of the last several years include Volume and Brightness keys plus some others.

badrobot · Jan 9, 2023

irritateduser said:
I appreciate the replies but none of those things are what I'm looking for.

I just want to left click once on each icon and see only info related to that icon. I like things to be clean and efficient. At the moment it just seems cluttered and messy to (for example) click on the sound icon and then the window pops up with battery, display brightness, wifi settings, airplane mode etc - why do I have to see all that info when I just want to adjust the volume? Makes no sense.

There are other things you can do to efficiently adjust a volume.
I personally have my mouse thumb keys set to adjust volume up and down. Any mouse with back and forward buttons can be customized for this.

I also have my stream deck setup for volume control but I know it is not for everybody. Bottom line is, you may already have a hardware that can do stuffs like this. Most keyboards have media control buttons too.

glasskuter · Jan 10, 2023

Just another MS quirk. One either lives with it , or installs third party software to deal with it. It is what it is. I, too, use the volume up/down keys on my keyboard so I get the cute little volume bar as @Edwin showed in post #7.

kiwisteve · Jan 10, 2023

With my standard Beta, new features active, for the group a left-click gives me all group component functionality, right-click on a group component gives me functionality specific to the component. Better still, with the pointer over the Sound icon, I use my scroll wheel to adjust volume.

Edwin · Jan 10, 2023

badrobot said:
I personally have my mouse thumb keys set to adjust volume up and down.

Mine's the horizontal scroll wheel...

Edwin · Jan 10, 2023

kiwisteve said:
Better still, with the pointer over the Sound icon, I use my scroll wheel to adjust volume.

Forgot about that!

Edwin · Jan 10, 2023

Berton said:
But then we don't anything about the computer involved, all Notebooks and most Desktop keyboards of the last several years include Volume and Brightness keys plus some others.

And, if it's a Trackpad, there are gestures...