The redesigned taskbar in Home windows 11 has had its fair proportion of reward and criticisms because the replace arrived in October 2021, however a 12 months on, Microsoft is engaged on some enhancements.

Whereas a brand new (a lot requested) drag and drop function for the Begin menu remains to be lacking in motion, the looks of the system tray on the underside proper is getting a refresh to raised mirror how labels look in Home windows 11.

There’s additionally the flexibility to lastly cut back the quantity of ‘Really useful’ recordsdata within the Begin menu, however there’s nonetheless a approach to go earlier than you may absolutely customise the menu.

You may already do this improved taskbar in your PC should you’re a Home windows Insider member (opens in new tab), which lets you check out different updates Microsoft is engaged on, however as for when the enhancements will arrive, it might be after the Home windows 11 2022 Replace.

Can we do away with the ‘Really useful’ pane subsequent?

The taskbar has been divisive for a lot of Home windows 11 customers – the taskbar and the Begin menu are arguably an iconic a part of the working system because it debuted in Home windows 95.

Anybody who has used a PC is aware of the place the Begin menu is and the way it works, so getting the key change that Home windows 11 launched was inevitably going to trigger some discourse. Nonetheless, Microsoft has, once more, been gradual to acknowledge these complaints from some customers, and it has been to its detriment.

We’re approaching a 12 months since Home windows 11 debuted, and the Taskbar has barely seen any enhancements. Worse, a former engineer at Microsoft additionally expressed his dismay on the Begin menu in a collection of tweets again in August.

Design issues. Particulars matter.Particularly in UI as iconic because the Home windows Begin menu.I bear in mind the staff making a particular ligature within the Segoe UI font (utilized in Home windows) to make “S” and “t” align superbly for the phrase “Begin”.That is how essential Begin was to Microsoft.August 29, 2022

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Granted, among the enhancements we have seen in early variations of upcoming Home windows 11 updates are welcome, however the ‘Really useful’ part of the Begin menu is the worst half for me. I needn’t see an inventory of not too long ago used recordsdata, and for now, eliminating these recordsdata means I’ve to individually right-click every of them to take away them from the Begin menu.

Let’s examine an choice to have that eliminated, and have icons cowl the menu as a substitute, or maybe a few widgets, such because the Climate.

Whereas we may even see some enhancements within the ‘Second 2’ replace by the point this 12 months ends, you may customise the Begin menu because of Begin11, a utility that may additionally convey again menus from earlier Home windows releases. It might be an excellent various to make use of within the meantime whereas we wait and see what Microsoft has deliberate.

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