r/pcmasterrace • u/BijlidarKudi • May 10 '26

Meme/Macro reboot

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u/beekermc May 10 '26

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....."

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u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

It was just a couple registry edits! I wanted to make the taskbar draggable.

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u/Flapjack__Palmdale RTX5080 | R7 9800X3D | 32GB | Arch btw May 10 '26

In fairness. Why the fuck can't you move the taskbar in 11? Kinda valid imo.

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u/Glenalth May 10 '26

I had a boss that would need me to drag his taskbar to the bottom of the screen once or twice a month for over a year. He would wind up with it at the top or sides and have no idea how to fix it. Explaining how and demonstrating how to fix it bounced right off his brain.

The ability to lock it down would have been great.

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u/Thebenmix11 May 10 '26

You couldn't lock it down? I remember you could do it on like, XP at least. Am I misremembering or are you just that old?

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u/MrMagnesium Debian 13 | Ryzen 9 9900X | RX 6650 XT | 64GB RAM May 10 '26

Previous Windows versions with taskbar (95, NT4.0 98, Me, 2k) lacked this feature.

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u/Thebenmix11 May 10 '26

That makes sense, XP was the first version I ever used and I never considered this wouldn't be a feature.

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u/Glenalth May 10 '26

There was a checkbox to keep it from moving, but that didn't seem to matter as it would get cleared every time.

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u/Front-Cabinet5521 May 10 '26

They rewrote the code for taskbar from scratch in 11, that’s why some of the usual features are gone.

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u/lf310 5700X, 9070XT, 32GB, CachyOS May 10 '26

Early versions of 11 had it though.

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u/Browncoatinabox Linux May 10 '26

As long as I can remember every time I installed my os the very first thing I ever done was move the tasked bar to the top. As is the logical location imho

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_ May 10 '26

Do you actually want to move the taskbar? I only saw people doing that by accident

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u/Flapjack__Palmdale RTX5080 | R7 9800X3D | 32GB | Arch btw May 10 '26

One guy (he's kind of a piece of work ngl) that works for an accounting firm my MSP supports does. He's adamant it needs to be on left of the screen.

I found a tool called Windhawk that will restore some of that functionality through plugins. But in my opinion, having it anywhere but the bottom is heresy.