<story><title>Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23690960/microsoft-windows-11-taskbar-never-combine-app-icons-labels-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AstralStorm</author><text>Still no vertical taskbar. Horizontal is a waste of precious screen estate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Springtime</author><text>Vertical has always been much wider than the horizontal layout is tall, at least when using the small taskbar icons setting. However the third-party utility 7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows narrower vertical taskbars, which actually makes the vertical orientation ideal if placed on the left-hand side (the least interacted with edge of a desktop, ie: less likely to be accidentally interacted with).</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23690960/microsoft-windows-11-taskbar-never-combine-app-icons-labels-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AstralStorm</author><text>Still no vertical taskbar. Horizontal is a waste of precious screen estate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Semaphor</author><text>If you are willing to use a commercial (though cheap with $5) app, I use StartAllBack [0] for this.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.startallback.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.startallback.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>