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Knowing MS I more or less expect them to get the user stuff correct in 12. They have a history of doing that. Skipping versions to get it right. Don't ask me why.Dude. Careful what you wish for!
I had to laugh when I came across this work around for the taskbar, from a PC World article. Actually there's a free app on Git Hub (Explorer Patcher) that does it with a click. But real PC men, those who live inside the command line, want to deep dive. Like Austin told Vince right before he smashed a Steveweiser over his head, "We can do it the easy way, or the hard way!"
And let's face it, if you live inside a terminal shell, who needs to see icons?
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If you don’t want to pay money to change your taskbar’s position, you’ll once again have to dive into the Registry Editor. This time, you need to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3. In this key, you’ll find a Settings binary file. Double click on it to edit, and locate the fifth value on the second line—it should read “03” before you edit anything. Changing this number to 01 and hitting Ok will move to taskbar to the top of the screen on your next restart. Meanwhile, replacing it with 00 will move it to the left, and 02 will put it on the right.
You have to open this key every time you want to move the bar, unfortunately. If you’re a left taskbar person, prepare for disappointment. While you can move the bar to that side, current builds of Windows 11 don’t render it correctly—you may not be able to see your icons.