What if it became possible to resize the Windows taskbar without being limited to the default options?
We’ve been talking about this for several weeks now: Microsoft is moving toward offering more customization options for Windows 11. It’s about time, some might say, given that the Windows community has been calling for these features for years. Recently, we discussed the introduction of new options to make the context menu of the flagship operating system more customizable. “We’re working to make context menus faster, simpler by default, and configurable to your preferences. More information on our approach will be available soon,” Marcus Ash said at the time, though he didn’t go into detail about the planned timeline, for example.
The standard-size taskbar © Clubic
It’s much the same story today with another key element of Windows 11: its taskbar. In an article published earlier this week, the French website Clubic revisits the issue and notes that the customization options already spotted in previous builds of Windows 11 are now making their way more directly into the system’s personalization settings. As Clubic explains, “the idea is no longer just to shrink the icons when the taskbar is full, but rather to give users the choice between a normal-sized taskbar or a slimmer one.”
The taskbar in its slimmed-down version © Clubic
Microsoft is therefore preparing a full-fledged taskbar size adjustment: a compact mode allows users to make the taskbar thinner, with icons automatically adapting to this new layout. Better yet, this new option doesn’t replace—but rather complements—the old option, which simply allowed for the display of “smaller buttons.” According to Clubic, the two options will be complementary: “one to adjust the taskbar’s size, the other to adjust the icons’ size.” We invite you to read the Clubic article to learn more and to find out how to enable the compact, movable taskbar right now, while you wait for Microsoft to roll out these features through the public channels of Windows Update.
