Windows11DragAndDropToTaskbarFix VS ExplorerPatcher

Here's the Github for it.

I don't know, but yeah, he's right, they could have done it easily. I posted it in another response in the thread but https://github.com/HerMajestyDrMona/Windows11DragAndDropToTaskbarFix has existed for ages now and it's a completely seamless fix save for a minor visual issue. If MS wanted to, they could have just baked in this fix with an update months ago. They hide behind the rewrite, but plain and simple a seamless 3rd party fix has been around for ages, MS could have done it in a week tops if they wanted to, likely an afternoon or, once again, just use the fix directly and bake it into the next update. There is no non-intentional reason for it still not being implemented.

There is a fix for that: https://github.com/HerMajestyDrMona/Windows11DragAndDropToTaskbarFix

You'll need 3rd party help. Drag & Drop, (free) https://github.com/HerMajestyDrMona/Windows11DragAndDropToTaskbarFix, Windows says they're bringing it back in a future feature update, until then there's this fix.

If you use and need the Drag & Drop feature, then you'll need this, Drag & Drop, (free) https://github.com/HerMajestyDrMona/Windows11DragAndDropToTaskbarFix. Windows says it's coming back in a future update.

You can use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to change the hotkey

> Windows 11 brings absolutely nothing on the table

It also removes a leg from the table, the one labelled 'usability'.

Attaching a 3rd-party leg to fill the gap helps (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher), but it's not an ideal solution

ExplorerPatcher

I had more problems with it being wide, merging all app windows in a single icon, showing only icon rather then app title, and not being able to move to top of screen

That may be fixed with https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher which restores win10 bar, there's no builtin solution to any of the above afaik

Thanks for letting me know. I looked into it, and apparently it's still even possible to activate on later versions of Windows with registry edits and helper software: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/discussions/167

Not going to install something that seems so vague, but I do use ExplorerPatcher [1] on my Windows 11 machines to basically re-create Windows 10 UI and fix all of the annoyances I have with Windows 11. I've got the old right click menu, the old task bar, the old alt-tab interface, pretty much the whole thing. Only reason I use Windows 11 over Windows 10 is because Windows 11 seems to handle my triple monitor setup better, especially when waking up from sleep.

[1] - https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher