- Windows 11 has a useful change for several monitors in a new preview
- You can access the notifications and the calendar component on the secondary instructor
- Previously, it was not possible, even if it was in Windows 10
If you use several monitors with Windows 11, there is a change in the pipeline with the taskbar that you will really enjoy.
Windows Central noticed that Microsoft had provided the possibility of accessing the notification center and the calendar flyout in the taskbar on a secondary screen. This occurred with the latest Windows 11 overview version in the DEV channel (Build 26200.5722).
It is currently the case that if you run two monitors with Windows 11, you can only access these details on the main screen. With the secondary screen, the active elements of the system tray – on the far right of the taskbar – do not work, which means that everything you can do is look at the time and date.
If you want to access the schedule of the calendar (by clicking on the date), you must smile at the main instructor to do so (and the same is true to check the notifications).
However, with the new version of preview, it is possible to click on the parts of the taskbar and access the panels mentioned on the secondary monitor.
Analysis: the return of another Windows 10 functionality which was abandoned
This is another adjustment for Windows 11 which looks like a relatively small movement, but it will actually be a major convenience for those whose PC configuration includes two monitors (or perhaps more). It could be a set of niche of people, granted, but it will be a boon for them – the move has already been welcomed with open arms by some (Windows Central included).
Indeed, you may be wondering why this was not possible first – especially because in Windows 10, you have always been able to access these parts of the taskbar on a secondary instructor.
Well, this is a good question, and it is not the only feature element that fell by the way when Windows 11 arrived. There were a lot of key parts from the interface and the options mysteriously deposited with Windows 10 in the change to Windows 11.
They included the possibility of keeping the taskbar at the bottom of the screen to choose an obvious example (or to “never combine” applications on the taskbar, although this feature has since been added).
The reason why these decisions were made was apparently due to part of the complexity involved in the modifications under the hood with Windows 11 – or at least it is the waves that Microsoft made some time ago now, by a rather unsatisfactory explanation.
In any case, Microsoft recognized in the blog post for the new version of preview that this change is underway to “respond to your comments”, so there were clearly some complaints concerning the missing functionality in question.
Note, however, that this change only takes place during tests for the moment, so all Windows initiates will not see it (although it is possible to force activation, as explained by Leaker Phantomofearth on X).
It will probably take a while before it happens in the finished version of Windows 11, and the function seems to be a probable choice for inclusion in the Big Windows 11 25:2 hour update arriving later this year.
