- Microsoft applied a useful adjustment to the taskbar in a new preview version
- When there are many application icons on the taskbar, they will be reduced intelligently to adapt more
- This avoids being forced to overflow icons from excess applications to a secondary menu, where they could get lost – but you do not have to allow this behavior
Windows 11 seems to be defined for another taskbar adjustment which will be practical for those who like to juggle a lot of applications and keep a pile in progress at the same time.
It’s just in the tests for the moment, but the new introduction to an overview of Windows 11 in the beta channel (as the rod pointed out) is a functionality called Taskbar Icon Scaling.
What is happening normally when you open a lot of applications is that when Windows 11 will come to the point where it cannot display all icons, the overflow will be separated into a menu (secondary).
With the new behavior of the icon of the taskbar, however, what will happen instead, is that Windows 11 will intelligently cut the icons, the scale of their size so that more of them can be displayed at a given moment in the taskbar.
Other notable changes in this new beta version (version 26120.3671) include a capacity to help you share files more easily. It starts when you drag a file from a folder, after which a tray appears at the top of the screen, offering a selection of applications in which you can submit the said file directly to share it directly.
In addition, for those who have Copilot + PCS, Microsoft changes its always controversial recall function, so it has a “basic search history”, and click to make an option “ Centile ”.
Analysis: Addition of the taskbar, but only if you want them
The way the taskbar is currently working in Windows 11 is not ideal for situations where you have a heavy charge of using applications. In these scenarios, some of these applications are extinguished elsewhere, in this secondary menu, and you could even forget that you have them in progress because of this. Or at least, it’s a bit clumsy when you want to switch to a given application, and you cannot find it on the bar, so you have to click, wait for the said secondary menu, then locate the application.
The smaller and intelligently on -scale icons solve this problem, but of course, the disadvantage with narrowing application icons is that they become more difficult to see, at least if you go too far. This is why Microsoft has made a choice of it, of course – if better visibility is crucial for you, then you do not have to allow the scale of the task bars.
There is an option to have it on or deactivate it, and a third choice to use the functionality only when the taskbar is full (which is likely what the majority of users who like this idea will happen again).
It is a useful change, then, although Apple Playbook – this is how MacOS takes care of the application icons on the platform – and I hope that it is an adjustment that will not take too much time to spend the version of Windows 11. In particular also hidden in the background of the recent forecasting is a much more important decision for another fundamental element of the Windows 11 interface – in this case, which is a potential that has the most change.
