Windows 11…the return of Windows

<p>If women were still wearing dresses, the hemlines would change on roughly the same schedule as rounded vs sharp corners in Windows. What once was fresh &amp; new will become dated and cheesy until it again becomes fresh &amp; new. Surprising Windows hasn’t yet had an avocado, pumpkin and harvest gold color theme.</p><p><br></p><p>Despite all the tiny steps forward, I want taskbar toolbars, a feature I’ve been using for decades at this point. Not pinned icons. I cram the toolbar right up against the system tray so that there’s only a narrow button displaying <strong>»</strong> next to the <strong>^</strong> indicating the group of hidden notification icons. I keep links to documentation files in toolbars, files I need occasionally rather than regularly. I’ve had to put them into my Open Shell menu now that Windows 11’s taskbar no longer supports toolbars, and now I have to get used to them on the WRONG SIDE of my taskbar.</p><p><br></p><p>Just happy I’m used to my taskbar being at the bottom of the screen.</p><p><br></p><p>Few Windows users using toolbars vs pinned icons would be the most likely reason MSFT deprecated toolbars. With Internet Explorer finally going the way of Bob and Clippy, MSFT may want to eliminate <strong>%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer</strong>, whence <strong>Quick Launch</strong> lies.</p><p><br></p><p>I’ll just have to wait and hope Stardock fixes this. There is a 3rd party utility which puts a user-specified popup menu into the system tray, but it costs US$40. I may break down and buy it, but not yet.</p>