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How to move Windows 11 taskbar icons to the left

Windows 11 with the Start menu on the left

(Image credit: Microsoft)

Windows 11 has a couple of intriguing features and a nice new rounded corner aesthetic, but what's the Start button doing in the middle of the screen? The change from a left-straight taskbar to a center-aligned taskbar is hard to get secondhand to, but it's pretty easy to overwrite Microsoft's design choice and go by the Start release and taskbar icons back to the unexpended.

To move the taskbar left, right-get across anywhere on the taskbar and select Taskbar Settings from the pop-up menu—if you can call a menu with one item in IT a menu. This will take you directly to the Personalization > Taskbar screen.

Here you can add/remove roughly of the items that appear on the taskbar, such atomic number 3 Search, Task view, Widgets, and Chat, which toilet equal useful for keeping it clean.

The option you'Ra looking at for can be found at the rear end of this screen: Taskbar behaviors. Expand this part by clicking on that, and then set the taskbar alignment to 'Unexhausted' and you're done. Windows the way you recognize and get it on.

The Taskbar settings screen in Windows 11 — (Image cite: Microsoft)

Of course, information technology's easy to revert it to a more central position from this screen. Just determined the taskbar conjunction rear to 'Pore.' This is also where you can elect to automatically hide the taskbar, American Samoa fit as setting whether it appears on all of your displays.

If you're curious as to why a certain icon isn't showing functioning in the tray anymore, here's a list of Windows features that were born from Windows 11. So long, Cortana! (She's still around, just a little more hidden.)

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