I currently use an add-on program that lets me put my Windows 11 taskbar at the top of my monitor. It’s one of the many ways in which Windows 11 is a step back from Windows 10, and here’s another: when you open the Notification Center from a secondary monitor, it always appears on your primary screen. People have been raising a fuss over this for a while, and it looks like Microsoft is finally going to fix it. Four years later. Woo.
The newest version of the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build (Dev Channel KB5062669) includes viewing the Notification Center notifications, calendar, the larger clock, and other stuff in that right-hand interface on secondary monitors—which, as Windows Central notes, is also something that was perfectly functional in Windows 10 and was removed from the revamped version of the taskbar. And since Microsoft has made this change specifically to address feedback from users, it seems they weren’t the only ones who were miffed by this missing functionality.
Features that show up in pre-release builds of Windows don’t automatically progress to full release, but given the attention that this particular change is getting on the Windows Insider Blog, it seems very likely that it’ll show up in this year’s big Windows update. Other changes include a grid view on the Start Menu search bar and some updates to the spam Windows 11 gives you when you first boot up.
Cool, cool. Microsoft, could you please let me put the taskbar on top? Without paying someone to un-break your operating system, and preferably without stuffing it full of more Copilot stuff? Thanks in advance… probably way in advance.
