- Microsoft has applied a useful adjustment to the taskbar in a new view.
- When there are many application icons in the taskbar, they will be reduced intelligently to fit more in
- That avoids being forced to overflow the icons of excess applications to a secondary menu, where they could be lost, but does not have to enable this behavior.
Windows 11 seems to be configured for another adjustment to the taskbar that will be useful for those who like juggling with many applications and maintaining a lot of them working at once.
It is only in the tests for now, but the new introduction at a preview of Windows 11 on the Beta channel (as highlighted by the Verge) is a feature called icon scale of the taskbar.
What normally happens when you open many applications is that when Windows 11 reaches the point where you cannot show all icons, overflow will be separated into a Popout (secondary) menu.
However, with the new icon behavior of the taskbar, what will happen is that Windows 11 will intelligently cut the icons, climbing its size so that more of them can be shown at the same time in the taskbar.
Other notable changes in this new beta compilation (version 26120.3671) include the ability to help you share files more easily. This comes into progress when it drags a file from a folder, which appears a tray at the top of the screen, offering a selection of applications in which you can release said file directly to share it directly.
In addition, for those with co -pilot+ PCs, Microsoft is changing its still controversial recovery function, so it has a “basic search history” added, and click to do now has an option ‘Ask co -pilot’.
ANALYSIS: TASK BAR SMARTS, but only if you want them
The way in which the taskbar currently operates in Windows 11 is not ideal for situations in which it has a large load use load. In these scenarios, some of these applications are transferred elsewhere, to that secondary menu, and could even forget that you have them in execution. Or at least it is a bit clumsy when you want to change to a certain application, and you cannot find it in the bar, so you must click, wait for the secondary menu to appear and then locate the application there.
The smallest icons in the intelligent scale solve this problem, but, of course, the inconvenience with the icons of reduction applications is that they become more difficult to see, at least if you go too far. That is why Microsoft has done this an option, of course, if a better visibility is crucial for you, then you do not have to enable the scale of the taskbar.
There is an option to have it or deactivate it, and a third option to use only the function when the taskbar is full (which is probably what most users who like this idea will be seen).
This is a useful change, then, although one of Apple’s play book: this is how Macos deals with the icons of applications on the dock, and hopefully it is an adjustment that will not take long to move to the launch version of Windows 11. Also hidden in particular at the bottom of recent previous compilations, it is a much larger movement for another element of the Windows 11 interface, in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case which is the change of change.
