- Windows 11 has a useful change for multiple monitors in a new view preview
- You can access the notifications and the calendar flyout on the secondary monitor
- Previously that was not possible, although it is in Windows 10
If you use multiple monitors with Windows 11, there is a change in the pipe with the taskbar that you are really going to appreciate.
Windows Central noticed that Microsoft has brought the ability to access the notification center and a calendar flow in the taskbar on a secondary screen. This has happened with the latest previous version of Windows 11 on the DEV channel (Build 26200.5722).
Currently it is the case that if you are running two monitors with Windows 11, you can only access these details on the main screen. With the secondary screen, the active elements of the system tray, in the right end of the taskbar, do not work, which means that all you can do is look at the time and date.
If you want to access the calendar panel (by clicking on the date), you must mousing the main monitor to do so (and the same is true to verify notifications).
However, with the new preview, it is possible to click on those parts of the taskbar and access the panels mentioned in the secondary monitor.
Analysis: The return of another Windows 10 feature that was abandoned
This is another adjustment for Windows 11 that sounds like a relatively small movement, but in reality it will be an important convenience for those whose PC configuration includes two monitors (or perhaps more). That could be a niche of people, granted, but it will be a great blessing to them: the movement has already been welcome with open arms by some (Central Windows included).
In fact, it is possible that you wonder why this was not possible in the first place, especially because in Windows 10 it has always been able to access these parts of the taskbar in a secondary monitor.
Well, that is a good question, and it is not the only function of functionality that was on the road when Windows 11. There were enough key interface pieces and options that were mysteriously left from Windows 10 in the change to Windows 11.
They included the ability to keep the taskbar from the bottom of the screen to choose an obvious example (or “never combine” applications in the taskbar, although this functionality has been added since then).
The reason why these decisions were made apparently reduced to some of the complexity involved in the changes under the hood with Windows 11, or at least those were the vague noises that Microsoft did some time ago, through a quite unsatisfactory explanation.
In any case, Microsoft acknowledged in the blog publication of the new construction preview that this change is being made to “address their comments”, so there has clearly been some complaints about the missing functionality in question.
Keep in mind that this change is only being implemented in the tests for now, so not all Windows insiders will see it (although it is possible to force a qualification, as explained by Phantomofearth of Leaker in X).
It will probably spend time before this reaches the finished version of Windows 11, and the feature seems like a probable choice for inclusion in the great Windows 11 25h2 update that arrives at the end of this year.
