Through the decades ofWindows, we always had the ability to move the taskbar at our whim.

Some prefer the classic left side or right side, similar to distros like Ubuntu.

It often helped in taking full advantage of the wide-screen monitors that have become commonplace.

Move Taskbar in Windows 11

It takes under five minutes for a beginner to do and is straightforward when you follow the steps.

It often breaks the user interface and the taskbar in this case.

You will get the gist as we move the taskbar to the left or right of the screen.

move taskbar windows 11

PressCtrl+Rtogether on the keyboard to bring up the RUN prompt.

bang out inregedit and press ENTER.A prompt asking for administrator permission may appear.

Accept it from a primary account or ask the administrator to allow it.

Open Regedit for Taskbar

2.Now we are inside the Registry editor.

Paste this in address in the address bar and pressENTERas denoted by A.

The other way is to manually browse to the address.

Windows 11 Regedit

3.You will land in theStuckRect3registry.initiate the controls, denoted by B, through a double-click.

A table of binary numbers in different rows will appear.

In here, head to the second row and the fifth column as denoted by the arrow.

Windows 11 taskbar broken on left and right

Double press the number and change it from 03 to 01 by simply typing the numbers.

Press OK (or ENTER on the keyboard) to save the prefs.

Replace the numbers with reference to the table.

CMD in Windows 11

The only usable thing is the volume-rocker laden quick-access bar which barely functions.

4.The first part is done, now head to the command prompt for restarting the explorer process.

5.This step will be in two sub-parts.

Windows 11 Explorer process

First, we will kill the explorer process and then restart it to the change in effect.

Here atFIRST, we will kill the explorer.exe process to stop the entire process tree.

bang out in the follow and pressENTER.

move taskbar windows 11

Entering this command will make your desktop, wallpaper, and taskbar disappear.

There is no need to panic; keep the seatbelt on, and keep going.

Now comes theSECONDpart, where will restart the explore process and bring the taskbar in the new position.

Moving Taskbar to Top in Windows 11

bang out the following command and pressENTER.

you could bring some normalcy back by moving the icons to the left.

1.Right-click anywhere on the empty taskbar space and head to thetaskbar prefs.

Windows 11 taskbar settings

2.Now, expand theTaskbar Behaviorssection by clicking on it.

3.Find theTaskbar Alignmentcolumn and hit the drop-drop menu withcenterset by default.

Select theLeftoption from there to apply.

Windows 11 Taskbar behaviors

Over to You

This is how you move the taskbar in Windows 11 using a simple registry tweak.

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source: www.techworm.net