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This Little App Partially Fixes the Missing Windows 11 Drag and Drop to Taskbar

 2 years ago
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Though it’s not exactly the best implementation I’ve seen

There’s a lot Microsoft needs to further polish in Windows 11, and without a doubt, the company is fully aware of most problems, especially given all the buzz created on social media after the rollout of the new operating system.

But some of the features missing from Windows 11 don’t make any sense, and the drag and drop to taskbar support is just the living proof in this regard.

Something so basic should totally be there in the world’s number one desktop operating system, and while Microsoft could be working on it right now, there’s no excuse not to include it from the very beginning.

And even more surprising is that it didn’t take more than a few hours for someone in the community to come up with a workaround.

Thank God for the Windows community

This little tool, now available freely for anyone running Windows 11, partially restores the Windows 11 drag and drop to taskbar support, though as you can see in the release notes on GitHub, this idea isn’t necessarily the smoothest. But it goes without saying Microsoft has the resources to polish it and develop a much better implementation, especially since Windows 11 users wouldn’t expect such a feature to be missing in the first place.

As said, the proposed workaround isn’t exactly the best, yet it does its job beautifully.

“The program detects if you're currently pressing the left mouse button and determines which icon on the taskbar you hover the mouse pointer on. If the cursor stays in the same area for X milliseconds - it simulates the Win+Ctrl+Number hotkey (open the desktop and switch to the last active window of the app pinned to the taskbar in the position indicated by the number), in order to restore the intended window. It also supports dropping files to the "Show desktop" button (bottom-right of the screen),” the dev explains.

Whether Microsoft will come with its own solution or not is something that remains to be seen, but for now, the company has remained completely tight-lipped on the whole thing.


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