Microsoft plans to cut off Win11 ‘system tray icon drag-and-drop sorting’ feature

The current number of Windows 11 users has been considerable, but because Win11 has many new design features that are different from the previous generation, such as the limitation of the taskbar and the lack of other small functions, a large number of users complain and criticize.

Moreover, Win11 does not currently support the taskbar drag and drop function, and temporarily cannot drag and drop files onto the application icon on the taskbar to open some files, but Microsoft also said that they are working hard to develop this function, and confirmed that it will be Taskbar drag and drop functionality will be restored in the Sun Valley 2 (22H2) release.

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Windows latest found that while the taskbar drag-and-drop feature has been restored, it turns out that Microsoft is now preparing to remove another useful taskbar feature designed to optimize the tablet operating experience.

Microsoft recently started bringing a beta feature in Build 22572, optimized for tablets, such as a taskbar that automatically adapts to screen rotation. It will provide two states: contracted and expanded.

Furthermore, Microsoft’s plan is to minimize clutter (temporarily remove certain features from the taskbar) when the system detects your device is a “tablet”, so the taskbar is touch-friendly.

However, now there is a problem – Microsoft has also removed the small taskbar functions of the desktop platform while optimizing the operation logic of the tablet. For example, you can no longer arrange or move those background icons in the system tray by dragging and dropping icons.

As we all know, the overflow icon of the system tray will be presented as a pop-up window with a “^” icon on the taskbar, which contains various application systems running in the background, which reduces the visual clutter of the taskbar to a certain extent. , and helps users manage background programs more easily.

At present, although there is no change in the system tray itself, Microsoft no longer supports dragging icons to arrange icons in the system tray or taskbar. Users initially thought it was a bug, but an updated version suggests it was an intentional change by Microsoft designers to help tablet users reduce accidental touches.

We found in our tests that Win11 has been unable to select and move icons in the system tray, but you can still use the Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > System Tray section to manage whether these icons are hidden in “^”, it is expected that this is not required The design changes will be released together with 22H2, and a high probability has been finalized at present.

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