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Man. Work moved us to windows 11 and you couldn't ungroup windows on the taskbar... We use RPG / as400 and throughout the day you'll end up with 4-5 windows.. having them all grouped is annoying when I have to hover over a popup to see which window I need.
Googling revealed that win11 wasn't shipped with that functionality and it was only patched into the operating system in late q3 of last year.
So annoying and a huge productivity hit for me.
Guess no one at Microsoft realized people use computers differently and more options is always better than one. Or they intended to have the option and either forgot to include it or it was buggy. Either way it was #2 on my "how do you disable this" list, and I had to deal with it for a while. I get how grouping can be good for some things, but when you want to be able to bounce between various windows and some happen to use the same app, it was a pain.
That's why on my kde desktop at home it has a check box that say "allow these windows to be grouped" and I can check / uncheck as needed.
It works so much better. Imho