Why can't you create App Icons in Windows 11?

[anonymous-user]

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[Your Dad]

Start - All Apps - locate 'Roblox' icon and drag onto desktop, should create a shortcut.

[Brainpox]

anonymous said:

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Probably should ask Microsoft rather than Pistonheads tbh

[xeny]

anonymous said:

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I think MS really want 11 to be driven rather like OS X's dock - you launch apps by having them in the taskbar and then clicking on them.

FWIW right click and add to desktop appears not to be there in 10, I don't have anything earlier handy to test.

[stemll]

xeny said:

I think MS really want 11 to be driven rather like OS X's dock

I have just been given Win 11 at work and been using OSX and Mac OS at home for years and MS have missed it by a country mile. The only "similarity" is that it defaults to putting icons on the taskbar into the middle.

[xeny]

stemll said:

I have just been given Win 11 at work and been using OSX and Mac OS at home for years and MS have missed it by a country mile. The only "similarity" is that it defaults to putting icons on the taskbar into the middle.

That and you can only have one icon per application rather than one icon per window, which I find very irritating. I'm currently migrating people at work 11 and very carefully staying on 10.

[AlexC1981]

xeny said:

That and you can only have one icon per application rather than one icon per window, which I find very irritating. I'm currently migrating people at work 11 and very carefully staying on 10.

I agree, it's like they are more concerned with it looking pretty than allowing for efficient working. I haven't tried it, but you can install an app called StartAllBack that allows you to do this and other customisation.

Microsoft should definitely bring back the "Never Combine Taskbar Buttons" option by default. Much better than the standard setup, especially on my ultrawide screen that has a huge amount of empty taskbar going to waste. I hope they do because I doubt that when my work IT upgrade us to 11 eventually, they will allow us to install StartAllBack. I already lose the option when I have to work through Citrix.

stemll said:

I have just been given Win 11 at work and been using OSX and Mac OS at home for years and MS have missed it by a country mile. The only "similarity" is that it defaults to putting icons on the taskbar into the middle.

How does it work on a Mac? Say if you have multiple spreadsheets open fullscreen and you want to go from one to another?

[xeny]

AlexC1981 said:

How does it work on a Mac? Say if you have multiple spreadsheets open fullscreen and you want to go from one to another?

Fullscreen on a Mac gives you effectively a new virtual desktop screen, so the standard ctrl left/right arrow would work, or (and this is the one I really miss on Windows) there is a separate shortcut (command ~) that rotates purely through the windows open in the current application rather than all open windows.

I'm on a PC at present, so can't easily check, but I don't think the dock gives window management beyond minimised windows appearing in it (as separate icons per window).

[stemll]

xeny said:

Fullscreen on a Mac gives you effectively a new virtual desktop screen, so the standard ctrl left/right arrow would work, or (and this is the one I really miss on Windows) there is a separate shortcut (command ~) that rotates purely through the windows open in the current application rather than all open windows.

I'm on a PC at present, so can't easily check, but I don't think the dock gives window management beyond minimised windows appearing in it (as separate icons per window).

The dock only shows one Numbers icon if you have multiple spreadsheets open then, as above, command ~ switches just between Numbers windows. If you untick "Minimize windows over the icon of the application" in the dock settings then minimised windows appear on the dock rather than "hiding" in the app icon which is closest to Windows "never combine" but only for minimised windows.