Microsoft has made a lot of changes and improvements in the Windows 11 Taskbar, one of the main noticeable changes is the centered alignment. The new Windows 11 Taskbar is aligned centered, and Microsoft also gives us the option to change the alignment. Once you change the alignment to center all the taskbar icons will move to the center. In Windows 10 you can’t change the alignment of the taskbar icons. The Windows 11 taskbar is six pixels taller than the Windows 10, and it includes new start buttons, Task view, Widgets, and Chat icon. Windows 11 Taskbar comes with new animation styles for launching, minimizing, maximizing, and installing applications. And it has improved system tray, Notification area, and Modified system tray icons. Overall Microsoft Completely remodified Windows 11 Taskbar, but still, most of the users expecting more appearance modifications in Windows 11 from Microsoft. If you are one of them and want to change the appearance of the Taskbar in Windows 11, then this article will guide you to change the Windows 11 Taskbar into mac OS like dock. Get macOS-like dock in Windows 11 by following this articles steps.
Get macOS-like dock in Windows 11 Taskbar:
So you can get macOS like dock in Windows 11 Taskbar by using the third-party tool called TaskbarXI. TaskbarXI is an application that modifies the Windows 11 Taskbar into mac OS like dock. You can download the TaskbarXI from the GitHub page.
TaskbarXI is still in the early stages of development, it is a very simple tool, there’s not even a graphical interface yet. The following features are currently available in TaskbarXI.
- Turn the Windows 11 Taskbar into a dock.
- Turn the tray/clock into a dock.
- Support multiple monitors.
- Support sepperate DPI scaling.
- Switch back to normal on maximized window.
- Support left and centered taskbar.
- Tray icon to exit TaskbarXI and revert to the default taskbar.
Click on the link and download the TaskbarXI in different formats, download the exe file.
Double click on the exe file and enable the TaskbarXI, it will shutdown the current Windows 11 Taskbar and automatically enable the dock, If not just open the Task Manager and restart the file explorer.
Now you can see the TaskbarXI dock, by default the alignment is centered, you can change the alignment using the Personalization options.
If you want to close the TaskbarXI dock, just click on the system tray icon located at the bottom right corner. Click on the up arrow mark and click on the TaskbarXI icon and just choose Yes to exit the TaskbarXI.
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