Don't Love Windows 11? These Settings Make It More Like Windows 10

For more on Window 11, here’s how tochange your default search enginein Edge and other browsers.

But you could get close.

Here’s how:

1.Go to prefs and over on the left, choosePersonalization.

2.Scroll down and chooseTaskbar options.

3.Down at the bottom, chooseTaskbar behaviors.

4.To the right of Taskbar alignment, from the drop-down menu, chooseLeft.

That should shift the taskbar and Start menu over to the bottom-left corner of your screen.

Here, you could find controls and notifications for commonly used apps.

1.Tap thenetwork, volume and batteryicon on the right side of the taskbar.

2.At the bottom of the pane, tap thepencil iconand then tap Add.

3.Add items to the panel, including Night light and Keyboard layout.

you could control notifications from apps and other senders by heading toSettings, choosingSystemand then choosingNotifications.

It’s easy to get rid of the button.

In the taskbar, right-click theWidgets buttonon your Taskbar and selectHide from taskbar.

Miss that Windows 10 wallpaper?

If you want to see the Windows 10 wallpaper in your Windows 11 desktop, that’s doable too.

Over in the left-hand pane, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID.

(you might also search with Ctrl+F.)

3.Right-click in the pane to the right and selectNew > Key.

It should be under CLSID.

Right-click in the pane to the right again, selectNew > Key.

Name this new registry key InprocServer32.

5.kick off the (Default) key in InprocServer32 and double-check its value is set to blank.

Microsoft doesn’t let you do that in Windows 11 yet.

When the app is running, right-click its button in the taskbar and choose Pin to taskbar.