The movement Taskbar in Windows 11 has been redesigned and, unlike the taskbar in previous versions of Windows, it is now always at the bottom of the screen. Although you can move taskbar icons left or center in Windows 11, you cannot move the taskbar up the bottom window. To relocate the taskbar to the top of the screen, there is a Windows registry modification you can make.
The taskbar is a bar of icons that can be moved and hidden. It is located at the edge of the graphical user interface (GUI) desktop and acts as both an application launcher and a container for icons representing currently running programs. The taskbar was first introduced by Microsoft in Windows 95, and other operating systems have since incorporated it. We have mentioned the steps below to move the taskbar to the top in Windows 11.
Steps to Move Taskbar to Top in Windows 11
“HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerStuckRects3.”
Open the Settings key to Editing by double-clicking it???????? Change the fifth value on the second line from “03″ to “01???????? You can do this by deleting the 03 and then typing 01. Click Ok???????? If you are using multiple monitors and want the taskbars on those screens to be on top as well, change the same values to 01 for all registry keys in “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMMStuckRects3 folder. If you don’t have multiple monitors, this folder won’t exist.”
Close Regedit. Start the command prompt in administrative mode. You can do this by searching for “cmd” by right-clicking the top result and selecting “Run as administrator???????? Click Yea if asked to confirm. Stop and restart the explorer.exe process by typing taskkill /f /im explorer.exe and pressing Enter followed by start explorer.exe.
Final Words
That’s it with our article on how to move the taskbar up in Windows 11. At the bottom of the screen, an operating system component called the taskbar can be found. It lets you search for and open apps using Start and the Start menu, as well as preview any open programs. The Notification Area, located on the right side of the taskbar, allows you to view the date and time of background processes.