Moderated A question re the windows 11 taskbar
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Kimber Gardner
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone who offered advice re my upgrade to windows 11. My Lenovo has been successfully updated and I'm finding windows 11 fairly familiar. I do have one question. Under windows 10 I made extensive use of the taskbar, pressing windows key + T followed by the first letter of whatever app I wanted to invoke. Now under windows 11 I find that first letter navigation isn't working within the taskbar. I notice too that the apps pinned there are spoken as buttons by jaws and I wonder if this is why the first letter navigation doesn't work. Is there some way to recover this capability? Or if not, can you suggest another easy way to access the apps I use most? Thanks for any ideas. Kim -- Kimberly |
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I can't speak to the first letter nav part, but under both Windows 10 and 11 you can use WinKey + {digit} for the first 10 applications pinned to the taskbar. In my case, after the Windows/Start button and search button (I hide the box and just leave the button), which are not counted, I have Calculator, File Explorer, Notepad, Excel, Word, Firefox, Vivaldi, and Edge Dev pinned to the taskbar,
Hitting WinKey + 1 invokes Calculator, 2 invokes File Explorer, 3 invokes Excel, etc. 0 represents the tenth pinned item, if you have that many. Once you arrange your pinned items in the order you prefer them, and have that order in mind, you can use the above technique reliably. Also see this YouTube tutorial: Pin and Arrange Apps on the Taskbar in Windows 11 with JAWS -- Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13) I recoil from any definition of the relationship between artist and audience that is predicated on the audience claiming a sense of betrayal over who someone is or isn’t outside of the context in which they’re performing. What we know about an artist’s personal identity can be interesting and even illuminating; what we are entitled to know is … nothing, basically. ~ Mark Harris, Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime?, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023 |
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Jason White
On 24/3/23 09:48, Brian Vogel via groups.io wrote:
I can't speak to the first letter nav part, but under both Windows 10 and 11 you can use WinKey + {digit} for the first 10 applications pinned to the taskbar.Under Windows 11 (but not Windows 10) you can also use Alt-Shift-Left/Right-Arrow to move the items in the taskbar, so that the ten numbered positions correspond to the applications you want, in the order that makes the most sense to you. Obviously, you should also remove items that you don't want to access quickly by number, or at least move them to the end of the taskbar. |
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Kimber Gardner
Brian,
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Thanks for the YouTube link. That was super helpful. They've certainly made easier to move apps around on the taskbar. Kim On 3/24/23, Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:
I can't speak to the first letter nav part, but under both Windows 10 and 11 --
Kimberly |
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David Griffith
I made similar complaints about the loss of first letter navigation on the Task Bar when moving to Windows 11, and this, alongside the more recent reconfiguration of File Explorer are the unnecessary breaking by Microsoft of ease of use for keyboard users of their windows interface. Luckily there are now registry tweaks to regain the lost Documents./ Downloads/Music etc /folders section of File Explorer of the this PC interface but I know of no solution to the loss of first letter navigation on the taskbar. It does annoy me when Microsoft fix what does not need to be fixed and breaks it, rather than focusing on what obviously does need fixing. For example retaining amended sort views in previously mention systems folders like Downloads etc.
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From: Kimber Gardner
Sent: 24 March 2023 13:24 To: main Subject: A question re the windows 11 taskbar
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone who offered advice re my upgrade to windows 11. My Lenovo has been successfully updated and I'm finding windows 11 fairly familiar.
I do have one question. Under windows 10 I made extensive use of the taskbar, pressing windows key + T followed by the first letter of whatever app I wanted to invoke. Now under windows 11 I find that first letter navigation isn't working within the taskbar. I notice too that the apps pinned there are spoken as buttons by jaws and I wonder if this is why the first letter navigation doesn't work. Is there some way to recover this capability? Or if not, can you suggest another easy way to access the apps I use most?
Thanks for any ideas.
Kim
-- Kimberly
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