How to change the size of taskbar in windows 11

The official release of windows 11 has happened because the new operating system is solely focused on design most windows apps have undergone significant changes furthermore the new operating system has been stripped of some functions that might be extremely irritating to some users one of these changes is the elimination of the option to change the size of your system's taskbar however as we will demonstrate in this video there is a remedy for the problem the taskbar settings page allowed users to change the size of their taskbar in prior versions of windows but fear not with a tiny hack you can still modify the size using this method you can manually edit the windows registry and create a new key that adjusts the size having said that the technique is fairly simple and not at all difficult so you can follow our directions exactly however we recommend making a backup of your windows registry because it is a very powerful tool and any erroneous modifications can cause your operating system to stop working completely as a result make a registry backup to avoid such situations in the stages we'll take i'll teach you how to achieve just that so here's how you accomplish it to begin click on the start menu on the search box right regedit click on registry editor click yes the windows registry window will pop up as a result of this copy the specified path and paste it in the address bar to travel to the following location in the windows registry the video's description can be used to copy the path you can simply go to the address manually but this is the most convenient option allow us to manually open the path when you're there right click and select new from the menu on the right hand side select word 32-bit value from the drop-down menu a new key will be generated as a result of this action rename the key to task rc you can do that by right-clicking the new key and select from the drop-down menu rename double-click the newly formed key after you've done so change the value to whatever you like there are three possible values two big one medium and zero small if you want a larger taskbar for example type 2 then when you're ready press ok close the windows registry window and restart your computer the adjustments will take effect as soon as your computer boots up and the taskbar size will be adjusted allow me to demonstrate another taskbar size variation i'll accomplish the same thing as you but in a shorter amount of time to make the taskbar smaller i'll set it to zero i'm going to reboot the computer right now it's here the new taskbar please show your gratitude by liking the video if you remain till the end also subscribe to our channel for more tech videos and leave a comment below good luck with your day you the official release of windows 11 has happened because the new operating system is solely focused on design most windows apps have undergone significant changes furthermore the new operating system has been stripped of some functions that might be extremely irritating to some users one of these changes is the elimination of the option to change the size of your system's taskbar however as we will demonstrate in this video there is a remedy for the problem the taskbar settings page allowed users to change the size of their taskbar in prior versions of windows but fear not with a tiny hack you can still modify the size using this method you can manually edit the windows registry and create a new key that adjusts the size having said that the technique is fairly simple and not at all difficult so you can follow our directions exactly however we recommend making a backup of your windows registry because it is a very powerful tool and any erroneous modifications can cause your operating system to stop working completely as a result make a registry backup to avoid such situations in the stages we'll take i'll teach you how to achieve just that so here's how you accomplish it to begin click on the start menu on the search box right regedit click on registry editor click yes the windows registry window will pop up as a result of this copy the specified path and paste it in the address bar to travel to the following location in the windows registry the video's description can be used to copy the path you can simply go to the address manually but this is the most convenient option allow us to manually open the path when you're there right click and select new from the menu on the right hand side select word 32-bit value from the drop-down menu a new key will be generated as a result of this action rename the key to task rc you can do that by right-clicking the new key and select from the drop-down menu rename double-click the newly formed key after you've done so change the value to whatever you like there are three possible values two big one medium and zero small if you want a larger taskbar for example type 2 then when you're ready press ok close the windows registry window and restart your computer the adjustments will take effect as soon as your computer boots up and the taskbar size will be adjusted allow me to demonstrate another taskbar size variation i'll accomplish the same thing as you but in a shorter amount of time to make the taskbar smaller i'll set it to zero i'm going to reboot the computer right now it's here the new taskbar.