Can Windows 11 display multiple rows in the taskbar? How?

The crippling of the taskbar, something that users have honed and elevated to achieve speed, efficiency and control over their desktops... is a completely shortsighted, myopic, idiotic step backwards for windows11 and any productivity, efficiency and utility that users have come to enjoy and expect from supposed "world class" software.

Whatever team approved this "feature" and whatever managers approved and agreed with it should all be fired without exception.

Hobbling the taskbar is almost as worthless as adding kerning (spaces) above and below any listed files in windows explorer or any other presented list. Apparently MS thinks we all cannot read, and need to scroll more to exercise our fingers.

Microsoft's standard approach to making things look less complex than they really are is to hide the complexity under additional layers of menus, dialogs, etc., often with opaque organization and nomenclature. They do it all the time. IMO, this is yet another example of the trend -- make it impossible to create "complicated" (and, admittedly, disorganized) collections of active windows in the taskbar by subordinating them to yet another enforced layer or bogus organization. Thing is, it's more awkward than what it replaced. It should be a selectable option, not a one-size-fits-hardly-anyone force job.

I'd love to know what the thinking behind this is. Is there a substitute mechanism we're supposed to use? An actually paradigm shift that it represents? Absent one of those, I'm forced to conclude that whoever thought this up is simply an idiot. Whoever approved it, even more so. (It's impossible to believe that there was any input to the decision from actual focus groups.)

Really need a solution for this. The Windows 11 taskbar is quite buggy and feature-poor compared to Windows 10 and prior versions. Definitely a big productivity hit, and just frustrating overall.

I tried the registry hack in Windows 11 Home 24H2 build 26100.6584, it cannot work.

Hope Microsoft can bring back this useful feature in windows 11 ( Looks like missing multiple rows taskbar is a a regression from windows 10 ).

I have the same question and did follow your guide. Windows 24H2 build 26100.3476. At least in my case, the registry hack doesn't have any (visible) effect.