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You can turn off the combining but you can't turn off the grouping. (unless 8 reverted what vista/7 did)

Also annoying is that your only options are 'combine, without text' and 'don't combine, with text'. Why is windows so fond of using one toggle where there should be multiple toggles?



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Disable the grouping?

Properties, Taskbar buttons, Never combine.


It's not a 'one toggle to turn it off' thing. They've gone to extra effort to make it hard to disable, to the point that you need to do many actions in the right sequence or all your work will be auto-reverted.

That's stacks, and you can turn it off in the settings

You know you can just untick the checkbox that's enabling this feature on the window properties.

Annoying: you can't turn off both. If your project has a workflow where the webui merge should not be used (e.g. using signed merges) there is still no way to achieve that.

I don't see why this couldn't be toggled off with a simple setting.

With Microsoft you can disable it too:

"Fortunately, you can turn this functionality off without much trouble"


Oh yes, I remember immediately googling how to turn this one off. It's a checkbox in settings that's labelled something along the lines of "suggest ways to improve my windows experience"

I hate that too - It can be turned off in the Preferences though.

You can turn it off! You can personalize the space to make it work for you. That's one of our key differentiators. We don't want to force you into a single format.

You've always been able to turn it off with group policy and disabling the reporting service. It still bugs me, on principle, that you can't easily disable it even on the Pro edition.

I hate this feature, I invoke it by accident quite often and I do not use, nor want to use, Microsoft Tasks.

MSFT:Please provide a settings toggle to turn this off (last time I looked that wasn't possible).


You can switch this off in the preferences.

Doesn’t that completely disable them, only without the convenience of a toggle?

I really need to turn off parenthesis matching.

Why is it limit only? Why cannot I turn it off entirely? And why does it take 6 clicks of separation go get to these settings?

For the record: you can turn it off using the group policy editor.

Why do you want to turn it off? Do you use ctrl+click for something else?

Yep, the three clicks it takes to disable that really drives me nuts.
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