Add Draggable, All-in-One Multirow Taskbar & Systray for Windows 11

[andkondev]

Summary

Adds a Windows 11 taskbar mod that combines draggable multirow taskbar resizing, multirow taskbar buttons, notification-area icon wrapping, and Win10-style taskbar behavior in one integrated mod.

Notes

• The submitted mod is GPL-3.0.
• The mod details include attribution to m417z and the Windhawk project for the original taskbar mods this work builds on.
• Known limitation documented in the details: the full Windows Search box can make the Search flyout overlap the taskbar on multirow taskbars. Search icon and icon-and-label modes are recommended for multirow use.

Validation

• Compiled the raw public .wh.cpp file in Windhawk.
• Verified the submitted file is a single Windhawk mod source file with no WindhawkModSettings block and no nested .wh.cpp includes.
• Tested local install/resizing behavior on Windows 11, including private row persistence without creating a public Windhawk Settings key.

Public source repo: https://github.com/andkondev/draggable-multirow-taskbar-systray-windows-11

Changelog

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[Anixx]

For me, the taskbar does not start with this mod. Win11 23H2.

[andkondev]

For me, the taskbar does not start with this mod. Win11 23H2.

Thanks for including the version number though I don't have access to that version. A quick search: "Windows 11 version 23H2 (Home and Pro editions) reached its official end of support on November 11, 2025, and no longer receives security updates."

I developed and tested this on Windows 11 25H2, on which it works without a restart etc.

Do you see any error messages? Does it break anything?

[Anixx]

If you mean that you do not support unsupported Windows versions, I am on build 10.0.22631.7219, which was reltased June 9, 2026.

The taskbar does not appear, while Explorer.exe is running. Once I disable the mod, the taskbar appears.

[m417z]

Thanks for the submission. I'm reluctant to merge such mod bundles. See my comment here: #4390 (comment).

[andkondev]

If you mean that you do not support unsupported Windows versions, I am on build 10.0.22631.7219, which was reltased June 9, 2026.

It's an older branch so that may be the issue. Sorry!

[andkondev]

Thanks for the submission. I'm reluctant to merge such mod bundles. See my comment here: #4390 (comment).

Fair enough, I get the modularity issue here. Unfortunately, I couldn't combine all the features that I wanted from Windows 10 taskbar (including dragging the taskbar, systray and app rows sync at once, no-wrap for start/search/taskview) without a single unified mod. This does everything I want all at once conveniently (that Microsoft shouldn't have taken out).

Maybe consider a bundled category for standalone combined mods in the future?

[m417z]

Maybe consider a bundled category for standalone combined mods in the future?

Short term, I plan on making it easier to export and import combinations of mods and their settings. So you could, for example, share a combination of mods A, B, C with settings X, Y, Z.