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Center Taskbar Icons with Windows 11 Settings

Use Windows 11 built-in alignment rather than unsupported TaskbarX features.

Quick answer

Use Windows 11 built-in alignment rather than unsupported TaskbarX features. This walkthrough describes the practical sequence for the original TaskbarX project, rather than promising that every option works on every Windows release.

Steps for this task

  1. Open Settings > Personalization > Taskbar.
  2. Expand Taskbar behaviors.
  3. Choose Center or Left for Taskbar alignment.
  4. Observe the Start button and pinned apps together.

How to confirm the result

Windows 11 changes its native group alignment immediately. For a positioning or animation change, inspect the taskbar before and after opening or closing a normal app window. For a startup or file problem, check the executable location and the Windows Task Scheduler entry.

Compatibility and recovery

Native Windows 11 alignment differs from TaskbarX centering only app icons.

TaskbarX is primarily a Windows 10 utility. If a feature is absent or unsupported, close TaskbarX, remove any unwanted scheduled launch task, and return to the normal Windows taskbar rather than installing undocumented patches.

Questions and answers

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References

Primary references: developer product page, project README, and release history. Use your Windows build number to interpret compatibility claims.