Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

That's an interesting thought.
I have dial monitors on the desktop and the task bar is on the bottom of both monitors.
Is your task bar on the side of both monitors?

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

I place my task bar on the right side, so my left monitor task bar is between the two monitors. For me, it’s so much better that way.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

So simple to fix: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1368787/how-to-move-the-windows-11-taskbar-to-the-left-or

Just Googled “how to move taskbar to the side in Windows 11” - first entry that came up. Now you can move to 11 if you wish

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

Thank you very much for doing this. This appears to be a complex fix requiring messing with the registry. Every time I embark on something that requires a registry edit, it takes me way too much time fixing what it breaks. Maybe win 12 will allow it.

I love outlook. My calendar for the past 20 years is in it. Every detail of my existence. Where I’ve been.! Flights, restaurants, hotels, cities etc. there is a new tab at the top of the program that says, try new outlook. Of course, I switched it on. It deleted, not archived, everything older than 2 years. It took me weeks to correct that and restore my calendars and I would not have been able to do that if I did not have old computers with old calendars that I did not turn on to sync with my new calendars. That was a real PITA!

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Two things:
if you edit the registry, Windows automatically makes a backup copy (registry.bak) or you can make your own copy prior to editing. This is not hard.

Regarding your Outlook pain. Your old .PST file which should still be there can be imported into your new Outlook to restore everything. To find the file, load a copy of Search Everything and search for “.pst”. There will be your old one, which is larger and your new one and possibly others. Pick the largest one, then go to Outlook, choose File, then import then .PST files and then go to the location you just found and import. When asked, don’t allow duplicates. It will take awhile, but everything will be back.

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

Yes. My .pst file did not have my calendars in it. Nor did my .ost. And to make matter worse, it synced all of my other installations on my other computers deleting everything older than 2 years. I fortunately had an old computer that I had not turned on for a couple of years, and it was all there. I turned off WiFi, exported specific date ranges from each calendar and imported them into my live version. It all came back.

As for Win 11. I think I will wait to see if Win 12 solves the problem.

Thank you for your suggestions. I do appreciate your knowledge and willingness to share.

xt2 Loc: British Columbia, Canada

11works well for us (corporately) and includes regular security upgrades to keep us current.