How to Change Taskbar Size in Windows 11

How to Change Taskbar Size in Windows 11
Some people wanted to make the taskbar smaller on Windows 11, there is a registry tweak which helps solve this problem. But when Microsoft release the official version, I am sure there will be more features added to Windows 11 to fix these minor Windows 11 problem.
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
create DWORD 32bit value and call it "TaskbarSi"
Set value to 1, 2 or 3
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[@Britec09]

Will you guys be using Windows 11? Drop us a LIKE 👍

[@wouteradriaens7869]

Is there a downloadble ISO on the Microsoft website britec?

[@u-bum]

@@wouteradriaens7869 I don't think so, it got leaked so...

[@patrykwojcik6197]

in five years, when windows 10 loses his support

[@IsidorusHispalensis]

yes, but i hope there is an improvement in text resolution for 4k monitors

[@davehenderson3739]

@@patrykwojcik6197 Yeah me too, in 2025.

[@mkskrakusnh]

New Windows, new problems, new solutions. Circle of fuckin madness.

[@Angelo-sc9of]

jaaja

[@EzDoesntExist]

do u think you gonna have os/software that complete? that would never happened!

[@SnosMeGLOBAL]

@@EzDoesntExist windows 10?

[@goodnight2344]

@@SnosMeGLOBAL bugged af xD

[@basshead.]

@@goodnight2344 Nope. I've used the same installation of Windows 10 Pro since the beginning of 2017 without any problems.

[@XdekHckr]

Imagine having to go to registry just to change taskbar size like I could do it easily in Windows 10 lol

[@amarabdi4752]

I am currently

[@caf-rs9hp]

yeah because its new

[@Shadow__X]

@@caf-rs9hp that's not an excuse because they had the feature before and purposefully REMOVED it

[@zigpgamingchannels7973]

happy for u :(

[@rushildasari7502]

@@caf-rs9hp I have the official version and they still havent added that functionality

[@NeonsStyleHD]

Doesn't work anymore!

[@SuperMax_____0.0_____]

even if not subscribbed you appear when searching things for PC and it makes me happy to see you already have a video on the matter, thanks for all once again

[@jineshshah793]

We are waiting, when windows 11 will launch and will get our hands on it, and here he is dropping some future win11 problem solutions😂😂👍🏻

[@Britec09]

We aim to please.

[@jineshshah793]

@@Britec09 now please do let us know, what all hardware will be required for win11 and also how old hardware will be needed from intel i3 1st gen on desktop/laptops...

[@Codyslx]

@@jineshshah793 The requirements are on the official Microsoft site.

[@jineshshah793]

@@Codyslx yes, i has asked question before knowing of app...thanx

[@wrpg9955]

@@Britec09 hi I did exactly what you did but it didn't work

[@Richie_]

Didn't work for me. Stayed the same size.

[@ProgressiveTruthSeekers]

Yes, same here. Did absolutely nothing.

[@19babang]

Wait for the updats

[@ProgressiveTruthSeekers]

@@19babang Thanks, you're right. It's now working.

[@AshirwadGupta-wh7ih]

Same Same

[@SidorovichJr]

brilliant and simple, thank you!

[@wouteradriaens7869]

you are the best in explaining how we need to do it Brian really thx for the great video's keep up the good work.

[@gordonellissenanuziddah6202]

I'm happy that the launch event is today! 🙂 Keep up the good work! Love all the effort!

[@Britec09]

Thanks! Will do!

[@_Donatello]

Doesn't change the size of the time/date and sound/network with the latest release of Windows 11 as of 10/07

[@senpai4566]

for me too

[@ismail_basaran]

for me too. fuckin' windows

[@Zardy_OG]

Yea it is annoying

[@masterkeaton1000]

Also have this issue, anybody find a solution?

[@_Donatello]

@@masterkeaton1000 don’t think there is a solution yet

[@Garcia1900]

Wow this is great thank you so much for posting this. I was going nuts. Microsoft needs to bring back a lot of features they took back from windows 10 I don't understand why make it more complicated on w11.

[@nostrumrulzz]

Great video man! Loved it! Absolutely understood in the first go. Keep it up..! Thank you for making this video.!

[@joe.157]

Thank you!! This helped me out the taskbar was rlly annoying.

[@LeviSennin]

thnx a lot man helped a lot......i was searching for it everywhere

[@stevey3100]

Love your videos bro Windows 11 already out and you have a fix awesome 🔥👍

[@dildarakhtar999]

brilliant and simple, thank you! I really like it bro keep it up

[@theflipchannel964]

When i do your steps it worked, but i have a problem, the date and hour, sound and wireless icons are out of place.... the date is cutted almost hidden of screen...how can i change that?

[@siddeshshisode3100]

Same problem dude, did you find any solution?

[@71calex]

You using multiple displays with different resolutions? I am and I get what you describe on my main one 4k and the task bar on my second display 1080p is actually bigger now :D The laptop I also tested it on worked fine like in the video.

[@brucexwayne2309]

Same here

[@SympathyRS]

same here

[@PfizerBioNTech5G]

same here!

[@EzDoesntExist]

Worked thanks and I only needed to sign out rather restart the system!

[@ShookD]

Thank you so much for the video!

[@oldrockgeeser9426]

Now I know why there will be a W11, it is to help all the internet channels that live off telling people how to modify W11, how to change it, fix the bugs the crashes, update or don't update it and so on for the next ten years

[@Britec09]

More videos coming on Windows 11 lol

[@Richie016]

A fine tutorial, to customize windows taskbar in win11.

[@Britec09]

Thanks

[@mr.nobody9646]

One update and it's gone. Taskbar is again a giant. Thanks microsoft

[@GustavoOio]

Yeeeaah, same here :// Booted up the PC today, and boom, giant task bar :// any solutions?

[@sjograas]

@@GustavoOio Wondering as well. This is terrible, this giant taskbar is just unused space.

[@welshtony1]

another great tutorial

[@Britec09]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@louf7178]

The icons look like wasted space - oh, it was supposed to be _fresh_ , and _airy_ and _lite_ . No problem, I'll just get a 40 inch monitor ¡

[@InimicalWit]

Thanks very much for this video. It lets me know that the way I like to manipulate my taskbar is gone. I use multiple displays and keep the taskbar in a different location on each one - came looking for how to personalize the taskbar again and all I’m finding is this size option requiring edits in the registry… how bleak and boring. But I gather we who used it that way we’re viewed by the company as a small bunch not worth the (apparently large) effort to include the old and long accustomed (decades, here … decades of OSs… and loving this) option. Now just imagine what people with life-threatening changes feel like when THEY get marginalized.

[@nahuatoton]

Brilliant! Thanks!

[@IbnBattuta2]

This solution is not working anymore. I hope someone has the right solution to this big problem. thanks

[@Taiyunn]

THANK YOU because it was so dang big it covered my art program and I couldn't pick what I wanted and it was so annoying so THANK YOU

[@ImEmix]

Hello I was just messing around with this and you don't have to restart you PC all you have to do is go to task manager and restart the windows explorer processor. works 100% of the time and makes it much faster to get the size you want

[@mikem9536]

I simply logged out of my user account.

[@ImEmix]

@@mikem9536 that is just a slower way and you have to load all programs up again

[@signaller]

yeah

[@ImEmix]

@fabri_ what ?

[@signaller]

@fabri_ wtf lmao

[@XeonPrototype]

my guy THANK YOU, I do like W11 since it's windows 10 with a skin on it, and the 5fps performance improvement just confirms I do like it

[@StanvanDaalen]

when i open thge startmode it only has 2 files.... is yours the same?

[@didiabb7337]

Fantastic Job

[@athousandsuns800]

Thank you so much!!! Love you!!!!

[@kowdlay]

does not work for me

[@yashiu9549]

From what i red, this feature is not possible to do anymore, just like this video shows, and it does not seems that they will let us do it any time soon.

[@simo_ig1]

Thank you man

[@felipesiedschlagyopan4185]

Today the system was released but It seems they didn't put this option yet, so I'm using your tutorial.

[@Stzy404]

Thank you, man!

[@thisisarpitgupta]

Hello brother can you please add video about taskbar icon spacing ?as my icons have a lot of space after a new update in windows 11

[@smashtactix]

just started getting forcefull nudges in the win10 updates to upgrade to win11, so this was a godsend, and yes some things have changed but still have to do this to re size task bar some 2 years later.

[@script8276]

Thank you so much sir Such a good person

[@osamaamir1895]

Useful information ℹ️

[@queenbeecarnica]

Yeah, right. They managed to arrange that this is not working after last 2 features updates. I hate those designers so much I cannot even describe.

[@SamKumar_007]

Thanks a lot man❤️😍🤗

[@xiao_wenz]

Thank you so much!

[@ihtesham_emon]

wow it worked! Thank you. But one problem I'm facing and its that the battery and wifi icon in the far right corner got partially invisible.

[@toreibjo]

This is the most unheard of problem EVER! Imagine all the thousands of people working with Windows, and they're not even able to get THIS right? What?!

[@knightofsg]

Thanks, it worked, hopefully, MS adds this feature. The only problem when I add '0' as value, the first 'icons' being date/time, internet, etc., on the far bottom right, aren't aligned properly, they're a bit downward. So I had to keep the value to '1' for better alignment.

[@knightofsg]

I noticed when you're having a value '1' your taskbar day/time show also the day, while mine doesn't and when you're switching to value '0' , the day/time and internet icon are centred horizontally, but mine keep showing a bit downwards, not perfectly aligned, even after I installed the latest 15 February 2022 update KB5010414.

[@knightofsg]

@@iDR1Sznd Thank you for replying back. We need to hopefully wait for some future updates, maybe.

[@mayanktiwari0_0]

it's not working on 1080p display only works on 4k monitors properly aligned

[@jaimehuerta7869]

@@mayanktiwari0_0 neither 720p

[@chantellbalarbar1641]

Same here. Have you tried 0.5?

[@sleeping_sheep_slayer_9000]

two years and rubbish windows 11 only allows u to change ur windows search bar settings, great video btw mate, new brit brummy subscriber here :-)

[@JoelMogwasa]

It worked like magic, thank you.

[@Britec09]

You're welcome!

[@leandrotasani1390]

THANK YOUU!! ❤️

[@Unownboi]

thanks so much!

[@xavierrodriguez3991]

do you know how we could remove the name of the day where the date is located? it looks strange... there must be somewhere in the registry but I can't find it....

[@rajatbarthwal9858]

Thankyou!!

[@rickbeckett6138]

Legend! Couldn't fully see my date. Can now. Many thanks 👍

[@someidiot4311]

wait, how do you fix that?

[@TheCannibull]

@@someidiot4311 just update to latest dev build of windows, second monitor is still broken though

[@MichaelYISRAEL]

Thank you very much.

[@wansi2659]

You are my heroes. Thanks

[@MmANCZ]

Uff, why make it easy right? But works perfectly! Thaks a lot! 😊

[@luciannegrisan8430]

thanks sooo much bro

[@NightWatch_FunFactory]

Thank you so much

[@stanpickles]

thank you, it helped me👍but but the date on the right didn't fit and it's basically cut off the screen is there a way to fix that?

[@bambisentsho]

Hey I found an application called S"tart11 application" look it up it helps customise start menu without the cut off, search for a tutorial on youtube

[@MisbahUdDin]

Thank you so much. I did it

[@bibf5207]

Thank you very much

[@lucq9525]

you're a life saver

[@BottiniPlay]

This method doesn't work anymore, after some stupid updated they removed this possibility along with the "Small Icons"

[@davehee6]

I'm using two monitors and when I tried this my date and some icons are off the screen. The second monitor has a normal sized bar and seems to be preventing the main screen from aligning ...any ideas?

[@Am94514]

What resolution are you using because mine is 2560x1440 the task bar looks bad and the sound icon on the right is showing just half of it

[@simonshorthouse4938]

Maybe a worthy topic would be the system requirements needed to install Windows 11, The compatibility checker says my machine isn't compatible and this would most likely be because I didn't have safe boot enabled and TPM 2.0 I can't just change that now because it won't boot up then.

[@saidai7430]

It works. But the icons on the right are not resized and look too large. What I can do?

[@harrymalm]

For me, the language, ethernet, sound and date symbols don't change size, making them hide "behind" the screen. Dows anyobdy have a workaround until MS fixes this?

[@jeanclaudethedarklord6205]

same here, so annoying lol

[@AnimexesPiano]

@@jeanclaudethedarklord6205 did you guys find a way around it

[@hvco7873]

Same problem here :(

[@jineshshah793]

Can you create a video, where a software like berlac finds out the issues and missing files in windows and a software to resolve all those problems??? And also a video on .dlls and why are they and how helpful they are.

[@hmsendeavour1366]

Thanx bro u r awsm !!!

[@EightLetter]

I am having troubles because the the right side icons are off screen, is there a way to make it 0.5 instead of 0?

[@dat-e.z3352]

it worked thank you

[@ABHISHEK321_]

Thanks it works

[@Maybe_magic02]

why is Microsft under HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of Software. The microsoft also leads to StartupApproved instead of Advanced

[@fratista]

This is a complete farce. They completely removed a feature that has been working for the last 20 years. It was the first thing i did after a fresh Windows install. The hack never worked because the clock Layout was always broken. Thats why i rolled back to Win 10. If they dont add this to Win 11 or Win 12, i will be moving to MacOS.

[@fauzeruvais]

Thank you

[@rijden-nu]

How can they release an OS to enthusiastic dev users (dev program!) with basic functionality like this lacking that's been in there since at least XP? I wonder how much more basic functionality that everyone takes for granted from windows 7/8/10 will be missing on launch.

[@ok-i-went-viral4497]

THANKS A MILLION

[@HarshaCM]

Right Bottom modules like Date, Mic icon, ENG IN etc are bottom trimmed with this changes

[@rohitkalange7796]

the date in the taskbar gets hidden if y'all follow this... i'd rather suggest to decrease the display size and then increase the font size from settings

[@umarhussain3746]

Thanks bro

[@MrKapucyn19]

That's actually how i came to this video. Because my date/time is just looking wrong now. Somehow in his case it's looking normal, hmm.

[@TylerLynn]

Hi, I had done this and it worked perfectly, but I think my PC updated last night and it no longer works. Could you upload an updated process?

[@vivekjhajhria4550]

thank you

[@jeffmiller8950]

Great video... simple, easy and straight forward explanation/solution! However, one question and that is, do you still use the 32bit option when running a 64 bit system?

[@mouldypotato7661]

yes

[@marcfavell]

I did everything here and it's still the same .. What gives ?

[@realitynaija]

Perfectly work. Thanks so much!

[@Abhishekdailyvlogg]

I have done thank you sir God bless you sir 🤗🤗

[@DimpieDeBruyn]

It's as follow: numbers: 0 for small, 1 for standard, and 2 for the extra-large

[@Britec09]

Told you Windows 11 was coming

[@DimpieDeBruyn]

@@Britec09 I'm happy with the leaked version and not looking back at win10 .... when the final version of 11 comes at the end of the year, I will upgrade all my machines... Only gripe so far is the fact that there isn't an option to "not combine taskbar buttons" ... I like to see ALL my open windows.

[@Britec09]

@@DimpieDeBruyn Still work in progress, I love the new look.

[@harshavardhan.why.]

@@Britec09 hey 0 is too small, 1 is too big. How to set the sweetspot?

[@David-uy4nb]

@@harshavardhan.why. my question too.. I just want the size from windows 10.. it was abit smaller than the medium size in windows 11

[@VelocityFC]

when i do this, the wifi button, time, and volmue things get cut off

[@zantes0]

didnt work

[@XerkoGames]

The smallest one is perfect! Thanks

[@XerkoGames]

Nevermind, the date and time is fked

[@dat-e.z3352]

@@XerkoGames its stll like that? it honestly the only reason why i dont use it

[@Eshkun]

I just installed windows 11 update and i changed taskbar size using your method, size changed but date and time got misaligned please help me

[@_twksd_]

same prob

[@abhishekcreations10]

good editing

[@maikelmetry2935]

what about changing the task buttons size back like win 10?

[@jonanonprinter4446]

been messing about with win 11 for a few weeks now i agree its just win 10 with a new coat i really never expected anything different to be honest

[@Britec09]

Microsoft have always done this. Not sure they have built a new OS in years.

[@masterflitzer]

@@Britec09 yeah every new win nt is just an update for the previous one, i downloaded the win 11 insider preview today and there are some downgrades i cannot open the task manager by right clicking the taskbar anymore to name one example

[@FarranLee]

So many window-server bugs still present in the Win11 version ... I swear it's exactly the same code with a pretty theme over the top

[@timos9]

@@Britec09 well they did now

[@jayeshsharma128]

Thank u sirji

[@kdafashion]

Thank s lot..

[@cannibalcupcake333]

Awesome. My taskbar is smaller but now the date in the right corner is being cut off.

[@hot_fudge]

Did you fix it? I have the same problem

[@cannibalcupcake333]

@@hot_fudge No. I’ve learned to just deal with it unfortunately.

[@anubhavpal5782]

unable to shrink the taskbar by the method mentioned in the video

[@rahuldumu8456]

thanks

[@Noobmaster-yc2pf]

How do you fix the icons in the right corner?

[@quban79]

works.. sort of.. not really.. the bottom half of the toggles/date are cropped so no good.. assume i can just delete the folder once ive reverted back to default ? thanks