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The location of the Windows 11 taskbar cannot be set through any UI options. They do not officially support changing the location of the taskbar according to available documentation. The upgrade message inside Windows 10 explicitly calls out this deficiency along with other before continuing. There are registry hacks that change the location, but this is unsupported.

Docs: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-use-the-t...

In other words, it seems they removed the UI to change it but left the underlying code alone, presumably because it's an easier change and they want to judge how much people would complain first (before, possibly, later re-enabling the UI to do it and praising themselves for how much better they've made things.)

>registry hacks that change the location, but this is unsupported.

I am imagining the dire warning next to this prompt. Don't rewire the position of the taskbar or your computer just might catch a virus.

I just looked into this like...last week, and couldn't find anything, and if it's possible without third-party add-ons, I'd be extremely surprised. But I won't consider that to be the case until I see a link with instructions that work.

Do you have a link? It seems it still requires a 3rd party app.

This is false.