

This is a tool that brings the old functionality back, along with the old taskbar aesthetic present on Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7 (your choice).

Here’s a list of methods that you can use to get around the fact that Microsoft dropped the taskbar drag and drop functionality o on Windows 11: “Currently, dragging a file onto an app in the taskbar to open it in that app is not supported in Windows 11, but we appreciate all your feedback, and we’ll continue to use it to help guide the future of features like this.”Īlthough this comment is pretty clear, it also gives us hope that Microsoft might decide to add this functionality in the future.īut until that day arrives, there are a few workarounds that you can use to revive that taskbar drag and drop feature. Here’s an official response from a Microsoft engineer in regards to this: Windows 11 currently doesn’t come with support for the taskbar drag and drop feature (for now). Drag and Drop doesn’t work on Windows 11Ĭontrary to what most people believe, this is not a bug or an issue that Microsoft is working to resolve. Most features that Microsoft scrapped for Windows 11 won’t be missed by users, but there is one that I miss dearly – the ability to drag a file onto an app in the taskbar menu to open it.

For all the new features that arrived along with Windows 11, there’s an entire changelog of deprecated features that Microsoft decided to let go of.
