Somewhat related:

A long time ago, I used "7+ Taskbar Tweaker" that added a lot of nice things to Windows 7, like reordering the tasks in the taskbar. Now I'm remembering that the best feature was to ungroup the windows of the same task, that was super nice to edit two documents in Word

It used a lot of magic, probably overwriting dll calls in the kernel of Windows. It looks like it only partially support Windows 11 https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

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user_7832 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> A long time ago, I used "7+ Taskbar Tweaker"…

Way to make me feel old! I'm still using it!

> …to Windows 7

Aah that's better.

The tool still works on 10 btw, and offers some options not available otherwise - eg properly narrow taskbar when vertical (about small icon width wide).

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layer8 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A replacement for the ungrouping with WindHawk is https://windhawk.net/mods/taskbar-grouping. There may be other mods that also cover that.

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krige an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Wasn't that taskbar/windows thing just a toggle in official taskbar settings?

	▲	layer8 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		See https://superuser.com/questions/559782/windows-7-taskbar-nev.... There is a difference between grouping and combining, and 7TT provided many more options.
	▲	kubik369 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I recall that the official setting was everything grouped or everything ungrouped. What GP is referring to is probably the ability to break out a single window from a group.