New tool suggestion: custom toolbars for windows taskbar like windows 10 had

[rjk]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

In Windows 11 you can't add custom toolbars like we could in Windows 10 (like this https://www.thetraininglady.com/custom-toolbar/). This functionality could be a new PowerToy feature.

See feature request in windows here https://aka.ms/AAd4ckc More discussion here https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/bring-back-toolbars-in-windows-11-taskbar/64010a24-482b-4953-bcd4-2a4dd5cf5da9?auth=1

Scenario when this would be used?

Many people found Windows 10 toolbars improved productivity for a whole range of use cases.

For me, I used them to add categorised shortcuts, e.g. I'd have an RDP folder with .rdp files for all the servers I need to connect to, another for a set of apps that I'd use occasionally, another for a set of files that I'd access occasionally, etc. This allowed an efficient way to store dozens or hundreds of links/files categorised into folders that I could easily access. Yes there are other ways of achieving this, but for me having them available as menus & submenus off the taskbar is a great UX.

Supporting information

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[dickinsonk9]

This feature would be lovely to have. I have multiple applications that could all be paired down into folders, such as game applications, all of the MS items I use frequently or even all the chats.

[Aaron-Junker]

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[ghost]

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