Instructions: Enable the taskbar overflow function in Windows 11 Build 22621.317+ (RP), Build 22622.440+ (Beta) and Build 25163+ (Dev)

Windows 11 Insider Build 25163, released last week on the Dev channel, has a new feature called Taskbar Overflow, which can be translated as “taskbar overflow.” This feature allows the operating system to move application icons in the taskbar to a separate menu if the taskbar runs out of free space for icons.

A week later, the innovation reached the insider builds of Windows 11 version 22H2 on the Release Preview and Beta channels. So, in build 22621.317 (RP), this feature is disabled by default and was not mentioned in the changelog, while in build 22622.440 (Beta), A / B testing is carried out, which is why the innovation is not available to all users.

If you’re not featured or want to enable a feature in a build on the Release Preview channel, you can use the ViVeTool utility to force the feature to be enabled. You will find instructions below.

Instruction

1. Download the ViVeTool utility by this link. This is a new version of ViveTool 0.3.1, the details of which we described in our material.
2. Unpack the downloaded archive to any place on your computer (for example, you can create a ViVeTool folder in the root of drive C and place the files there).
3. Open a command prompt as an administrator (for example, by typing CMD in the search and selecting the appropriate item).
4. In the command line, navigate to the folder with ViVeTool using the command cd /d , then press Enter. For example: cd /d "C:\ViVeTool"
5. Type the commands from the list below in sequence, pressing Enter after each one.
   • vivetool /enable /id:35620393 /store:both
   • vivetool /enable /id:35620394 /store:both
6. Make sure that the command line shows the message “Successfully set feature configuration”
7. It is not necessary to restart the computer, since we used the parameter /store:both