- Windows 11 has a useful change for multiple screens in a new preview
- You can access messages and calendar flyout on the secondary screen
- Previously it was not possible even if it is in Windows 10
If you use multiple screens with Windows 11, there is a change in the pipeline with the taskbar that you really want to appreciate.
Windows Central noted that Microsoft has provided the opportunity to access the Notification Center and Calendar Flyout in the taskbar on a secondary screen. This has happened to the latest Preview release of Windows 11 in the DEV channel (Build 26200.5722).
It is currently the case that if you run two screens with Windows 11, you can only access these details on the main display. With the secondary display, the active elements of the Systembakken-in the outermost right side of the taskbar-not work, which means that all you can do is to look at the time and date.
To access the calendar panel (by clicking the date), mouse over to the primary screen to do so (and the same goes for checking messages).
However, with the new Preview -Build, it is possible to click on these parts of the taskbar and access the mentioned panels on the secondary screen.
Analysis: Returning another Windows 10 feature that was ditched
This is another fine tuning for Windows 11 that sounds like a relatively small move, but it will actually be a great convenience for those whose PC setup includes two screens (or maybe more). It may be a niche set with people, given, but it will be quite a blessing for them – the move has already been welcomed with open arms by some (Windows central included).
In fact, you might be wondering why this was not possible in the first place – especially because in Windows 10 you have always been able to access these parts of the taskbar on a secondary screen.
That’s a good question and it’s not the only functionality that fell by the road when Windows 11 arrived. There were quite a few key pieces of the interface and options therein that were mysteriously dropped from Windows 10 in the switch to Windows 11.
They included the possibility of moving the taskbar away from the bottom of the screen to select an obvious example (or to ‘never combine’ apps on the taskbar, though this functionality has since added back).
The reason these decisions were made was apparently down to some of the complexity involved in the changes under the hood with Windows 11 – or at least it was the vague sounds Microsoft made some time ago by means of a rather unsatisfactory explanation.
In any case, Microsoft recognized in the blog post for the new preview building that this change is made to “address your feedback”, so clearly there have been a few complaints about the lack of functionality.
Note, however, that this change is only rolled out in testing for now, so not all Windows insiders will see it (although it is possible to force an activation, as Leaker Phantomofearth explains X).
It will probably be a while before this arrives at the finished version of Windows 11, and the feature seems to be a likely choice for recording in the big Windows 11 25H2 update arriving later this year.
