Let's face it; Windows 11 might look pretty sleek, but it's regressed in many ways from prior versions. One such being the Taskbar. It's restrictive, loaded with stuff you're probably turning off ...
I have a Dell Dimension with Windows XP Home (fresh install, I've reformatted millions of times for things such as linux, and that doesn't fix the problem, so I know it's not an installaion-specific ...