Windows 11 taskbar question

[PP Mguire]

The problem with doing that is I may need to see stuff that is on the main display such as the taskbar. Plus I don't want to have to minimise the game just to access an icon on my main desktop.

The only thing not on your secondary taskbar is the clock and that can be fixed by turning taskbar on for all displays. Desktop icons you can move all from your main monitor to your secondary monitor. Pretty easy things to get around there.

 

[ikonix360]

It could be fixed that way, however I only want the taskbar on the right monitor.

Suppose I'll just have to accept that there's no reasonable solution to my problem and just keep moving the game window over.

Now I can understand older games opening on the main monitor only given multiple displays weren't often used then, however games like Fortnite I'd expect to be able to select the monitor given multiple monitors is pretty much the norm now and not everyone sets the main monitor as the middle one.

 

[PP Mguire]

It could be fixed that way, however I only want the taskbar on the right monitor.

Not to be rude but your taskbar is technically on all monitors at the same time in duplicate and expanded mode unless you hide one or the other anyways. The only real difference is where the clock and/or task icons are which can be toggled on or off. If you're hiding the task bar on the other non-main monitors you are 75% of the way to what you want anyways. You simply tell Windows in the taskbar settings specifically which monitor you want to show tasks on and done then hide the taskbar on the other monitors. This can be done in Windows 11 24H2. These are all fairly simply things that doing a little bit of looking in the settings or some Google can answer to get what you want.

On the flip side, developers have been so lazy the past 5 years relying on upscaling tech to push out garbage unoptimized games, they won't ever take a minute to put out a niche thing when the mass majority of folks use their center monitor as their main monitor. It's so bad right now that Silent Hill 2 Remake doesn't even have hardware RT support because the devs didn't want to check the specific box before compiling. I kid you not.

 

[ikonix360]

I tried one program, but it also reverted to an older style start menu which I don't want and I didn't see an option to move the taskbar either.