How to configure the 'Never' 'Combine taskbar buttons' setting in Windows 11?

The 'Never' 'Combine taskbar buttons' setting disappeared in #Windows11

1. The taskbar icons are grouped. I find it very annoying and unproductive when have many maximized windows! The Never Combine taskbar buttons setting disappeared in Windows 11.
   

2. Also, before Windows 11, when I dragged an icon from Explorer and hold a few seconds over a taskbar icon, the app was restored, brought to focus so I can drop the file on the app area. On Windows 11 this is not happening.

I tried to change the Registry Setting:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"TaskbarGlomLevel"=dword:00000002

But it is not working.

I also tried this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell\Update\Packages]
"UndockingDisabled"=dword:00000001

This makes the Task Bar work as expected, but the Start Menu does not open.

How to change this?

See:
Windows Feedback Hub
Tech Community

The ability to "Never combine taskbar buttons" has been removed in Windows 11

Windows 11 combines taskbar icons

Does Windows 11 have the ‘Never combine’ taskbar icons feature? Sadly no, Windows 11 no longer has the ‘Never Combine’ option when customizing your taskbar. This feature was removed in favor of Windows 11’s new minimalistic look which is enhanced by icon grouping. Disabling group icons might be useful to you but it is detrimental to the overall material design adopted by Microsoft for Windows 11. Hence, the ‘Never Combine’ feature has now been removed from taskbar customization in Windows 11.

There is a registry hack farther down the article but they do not and I do not recommend it.

I check both my Windows Insider machine and my Windows Production machine.

ExplorerPatcher should also be able to fix this:

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

From the readme:

Feature summary

• Choose between Windows 11 or Windows 10 taskbar (with labels support, small icons and lots of customization).
• Disable Windows 11 context menu and command bar in File Explorer and more.
• Open Start to All apps by default, choose number of frequent apps to show, display on active monitor and more.
• Choose between the Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows NT Alt-Tab window switcher with customization.
• Lots of quality of life improvements for the shell, like:
  • Skin tray menus to match Windows style, make them behave like flyouts and center them relative to the icon.
  • Choose action when left and/or right clicking the network icon.
  • Revert to the Windows 7 search box in File Explorer, or disable Windows Search altogether.
  • Disable immersive menus and use mitigations that help you run the real classic theme without glitches.
  • Learn more about all the functionality offered by this program starting with this article in the wiki, here.