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By default, the buttons for opened applications on the taskbar look like this:

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However, an odd thing happened. I have a laptop with a 4k screen. For work, I plug it into a dock which connects to two 1080p screens. If the laptop was on prior to plugging it into the dock, the buttons on the 1080p screens look much longer (see below) - showing the entire title of the window. If I reboot with the dock plugged in, the buttons revert to their default state.

I really like the longer taskbar buttons. Is there anyway to make it a default?

P.S. Currently to achieve this, I take the laptop off the dock, reboot, wait for Windows to come up and then reconnect to the dock. Kind of annoying.

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  • By default, the taskbar are only icons, not text. But what you want is a registry setting. You can set the maximum length for a button. I Just don't know what the regkey is so this is a comment, not an answer. I don't have time to look it up right now, but if you google for it, you will find it.
    – LPChip
    Commented Sep 17, 2020 at 17:09

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You could try the following steps:

  1. Press Win+R to open Run window and insert regedit.exe to open Registry Editor

  2. Go to the following Registry key.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

  1. On the right, modify or create a new string (REG_SZ) value MinWidth. Change its value data from the default 38 to a greater value. Valid range is from 38 to 500.

  2. Reboot your machine and the width of taskbar button will become longer

  3. Attaching my test result for your reference

Registry Key info

Results

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How to Change the Width of the Taskbar buttons

Start > Settings > System on the left panel, click Display then in the right section, under Scale and layout change the scaling to fit your needs.

Lets me know if this helps

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