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If you want to Lock / Unlock your task bar, you simply click the one Checkbox menu item ("Lock the taskbar") and it toggles (just as we expect for a checkbox item).
See it here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/V09Rh.png[^]
Two Checkboxes For One Choice??
However, if you want to hide or display Cortana from your taskbar, there are two checkboxes and you have to select one or the other??? !!! what!?!
You can see the Cortana choices in this snapshot from my taskbar: https://i.stack.imgur.com/X4xt6.png[^]
I was attempting to hide Cortana by clicking (toggling) the "Show Cortana icon" but it didn't do anything. It was annoying. I had to click the _other_ checkbox ("Hidden")!
But now, this one makes me laugh, because M$ basically invented these usages and now they don't follow them.
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I think you are running an older version of Win10 than I: I'm on 1909 18363.592, and I get a single choice: "Show Cortana Button".
I get a "Show" / "Hidden" for "Search" though, which you don't.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I think you are running an older version of Win10
Yeah, this is at work and they seem to keep us a few revs back. So that may be the issue : version 1809 -- 10.0.17763 Build 17763
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It could be that the Hidden is to hide Cortana's typing area, whereas the Show Cortana Icon is just to show or hide its icon in the tray?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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They seem to be mutually exclusive choices...I can only choose one or the other.
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Ok, so poor design indeed 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Exactly. Mutually exclusive choices traditionally meant radio buttons. But somehow at some point in time this got lost.
They did something similar with the Search option. The 3 options I see under Search (I'm on 1909) are Hidden, Show Search Icon and Show Search Box. You select one of the three.
I'm thinking these "new" menus allow for items to be checked, but there's no such thing as radio button support. "Progress".
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or they've decided to make radio buttons look like check boxes?
why not? they've made so many other things ugly and confusing (even the overall UI)
- it's the direction that started at win 8 accelerating.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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lopatir wrote: or they've decided to make radio buttons look like check boxes?
why not? they've made so many other things ugly and confusing (even the overall UI)
Yeah, they really have changed some basic things that were great the way they were.
But, all in the name of NEW... I guess. 
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IIRC, there should be three options: Hide, Show, and Show Icon. You could either show a search box (show) or a smaller button (show icon).
It's changed in later versions, because they've finally split the search option from Cortana. So now there's a "Show Cortana button" which is a single choice, and a "Search" menu with the "hide", "show icon", and "show search box" options.
But you don't expect consistency* from a Microsoft UI, do you? 
* Apart from "the consistency of warm diarrhoea".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: But you don't expect consistency* from a Microsoft UI, do you?
Definitely, my foundational mistake.
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Yes, but you have to like the new Icons. Yes? 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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One gripe is that Microsoft started leaving "..." off of menu items that initiate a dialog.
They used to be fanatics about CUA compliance and "explorability" of the UI.
The Ribbon was the first step in removing explorability of the UI. Now there is a GIANT list of every possible command with no logical grouping that you can "add to custom". The GIANT list only supports single letter matching if you try to type! Hundreds of options start with "S".
Every thing is "Search" driven. You better know what you want and start typing it in to find it for any Windows 10 feature or program.
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englebart wrote: One gripe is that Microsoft started leaving "..." off of menu items that initiate a dialog.
I agree and great points all thru your post.
Everything in UI seems just to make it NEW without real plan or design.
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But I saw it for the first time just now.
How much space will be available in the European Union after Brexit?
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1 GB 
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Sander Rossel wrote: European Union
If it's UNION ALL then surely, 1 GB won't be enough.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Brexit
You mean Brexit 2.0. Brexit happened over 200 years ago. 
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Brexit happened over 200 years ago.
It was the Americans who declared their independence from the Britain, not the other way round. If Britain's leaving the EU is called Brexit, then America's declaration of independence should be called Amexit, or some such. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: It was the Americans
Who were Brits that had Brexited from Britain.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: should be called Amexit, or some such
Perhaps a colonectomy?
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If anything, a multiple colectomy.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Shouldn't that be that 1GB in EU land will be freed up?
Of course, we'll have to defragment afterward.
Nice one, Sander.
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What will it mean for the Union Jack?
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Delay advantage near static fuse (13)
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