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Windows 11's Right Click Context Menu has got to go.
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This is the most terrible, stupid, and annoying thing Microsoft has ever designed into a UI.
They've completely abandoned us power users here, and even normal users.
Get rid of that stupid 'Show more Options' button and give us everything relevant to the element we're right clicking at the start, or give us an option to toggle it off so everyone gets the best of both worlds.
Having to use third party tools to hack up the UI to bring back the Windows 10 context menu is an atrocious bandaid many have been applying to fix this.
What would be even more amazing, which baffles me isn't an easily accessable thing, is the option to EDIT your right click context menu, and to uninstall / disable things that some programs attach to it.
Come on Microsoft.. at this rate, Windows 12 will be the curse of the computing world.
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2025-02-03T10:18:17+00:00 would have been much better NOT to ever include the dumb feature!!
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Anonymous
2025-02-03T17:18:21+00:00 I’m an old programmer who worked in a nuclear weapons design lab 50 years ago. Fortran was the language then.
I am retired and still do computering. My mind-set always asks “What is Microsoft’s mind-set.” when they alter, add, change, or omit functions in updated releases. Some of it makes me just darn curious why/how they change things... some additions are nice, but they never asked me.
Just like the right-click opening window. What was wrong or inconvenient with how it worked in Win 10, that it was omitted in Win 11?
Perhaps it is simply to lessen the amount of executable code.
I am reminded of the old adage, “some things are better left alone.”
The Win 11 interface has sure lengthened my learning curve, moving from Win 10. I’m using the search function in Excel probably 25 times more than I have ever, and that’s just using Excel. My favorite was Office Pro 2003, but I’ve had to move on to 365.
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Anonymous
2025-02-03T17:49:49+00:00 Another old adage: "If it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT!"
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2025-02-04T15:52:06+00:00 I totally agree ..... This fking useless beginner level context menu is a sh*t ..... Nearly no one on earth want this menu .....
Even old people don't understand the copy paste cut icons ......It's just stupid !
And even more stupid, THERE WAS NOT A FKING WAY TO REMOVE THIS THING WITHOUT DEALING WITH REGISTRY ....This menu lasted 1 day for me , until the first time I see it after W11 upgrade I directly searched how to remove this nonsense .....
I Have 7zip, and other context menu items ...
I have a 50" screen + 2 30" side screens, I don't need an useless shortened menu where you need to clic 2 times to find the old menu every time ...
Even worse, the new sh*t context menu don't even work well, if you go on, and want to go in a side menu, 60% of time when you move your mouse the second menu go away and you need to do it again .....
Even a newbie can do this more efficient ....Why Microsoft want to hide everything in the sh*tty metro style ?
even in a simple thing like image browser you hide everything ..... No text, no nothing, just icons and ... 3dot menu all sides ....
This some items don't fit in this f*king windows ? you need to hide them no matter if it's usefull or not ??It's like hiding a car door key hole under a cap that you can only open by pushing 3 dots on the door of the roof of the car, after counting until 9, and wait the full moon lunar phase .... It's stupid ...