Windows 11 File Explorer Right-click Menu was changed to include icons

This **** pisses me off

I seem to have initiated this topic.

I'm not sure how far you have got on resolving issues with right-mouse click in Explorer, but Microsoft have made it possibly for Windows 11 users to have the old response to a right mouse click. You can do that by following this link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restore-old-right-click-context-menu-in-windows-11/a62e797c-eaf3-411b-aeec-e460e6e5a82a

and then scrolling down to the section headed Restore the old Context Menu in Windows 11.

I see that you are aged 82. I'm 85! I very much support your observation "I do NOT need to learn a new way to do something that I've been doing for about 30 years". There's a pretty good chance that the software engineer who designed the change wasn't even alive 30 years ago.

Yes in this case a picture is not worth a thousand words. I imagine Microsoft programmers are struggling to find relevance in order to keep their jobs.

Yeah. The more options click is where everything is for me as well specifically because my right click is so out of control. I use those functions more than the others so it's a bit of a hassle. As I said previously, I like the location much better. I haven't noticed them jumping around on my installation but perhaps that's fixed in the next release because I'm running developer's edition fast-track. The extra click expands the old menu which is identical to a second machine I have still running Win10.

As I said previously, they dropped the ball on this and could have implemented it better but I DO like it. They should have started work on this back in the win7 or 8 days and it would be refined by now.

My point was that overall it's a positive direction. The previous solution puts them where you just described, all the way down at the bottom where you have to scroll If you have a long menu. I prefer them to be at the top and I've tried numerous ways over the years to get them there and been unable to do so. As it's been delivered, it's not complete. Changes will continue and soon you won't need the extra click to get to the remainder of the menu and your copy and paste should stay in same spot. Icons in place of words is not a new thing. I'm just excited to see them actually working on it because I'm so tired of constantly having to scroll down for simple copy and paste. Granted I have tried to force myself to use hot keys more frequently over the years but for some reason I can't seem to do that unless I'm repeatedly doing it with several items in a short period of time. Suddenly it dawns on me to use ctrl+x, c, and v which is better than any context menu. Lol I don't know why As I bought my first machine in 1996. You would think that everything was hot keys for me.

Come to think of it, maybe that's exactly what they were thinking is that more of us use hotkeys than we really do.

I think it's hilarious that you mention them making change for the sole purpose of keeping developers busy. Over the years I've posted at least a dozen rants about that exact thing. So it's good to know I'm not the only one who realizes this. 😁 I just don't think this is one of them. Instead I think it's the early stages of solving something I've been griping about for at least 15 years. So I don't want to do anything to discourage those types of things.

What disturbs me more is how they totally removed the ability to customize the start bar The way that I've had mine set up for about 20 years. It's a double stack bar with a quick launch panel on the left. I often have too many apps running simultaneously to deal with pinned apps. Since they first did away with it I've been able to restore quicklaunch manually I creating a new toolbar and pointing it to a folder via the command line. Now they've removed that ability as well as the ability to double stack the start bar. For that reason alone I've rolled back to Windows 10. If there's any example of making change for no reason than to keep developers busy, there it is.

Thank you!