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Who did this and why do they do it (see picture below)? The File Explorer right-click menu has had the options: Cut, Copy, Paste, Rename, Delete listed (as words) in this menu FOREVER and now some genius decided that after all these years, Windows users are too dumb to read. The words were replaced with icons. THIS IS SO ANNOYING. THE MUSCLE MEMORY IN MY HANDS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO RETRAIN AFTER YEARS OF THE MENU BEING THE SAME WAY. Now I have to stop and think about something that I've done instinctively for years. I can get to the ORIGINAL right-click menu by selecting "Show More Options," shown in the photo below, but WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO, THAT'S AN EXTRA STEP? If I am intelligent enough to boot up a computer, then certainly I can read the words: Cut, Copy, Paste, Rename and Delete. I don't need you to create icons to represent those functions. IF IT'S NOT BROKEN THEN DON'T TRY TO FIX IT. STOP DUMBING DOWN THE SOFTWARE AND MAKING THINGS HARDER PLEASE.
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The most used items have literally been moved from the bottom......to the top. That's all they did, they moved them from the bottom....to the top. You don't even have to click the sub-menu. They literally just moved them CLOSER to your cursor. How are people actually confused by this?
Because I don't have a fracking Rosetta Stone on my desk to help me figure out which of their idiotic new icons you claim aren't new (insert angry face) I'm supposed to select!
Tiny, meaningless icons on a small screen with less than perfect eyesight make this much harder than simple text. I work on medical devices and usability studies are required with intended users. I can only assume that Microsoft does not test with older users or simply does not care.
I agree; I see no advantages in Windows 11. Sometimes I think that app engineers put forward changes simply because without changes there would be no point in employing them!
windows 11 is worst than win 10
I am having the same frustration. I waste more time staring at the icons, hovering over them to make sure that the icon represents what I aiming to do and since the icons have less width than words, there is a greater chance of clicking the wrong one. Yes, I accidentally clicked delete on one occasion but thankfully Ctrl-Z brought the folder back.
Regarding what is apparently the only existing fix, I can't adapt regedit because this is a work computer, and I don't have admin permissions.
Please Microsoft, listen to the requests of your users and put this in your backlog of future enhancements.
The feedback on this thread has now reached 10 pages so that should indicate to you the importance of having your development team act on this simple request to change things back to the way they were or at least give us an option to do so instead just disregarding us.
You obviously spent a lot of time changing the style of all of the emojis for Windows 11 which no one asked for so please spend time on something that many users actually want.
