Shift + right-click. You're welcome.
Windows 11 File Explorer Right-click Menu was changed to include icons
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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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Anonymous
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2024-05-15T18:27:56+00:00 Yes exactly. It takes some young mind or weak intelect to think cryptic pictograms are a good solution for something like copy/paste in the microsoft windows right click menu...
I just started reading about this after being obligated to switch to windows 11 on my 2 compatible PC (on a fleet of 20+) and hope there is a simple fix.
Yet this is another "feature" that should be opt-in and not opt-out.
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Anonymous
2024-05-03T21:29:37+00:00 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!
Exactly. Software developers should NEVER go about changing a 29-year-old UI that EVERYONE is used to without being able to revert back. Teh The Windows User Interface Guidelines were first published in 1995. Why change them? I don't recall hearing anyone complaining that they wanted to have radical change.
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Anonymous
2024-05-03T20:01:08+00:00 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!