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

so friggin annoying,,, do the developers even use the software??

so friggin annoying,,, do the developers even use the software??

Makes you wonder doesn't it ?

Maybe they use Macs... HAH !

The saved searches (no longer supported seemingly) on file explorer is another hot topic on the steaming pile !

This was done because the cut/copy/paste are the most frequently used yet for many of us they get relegated to a place where we have to scroll to get to them far too often as our context menus look like this which involves moving the mouse cursor to the very bottom of the page where only a tiny portion of the list responds to a click/hold for several seconds while waiting for the list to advance 5-6 additional lines just to click the thing.... which if you slip off of the edge, you have to then repeat.

I only used Win11 for a week before reverting back to 10 and still feel it's not quite ready for me but that menu was the result of a lot of collaboration between users and developers to condense the right-click menu into something more manageable for everyone.

From what I've read from others who have made the change, you should adapt to it in a relativey short amount of time, and then later in life as you find yourself doing a lot more with your machine and with a lot more tools at your disposal, you'll be glad this change was made..... Or maybe you won't actually as you have nothing more than the out-of-the-box menu going on and nothing to compare it to.

It's hard to explain how much of a pain point this is. I've spent probably 20-30 hours fine-tuning this menu on each and every machine I've had over the last 25 years. I'm sure it looks like a lot to you, but for me, there are still some things I would like to have there which aren't because I use them less frequently and I don't want the list any longer than it is already. you just have no idea how frustrating and time-consuming it is for many of us. The alternative would be to remove many of the items but that would mean working even less efficiently by having to do things in multiple steps that can be done with a single click when this menu is setup for the way that one works. It would be great if there was a simple, straightforward way to do this and just move items like cut/copy/paste up to a more convenient spot, but the menu is generated dynamically based on the file type, folder, etc. Above for example is for an executable file. But if I right-click a text file I get a different menu. Below are three different right click menus from a png, folder, and txt file.

Each app registers it's file types at the time of installation while each tool corresponds to various apps. The more tools and materials you have, the more complext it becomes as each line is generated based on the unique relationships of the file types and the installed software. So if I CTRL click two document files, an option to combine them in Adobe Acrobat appears that isn't there if I've only selected one file. Some documents can be converted to pdf, others cannot. Note that cut, copy, and paste are not on any of these although copy to folder and move to folder are.

As I said above, give yourself a few weeks and your body/mind will have adjusted and you'll be cruisin along just as before without any conscious effort on your part. The first few days it may cause you 1/4 second for each right click and from there it will decline. Soon you'll et the change happened at all. For those of us with wider set of duties however, it's going to save us as much as 30 minutes, if not more, every single day.

windows 11 is worst than win 10

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!