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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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I recently "upgraded" to W11 a month ago. My brain still cannot even see the icons when I go to right click to copy paste. I literally can't see them until I think where the hell is copy paste. Then the icons magically fade into view through my eyes to my brain. I hate it.
I didn't say I was confused, I said I was annoyed. There's a difference. Please try to keep up. Thanks.
Just hear to voice my opinion also that this made things very inconvenient and was not needed. Its fine for me being a system admin, for my normal users, they are furious and blame me. :-(
I agree with your note about making it an option. That way someone who likes the graphical approach would be the one who would have to do something to turn it on. Leaving the rest of us to continue with our very familiar drop-down menu in English. Even though I know it's there in an icon - my eyesight is not so great - so I struggle to pick the right one out of the 5 or so in that lineup. I know it is somewhere in the middle of the group! Just have to remember it kind of looks like a squeegee on a window. LOL
If you work in IT and have users, you will hate this change. Killed productivity like someone flipped half the circuit breakers on production floor. Microsoft was foolish to enable it by default. Could have left it as an option for us all to ignore and forget. They are only fracturing the user base. Imagine if Ford tried replacing the steering wheel with a joystick.
