It's no good - you can't legislate common sense or intelligence. Microsoft techs have lost the plot and they know it, but it keeps their jobs going if they can invent problems and then suggest the wrong way to solve them. :(
Windows 11 File Explorer Right-click Menu was changed to include icons
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Anonymous
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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Anonymous
2024-02-23T23:00:26+00:00 Also, icons go out of date a LOT faster than words. Can anyone who buys their first computer today know where the Save icon comes from? It's been a long time since floppy discs were replaced by flash drives.
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Anonymous
2024-02-04T15:26:35+00:00 Sadly, I was a developer, (now mostly management), just not for Windows apps. IDEs also use a bunch of icons with no text option. Even with a 24" monitor they are not easy to distinguish.
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Anonymous
2023-11-26T13:04:15+00:00 Thank you.
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Anonymous
2023-11-25T14:18:58+00:00 OH Thank God. For a while I was thinking maybe it's just me. This is so aggravating, It's stead of cut/paste I'm deleting or share. WHy do I want to share? On the other hand the cut/paste is there when right clicking on a web page.
Is there a way to change this?
Anyone?