That's interesting. Are you resident in UK? I use Quicken which is very, very long in the tooth, but still works extremely well. A brilliant program. I would happily upgrade it but Intuit have not released a UK version for many years.
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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2024-03-19T18:21:59+00:00 My new computer with Windows 11 destroyed a bunch of external drives, so I'm trying to get a refund for it. But my old Windows 10 computer is now working better than ever. Guess it got scared by the new one :) . But I like Windows 10 that now I want nothing more to do with Windows 11. I guess if it was my first computer it would be ok, but I'm too old to change the way I use it. I'll use 10 as long as I can. Just FYI, I'm still using Word 2003 and Quicken 2004, they do everything I need them for.
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Anonymous
2024-03-19T17:12:34+00:00 I love you! Will you marry me?
Seriously: I installed W11 a month ago and it was driving me NUTS!
Cheers, Dude/Dudette
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Anonymous
2024-03-06T16:56:07+00:00 I also find this horribly annoying! And to make it more painful, I also use a mac - which has WORDS in it's right-click file context menu. Same as windows used to.
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Anonymous
2024-02-28T14:21:04+00:00 yes it is so stupid, every time you have an update they change things for the worst thinking it is a the best. Same thing with the search bar now it is in the middle, **** (this can be fix in the setting). Those genius are not. but more likely morons.
but this morons thinking, can be fix buy adding some key in the registry. here the link. make sure you follow well since you don't want to messed up the registry. I will advice to read the article first and reread by following the steps. I did it and now I can right click hand have all the copy past ...
https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-context-menu-fix-right-click/