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The single most "oh, Microsoft" moment I had when updating to Windows 11 is actually glossed over in this article without comment. Context menus are restyled, a
by kemayo 4y ago
The single most "oh, Microsoft" moment I had when updating to Windows 11 is actually glossed over in this article without comment. Context menus are restyled, and also now have a "show more options" entry[1] -- if you press it, what happens? The pre-Windows-11 context menu appears.
That's right. There's archeological layers of UI design in context menus now.
[1] https://ntdotdev.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png https://ntdotdev.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png
- encryptluks2 4y agoThey also hide some of the most useful options while keeping the most useless. Rename is now one of the ones hidden by default.
- nikanj 4y agoThe default list is created at the marketing department, not the usability lab. Actually it does follow the faux usability trend where ”options confuse user”, and the perfect UI is just an uniform off-white screen with no controls
- Uehreka 4y agoIt actually isn’t, but I wouldn’t blame you for thinking it was. It’s now an icon of a text cursor and a tiny text box.
- kemayo 4y agoHuh, I'll admit that I hadn't even noticed that button-ribbon at the top of the context menu yet. :D
- chinabot 4y agoBetter not get used to it, it will probably change by Windows 12
- kube-system 4y agoThis is why buttons should always have text.
- baud147258 4y agowell, having the copy as path available by default is an improvement, but that context menu is still a step back
- alex_duf 4y ago"rename" use to be F2, not sure if that's still the case nowadays
- EMM_386 4y agoIt's still F2, and due to this change I've actually learned to start using this more often.
- procarch2019 4y agoThat new context menu is garbage (for me). I use advanced functions regularly to the point that after a day of being on 11 it bothered me enough to figure out how to revert to showing the “advanced” (old) context menu.
- nikanj 4y agoHow?? How can one achieve this power?
- procarch2019 4y agoI did it so long ago, so I’m not quite sure it was this. A quick google gave me this: https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-right-click-show-all-options/ https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-right-click-show-all-op... There are a few things out there, but I always trust a good ol’ registry hack over a 3rd party exe.
- jaywalk 4y agoThank you so much for this. I never even thought to look for a way to change it back, I thought I was stuck with this annoyance forever.
- zamalek 4y agoGoing forward, when I hear the critique that Linux "has too many things to customize," I am going to point people at these comments. I am so glad that I got off this rollercoaster.
- procarch2019 4y agoCompletely agree with you and Linux is great for my home computer, but for some of us Windows at work is an unwavering reality.
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- npteljes 4y agoI feel so angry about that new context menu. It's also visibly slower than the previous one (which, in turn, is slower than the Win XP version was). The second WTF was the centered start menu, killing my decade old reflex of going to the bottom left with the pointer and clicking. This at least has a toggle.
- IAmGraydon 4y ago>The second WTF was the centered start menu, killing my decade old reflex of going to the bottom left with the pointer and clicking. This at least has a toggle. Why do people even mention this? As you said, it has a toggle. How did it “kill your decade old reflex” when it literally takes 5 seconds to fix it?
- anonymousab 4y agoWell, as the designers oft like to say: Defaults matter.
- jaywalk 4y agoDoes the default really matter in this case, though? It's not even like it takes a registry hack to move it back to the left. It's right there in the taskbar settings.
- t-writescode 4y agoMultiply a quarter billion children having to fix it for a quarter billion grandparents, and that's a lot of wasted time and added frustration to the world for little to no reason.
- npteljes 4y agoYou know what does take a registry hack though? Moving the taskbar to the left, or right[0]. As the screens have much more space horizontally than vertically, it would make sense, at least for some people, right? Well no, according to Microsoft. [0] https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-move-taskbar/ https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-move-taskbar/
- EMM_386 4y agoOne of the first things I do on a Win 11 install is to revert the context menus back to the way they used to be. It's the single most annoying thing to me ... the rest of the changes I can live with. It can be done with RegEdit and some minor changes to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID. Information is online.
- fortyseven 4y agoThat, among other things in Win11, was one of the last big pushes that got me to start using Linux full time. It's clear Windows isn't headed towards some bright future. Just more and more layers of shit on top of last gen. Like they can't actually finish anything. Just a katamari of code.
- rolenthedeep 4y agoThis is utter insanity.