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Windows 11's Right Click Context Menu has got to go.

Anonymous
2024-02-29T16:22:53+00:00

This is the most terrible, stupid, and annoying thing Microsoft has ever designed into a UI.

They've completely abandoned us power users here, and even normal users.

Get rid of that stupid 'Show more Options' button and give us everything relevant to the element we're right clicking at the start, or give us an option to toggle it off so everyone gets the best of both worlds.

Having to use third party tools to hack up the UI to bring back the Windows 10 context menu is an atrocious bandaid many have been applying to fix this.

What would be even more amazing, which baffles me isn't an easily accessable thing, is the option to EDIT your right click context menu, and to uninstall / disable things that some programs attach to it.

Come on Microsoft.. at this rate, Windows 12 will be the curse of the computing world.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-07-31T21:39:40+00:00

    Agreed. This is a huge time waster. So unnecessary. No upside, all inconvenience.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T09:34:59+00:00

    Well said ! Who on earth comes up with these ridiculous ideas ?????

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-29T04:09:42+00:00

    I was forced in to the windows 11 "upgrade" on my work computers.

    Stupid and aggravating changes that just make things harder. Wrecking right click is one of them. Are they trying to force people off of mouse usage?

    "you'll get used to it," I'm told. "You'll get used to it," is a pretty poor defense of these "upgrades."

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T13:43:11+00:00

    I think Microsoft has a department of people whose purpose is to identify things that work well and make the users experience more pleasant and efficient, and then screw it up.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-02T19:20:31+00:00

    Hello, this is Emily.

    I echo you, having a toggle would have been nice from Settings.

    For now, to show those options by default will have to go through registry.

    You can run your Command Prompt in admin mode, then run this command:

    reg add HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 /ve /d "" /f

    Then restart the Explorer or Windows.

    That should disable the "show more options" and give you the full list.

    It works Emily. Thanks so much for your help and assistance.

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