Windows 11, Explorer, why is there no REFRESH button ?

I too don't understand why "Open in Terminal" is on the Windows 11 right-click menu, but not "Refresh"! How many of regular users are going to even understand what "Open in Terminal" means?

Also, not everyone is familiar with keyboard shortcuts (like F5), and I too struggle with the Fn lock on laptops. The Win-11 right click menu does NOT tell users what button to click to achieve something, so keyboard shortcuts are not a good suggestion for somebody getting up to speed with an updated OS in my opinion, if one has to remember it is F5 to Refresh and not F9.

Here is a suggestion to Windows developers:

Make the right-click context menu user-editable; something like the 'Startup Apps' in Windows or more like the Bookmark Editor in a browser, maybe? That way end-users can order the menu options to suit their individual needs i.e. have the most frequently used menu items on the first right click, and have everything else in sub levels like 'Show more options' or a user created sub-level.

This helped, thanks.

I hope they just add the "refresh" option to the right-click menu. It's always been there, so it being hidden in windows 11 is weird, the F5 refresh isn't perceptible. And the design of the "show more options" is as it was in Windows 10 ... why? Did Microsoft forget to design it to fit windows 11 design? It looks ugly compared to the new design.

I hope they just replace the "open on terminal" option with the "refresh" option, that is widely more used, and it's perfect imo. In fact in 2025, I was hoping I could choose some of the options that show up in my right-click, but that's just me.

On my Acer laptop, I had to click Fn+F5. F5 by itself made the display dimmer.

I find it most convenient to do a refresh by pressing F5.

F5 will refresh in regards to things like file and folder sort order. If you need to refresh in regards to something like an icon that you've changed but is still showing the old one, you'll need to initiate a "shell refresh". That can be done with nircmd shellrefresh.

What I don't get is this .. If you're gonna make a new fancy context menu (which I honestly think looks pretty good, better than the one before) why not put all the functions for "Other options". Why press that to create the menu from the previous version ? Don't get it.