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[–] 30 points 11 months ago* (7 children)

I was a win10 user because I was forced to update from 7. So I got really annoyed when I saw the new context menu for dumdums. It's useless.

If I ever need to install windows 11, either on a virtual machine or for a family member, I run a script that returns the old context menu (and several others that remove a bunch of bloat and de-activate internet search on the searchbar)

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Ohh not totally for dumdums. The design of the old context menu is one of Explorer's greatest weaknesses.

    When you right click that menu, every context application DLL listed in the registry needs to load. So if you have an end user with a bunch of context apps. mp3tag, smartrename,scan for viruses or even worse some dll that needs a network resource to init. that context menu can take 5-10 seconds to load on an old encumbered system.

    9/10 they just want to right click and open with or rename, so there's a cheap menu with no dll loading and an option to load them anyway.

    I feel you, I set my win11 desktop to show the old style too, but the idea behind it isn't bad.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Wouldn't the better idea have been to load specific DLLs on activation of a function then? Dicking over users that know how to use their OS for the sake of digital slobs seems unfair.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    There's a million different design problems in all of Windows. There's probably a million better ways to fix the problem.

    I'm just saying that what they did isn't without merit. And they did leave you the option to turn it off.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Microsoft has been doing the most to break those. I was using PatchExplorer which has a lot of these features. Microsoft broke the ability to completely remove that awful, wasted space for “Recommended” in the Start Menu. It’s absolutely useless and an eyesore.

    But it at least still worked to revert the context menu to what it should be. I hate always having to figure out what icon is for copy/paste/delete than just having the damn word and also having to go to the old context for 7zip/other third party apps.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Its because the recommended is literally ads. Microsoft is putting ads on the start menu. If that cant get someone to switch to Linux, nothing can

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Yep, that’s exactly what I realized too and why they’re hellbent on it being there.

    I am no longer using Windows at home except a server I’m working on moving to Linux and it’s partly because of this. I’ve given up on Windows.

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