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Microsoft quietly showed a credible path out of one of Windows 11’s most persistent gripes — the long, crowded right‑click (context) menu — with a split context‑menu concept surfaced during a WinUI developer presentation, but the change is still an early, developer‑first proposal and not a...

Microsoft’s WinUI team quietly showed a path out of one of Windows 11’s longest‑running UX gripes: the bloated right‑click (context) menu. The company is experimenting with a Split Context Menu pattern — powered by a new WinUI control referred to as SplitMenuFlyoutItem — which collapses related...

Microsoft is preparing a targeted overhaul of Windows 11’s long‑complained‑about right‑click menu in File Explorer — a redesign, previewed in WinUI developer materials, that replaces jammed vertical lists with split menu entries driven by a new WinUI control called SplitMenuFlyoutItem...

Microsoft appears to have acknowledged one of Windows 11’s longest‑running UX complaints — the increasingly cluttered and slow right‑click context menu — and is rolling out a developer‑facing fix that could shrink, reorganize, and modernize how apps surface commands in File Explorer and other...

Microsoft’s long-simmering complaint about bloated right-click menus may finally get a meaningful fix: recent developer previews and a WinUI community demonstration show a split context menu approach that surfaces a single sensible default action for a file type while tucking related but less...

Microsoft is quietly rolling back one of Windows 11’s longest-running UX complaints: the cramped, repetitive, and hard-to-navigate right-click context menu in File Explorer — and the fix, as reported from community previews and developer channels, is a new “Split Context Menu” design driven by a...

I added a convert button to my Windows 11 right‑click menu and the moment it arrived my workflow stopped feeling like a scavenger hunt and started feeling like a proper desktop again — a single right‑click now handles conversions, compression, resizing and simple edits without launching a dozen...

Windows 10’s end-of-life has sharpened the upgrade conversation, and many users who moved to Windows 11 have found a handful of modernizations more irritating than helpful — especially the compact right‑click menu, the redesigned Start layout, Start search’s Bing integration, the growing...

Adding WinZip to the right‑click context menu in Windows 11 turns routine zipping and unzipping into a two‑click habit and restores a small but meaningful slice of desktop productivity that many power users miss. This deep‑dive tutorial covers three practical methods — the built‑in WinZip...

Windows 11’s right‑click menu has been a recurring gripe for power users and productivity-minded desktop veterans, and a lightweight, free utility called Nilesoft Shell promises not just a rollback or cosmetic patch, but a practical, highly configurable replacement that makes the context menu...

The Windows 11 right‑click menu was redesigned to be sleeker and more touch‑friendly, but that same simplicity has hidden many long‑standing productivity features behind a small “Show more options” link — and for power users who rely on third‑party shell extensions (7‑Zip, WinRAR, Git tools and...

For many long-time Windows users, the tiny "Show more options" link in Windows 11’s abbreviated right‑click menu is more than an annoyance — it interrupts muscle memory, adds clicks to everyday tasks, and compounds into lost minutes across a workday. There are three practical ways to bring the...

ExplorerPatcher has quietly become the Swiss Army knife for Windows users who loathe the design-first choices in Windows 11 and want the productivity-first behavior of Windows 10 back — restoring classic context menus, a movable taskbar, the familiar Start layout, and the full File Explorer...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27950 to the Canary Channel with a tight, targeted set of bug fixes aimed at smoothing a handful of visual and installation problems that have frustrated Insiders — most notably fixes for taskbar preview misalignment after display resolution...

Microsoft’s recent nudge to users — asking “what do you miss most in Windows?” — is more than a PR moment; it’s a revealing sign that the company is wrestling with conflicting priorities for Windows 11: glossy AI capabilities and the long list of everyday quality‑of‑life features that power...

Winaero Tweaker can turn Windows 11 from a one-size-fits-most OS into a personalized desktop with one-click rollbacks of Microsoft’s design choices — and the six changes described in the XDA piece are a solid starter pack for reclaiming control. Background Winaero Tweaker is a well-established...

If the new “Ask Copilot” entry in Windows 11’s right‑click menu has landed on your system and you’d rather not see it, you can remove it quickly — either by blocking the File Explorer shell extension that adds the menu item or by uninstalling/disabling Copilot entirely. The tweak is...

Microsoft's newest Canary‑channel experiment folds small but consequential AI workflows directly into the Windows 11 shell: a right‑click “AI actions” submenu in File Explorer that surfaces visual search and one‑click image edits, accompanied by a returning seconds clock in the Notification...

Microsoft is quietly folding AI-powered image editing and Bing visual search directly into the File Explorer right‑click menu as part of Insider testing, a move that turns the once‑simple file manager into a micro‑workflow gateway for quick edits and visual lookups. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s latest Insider whispers fold AI deeper into the Windows shell: right‑click a picture in File Explorer and you may now see an “AI actions” submenu offering Bing Visual Search, background blur, object erase, and background removal — a small set of micro‑workflows that signal a broader...