right click

Right‑clicking on a laptop in Windows is no longer limited to a single physical button — modern machines give you multiple, built‑in ways to summon the context menu, and mastering them saves time and frustration whether you’re on Windows 11 or Windows 10. This feature article distills the three...

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...

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...

Microsoft's latest Stable release of Edge, version 139.0.3405.111, quietly brings a small but useful productivity tweak — Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization baked directly into the right-click context menu — alongside a roster of bug fixes and performance refinements that continue Edge’s...

Microsoft has taken a long-running complaint about Notepad’s overstuffed right‑click menu seriously: Insiders are now seeing a compact, File Explorer–style context menu that surfaces core edit actions in a single top row while keeping AI and less‑used commands below — a move that trims pointer...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a redesigned right‑click menu for Notepad in Windows 11, bringing the long-familiar text editor into alignment with the modern, streamlined context‑menu style that Microsoft has been applying across the OS. rty has long been defined by speed, simplicity, and...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a refreshed right‑click experience for Notepad in Windows 11, aligning the long‑running text editor with the redesigned, streamlined context menus Microsoft introduced across the OS — a change now appearing in Notepad builds shipping to Windows Insiders and...

I recently upgraded from 22H2 to 22H3 and soon found out that when I right-click on Start, nothing happens! I then tried a lot of suggested fixes including replacing contents of WinX folder, DISM, SFC /scannow, Registry hacks - none of which did anything. I finally booted into Safe Mode and...

I right click on the start icon and select Device Manager, and nothing happens. Some of the other options open, but not Device Manager.

I am 58 and have been using Windows probably since Windows 95 started. And yes, there have been problems (XP) But Windows 11 has to be, by far, the worst! It's pretty fast and doesn't have many errors...BUT, you took away ALL user controls!!!! I am a graphic designer and my work is based on...

Hello. I would like to know if there is any way to decrease the context menu. I am uploading three images to illustrate what I mean. If I right click on an image or folder (images 1 and 3) you will see that the context menu is huge. The only way I know of to reduce this, is to remove the...

I found this on Reddit very handy as I do not like the new right click menus. The new explorer menu is not too bad but I disabled anyway. No 3rd-party apps or patches or whatever, just a simple registry value. Run the commands in your preferred command line restart explorer shell to take...

Newer build with high end components. Machine Specs: - Windows 10 - Motherboard: x570 Taichi - Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor - 3.70 GHz - RAM: 64.0 GB - M.2 970 EVO 1TB (400GB used) - Graphics Card: Ventus 3X 3080 Whenever I try to move files around on my computer, my file...

I have on PC that is slow downloading pictures or files on right click. Works perfect in Fire Fox or IE just not in chrome

New problem - whenever I right click on a photo on my desktop, no deal. Have to drag it to the recycle bin. Thoughts?

I am posting my problem here because I've made the jump from Windows 10 to 11, but I've had this problem when I was running Windows 10 also. My problem is I'll have to right click several times on a file in Windows explorer in order for the context menu to stay on long enough for me to choose a...

so when i tried right clicking on something like desktop, file, other. this right click menu is such an pain so i decided to look up an tutorial on how to get the old right click menu on windows 11 and it used to work but today it dosent work now. so i kept trying and trying and nothing works so...

I have lost the "send to zip" function for an Excel spreadsheet. I used the Copyright Office's spreadsheet format but when I right click on it for the "send to zip" function, the file becomes grayed out and "Not responding". No problem with other files -- just this one. I did change the...

Hello, We have right-click paste in windows 7 and this option appears wherever pasting is possible. But after pasting the clipboard contents remain in memory. It would be nice if we have another paste-wipe option wherein after pasting the clipboard content is wiped. How can we make it possible ...

Hello, We have right-click paste in windows 7 and this option appears wherever pasting is possible. But after pasting the clipboard contents remain in memory. It would be nice if we have another paste-wipe option wherein after pasting the clipboard content is wiped. How can we make it possible ...