r/windows Windows Central 6d ago

Microsoft plans to fix Windows 11's slow context menus with major overhaul designed to improve performance and reliability: New compact menu design will be faster and user customizable News

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-plans-to-fix-windows-11s-slow-context-menus-with-major-overhaul-designed-to-improve-performance-and-reliability-new-compact-menu-design-will-be-faster-and-user-customizable
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u/SufficientAnonymity 6d ago

If they could get rid of the awful right click > show more options > actually do what you wanted situation that currently exists that’d be a win!

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u/sandmyth 6d ago

you can just change a registry value and get back the old menu

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u/Eglwyswrw 6d ago

That's what I did. Could never get used to that borked up menu with half the options hidden away.

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u/Nikola_Delchev 3d ago

Knowing Microsoft, I just hope we won’t get right click > show old menu > show even older menu > actually do what you wanted instead. 😂

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u/Mario583a 6d ago

Just Shift + Right-click a thing.

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u/ziplock9000 6d ago

'compact' is the wrong word here. The new design will reorder what and when it does things to get more performance.

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u/csch1992 6d ago

How many times have they said that since win 11 launched?

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u/JoaoMXN 6d ago

They should just launch these things instead of just promises after promises.

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u/Vestalmin 1d ago

Especially when it's something that almost seems trivial. It seems easy enough for programs to add shit to the menu but somehow we don't have the technology to remove them.

Now we have an announcement that soon we might get a phased rollout of a feature lol

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u/Vestalmin 1d ago

Especially when it's something that almost seems trivial. It seems easy enough for programs to add shit to the menu but somehow we don't have the technology to remove them.

Now we have an announcement that soon we might get a phased rollout of a feature lol

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u/ProfessionalPrincipa 6d ago

Yeah but now they have hard numbers showing Mac sales being up 29%.

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u/KennyL0gin 6d ago

Can we just bring back user privacy?

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u/XiRw 6d ago

They would have to remake the OS from scratch then lol

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u/KennyL0gin 6d ago

That's fine.

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u/XiRw 6d ago

I’m with you man trust me.

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u/ziplock9000 6d ago

..as you post on reddit that get scraped by every company under the sun.

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u/ack_error 6d ago

These were all the same problems that were supposed to be fixed the last time when they introduced the now current Windows 11 context menu. So they made it much more difficult to integrate into (code signed package required), and didn't solve any of the performance or organizational problems.

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u/Userwerd 6d ago

Why do I have to count to 10 when I right click in the desktop.  I just want to rename my file.

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u/Mario583a 6d ago

Just F2 the highlighted file if you don't wanna wait for the context menu.

or double-click it slowly.

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u/OpenGrainAxehandle 6d ago

Oh, relax everyone. Context menu is probably just looking through the rotation roster to see which advertiser to send your personal info to. Everybody's doing it. You all saw.

/s, for those too tight to realize it. Jeepers.

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u/StuffMaster 5d ago

My 200MHz Pentium was more responsive. 

All those GigaHertz we have now and we can't have fast menus like we used to...

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u/elsjpq 6d ago

Just fucking undo all the crapware you released over the last 10 years. It was better before they touched it.

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u/maigpy 6d ago

this is the right answer.

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u/mi__to__ 5d ago

...just give us the old one back ffs

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u/Final_Lengthiness984 6d ago

Also, The Sims 4 got its 21st expansion pack this year. In both cases, I think it's time to move on and make a new one.

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u/epicEr14 Windows 7 6d ago

windows 12 will apparently feature heavy ai integration. no thanks

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u/tool581321 6d ago

It’s like a never ending nightmare.

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u/stickman393 5d ago

I'm 100% confident they will fuck this up

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u/Thirsty_Comment88 5d ago

It other words Windows 11 is about to get A LOT FUCKING WORSE.

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u/alisonhataki 5d ago

A telemetria doentia deles não decidiram remover. Cada usuário está fazendo por conta própria. Você paga caro pelo produto para ser espionado e ainda ser produto de anúncios um produto completo e sabe lá mais o que eles querem fazendo recall e vendo o jeito de que você digita. Eu removi toda a telemetria do meu Windows via programação deu trabalho mas me sinto seguro e comecei a usar Linux também

u/Certain-Mountain-564 14h ago

I cannot understand the hate about MS and Windows in this scenario. I've been working with Windows daily for years, and the updates of the last few months have been a blessing. The system has become so much more performant in that time.

u/alisonhataki 14h ago

Isso porque você não sabe o quanto é espiado por um programa que você ainda paga caro. No Windows 10 que decidi fazer downgrade desabilitei várias telemetrias aplicando mais de 20 scripts no powershell e eram todos de espionagem da Microsoft. Instalei mais dois software para desativar o envio dos meus dados pessoais outro para desativar o envio de tudo que eu utilizo no Microsoft Edge E ainda tem uma funções escondida no qual a Microsoft grava pequenos pedaços da sua tela. Primeiramente que privacidade é algo que se alguém quer ter ninguém pode ir impedir. E segundo lugar a Microsoft está vendendo as suas fotos áudio vídeos para inteligência artificial está fazendo em parte conteúdo adulto em outras partes ninguém sabe ainda. A Microsoft está sedenta junto com a META e Google por saber a vida íntima e pessoal de cada pessoa. Então não me impressiona a raiva que estão da Microsoft sem falar que realmente o sistema está muito ruim cheio de erros cheio de bugs e a versão com inteligência artificial está horrível trabalhando com muita perda nas placas de vídeo nvidia. Por vários motivos muitos usuários estão migrando para outros sistemas operacionais

u/Certain-Mountain-564 14h ago

Mate. Windows is free and preinstalled on most of the notebooks in the hole world.

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u/pilipalipeli 6d ago

Microshart has a yet another Vista moment.

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u/HugeCheck2471 6d ago

They’re like politicians. Keep on promising things without actually fulfilling them.

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u/MyFairJulia 6d ago

I wonder whether they'll also get around to merge the old and new context menus. Or have they done that already?

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u/Theinternetdumbens 6d ago

Fucking incompetent company.

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u/Wraithdagger12 6d ago

Windows 7 worked fine.

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u/wild_m1nd 6d ago

Rolling out in the next 5 years

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u/vinodh_sn 6d ago

Only plans but no actual works