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Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by hooby on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:36AM (#33728694)
I only updated my gaming machine to Windows 11 about two weeks ago (running Mint on my work device) - and it immediately felt rather incomplete/unfinished to me.

For example, I am using 7zip for compression. In file explorer I right click a file/directory I want to compress, but the option to compress with 7zip is missing from the context menu. So I choose "more options" at the bottom of the menu, and what I get is the Win10 context menu in the old layout (different background, different font+size, etc.) - which has everything the Win11 menu has + some more stuff (including "compress with 7zip").

facepalm

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Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by wilg on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:15AM (#33728893)
Sometimes I have to just right click again which sometimes shows the old context menu instead of the new one? I think? What a wild OS.

(Also, it's wild how much better macOS's .zip file handling is.)

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Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by IlGrigiore on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:25AM (#33728954)
The trick is to use shift+right click to access the old context menu. Incidentally, shift+right click also enables to copy the full path to any file in file explorer.
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Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by 8293048883 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @04:25AM (#33729316)
> For example, I am using 7zip for compression

Nanazip is a "7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience" available on store/winget with the right hooks in place for Win11 context menus.

Old menu is also available with Shift+Rightclick, or reverted entirely via registry tweak

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