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Re:Windows 11 Insider Preview Build by rqtwteye on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:32AM (#43291568)
How about opening Explorer windows in less than a second (or at least 5)?

Or being able to customize the Explorer context menu. They were on the right track by pushing the old context menu into a separate second menu. But they should allow the user to select what shows in the primary menu instead of the seemingly random stuff that shows there.

Re:Windows 11 Insider Preview Build by vyrotek on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:58AM (#43291821)
There are a couple of alternatives to try. Scott Hanselman reviewed them here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUQrC5YxT0

FilePlot is very quick.

Re:Windows 11 Insider Preview Build by wkat4242 on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:41PM (#43292223)
Yeah my Amiga 500 from 1987 was faster at that lol

Ps I do absolutely hate the split of the context menu in two parts because many frequent operations have now become two clicks instead of one. Luckily it can be switched off at home but sadly not on my work laptop. I didn't imagine any power user would be happy with what change.

Re:Windows 11 Insider Preview Build by rqtwteye on Friday March 07, 2025 @06:00PM (#43295748)
I think the idea of having a primary context menu that pushes less important stuff into the second menu was good and long needed. But it needs to be user customizable so you can control what you really want. Instead we have a primary menu with random stuff and a secondary menu with other random stuff. I don't know how they manage Windows these days but whoever does it, has no interest/competence in making things better.
Re:Windows 11 Insider Preview Build by wkat4242 on Friday March 07, 2025 @07:00PM (#43296149)
Hmm fair enough, yes if I could pick the items it would make a lot more sense. Especially stuff like the send to submenu I would never use.