Hot Take Microsoft admits Windows 11’s right-click menu is a mess, will let you customize it after years of complaints

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Windows 11’s right-click menu, also known as the context menu, is a cluttered mess, but it could soon change course. Microsoft has confirmed that it’ll let you customize the context menu to your liking, which means you’ll be able to add or remove items.

In a post on X, Marcus Ash, who leads Design and Research for Windows and Devices at Microsoft, confirmed that you’ll be able to customize the context menu. In addition, the right-click menu will load faster and be simpler by default.

“[We’re] working on making context menus faster, simpler by default, configurable to what you use most. More will be shared on our approach soon,” Marcus wrote in a post on X.

A customizable context menu wasn’t on my bingo list, but I am pleasantly surprised at this point, as Microsoft has proven it’s listening to your feedback. It’s all part of the company’s plans to make Windows 11 a better operating system or, in Satya Nadella’s words, “win back” fans by focusing on fundamentals.

 
Please, no. There is no such thing as the right click menu, it is explorer shell and MS has not got explorer.exe just right yet, not in several decades.
Besides, MS efforts look like this, even disabled items are still visible.
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