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

[Parkinsond]

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.

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

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.

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[TairikuOkami]

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.

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Besides, MS efforts look like this, even disabled items are still visible.

 

[TuxTalk]

all MS need is something simple like this

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

all MS need is something simple like this

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They prefer vibecoded mess over it

 

[Sorrento]

I use Nilesoft Shell & have for a while, works well.

 

[lokamoka820]

Windows 11: Microsoft is working on another context menu redesign

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When Microsoft released Windows 11, it became clear quickly that the company’s attempt to fix the often convoluted Explorer context menu backfired. Microsoft’s answer was...

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[Parkinsond]

All will be fixed by 2034.

 

[stonjean633]

All will be fixed by 2034.

You meant EOL before it get fixed.
Maybe we need to buy Extended Support specifically for this

 

[Parkinsond]

You meant EOL before it get fixed.
Maybe we need to buy Extended Support specifically for this

Just making extended support pay.

 

[DJDANY]

Disaster what Microsoft is doing with this operating system!
I also think that 2030 will come and almost nothing will be fixed!

 

[Marko :)]

Let's be real. The only way to fix Windows is for Microsoft to start creating entirely new operating system from scratch. They keep slapping new code on top of decades old one and wonder why it's not working out. Code needs to be replaced, not just patched with new lines of code.

Create a force of developers tasked only to code the new OS; leave few of them to fix bugs on current version of Windows. Even if new version didn't have half of the features, I'm sure people would switch either way if it was snappier, more stable because majority use PCs just for surfing the web and reading e-mails.