What’s happened? Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 introduces a revamped File Explorer right-click menu that reduces its vertical size by roughly one-third. Why is this important? Microsoft ...

Microsoft offers a redesigned context menu—also called the right-click menu—in Windows 11 that’s more modern-looking than the legacy right-click context menu from Windows 10. However, this aesthetic ...

With Windows 10 end of support rapidly approaching, I’ve been upgrading several PCs to Windows 11. One thing that I always find frustrating is the new abbreviated context menus. Part of the problem is ...

So, you installed Windows 11 on your PC—or you bought a machine with the OS pre-installed—and now your computer looks like everyone else's. There's no shame in sticking to the defaults, but if you ...

Microsoft is deeply integrating AI into Windows 11, most visibly by adding AI-powered actions to the File Explorer’s right-click menu. These new options, designed to summarize or edit files with a ...

Every major Windows update since Windows 8 has come with a redesign of the Start menu, and Windows 11 is no exception. This time, though, Microsoft took a radical approach: The taskbar is centered, ...

If the right-click context menu shows up on other screens on a Windows 11/10 multi-monitor setup, follow the solutions mentioned below. Let us talk about them in detail. 1] Try to turn off the other ...

The first thing I do on any Windows 11 PC to boost performance is adjust the visual effects. These include features such as ...

Every time I read a complaint from someone who's exasperated about something they encountered in Windows 11, I just shake my head and say, I tried to warn you. Two years ago, I wrote "Here's why ...

On the desktop and in Windows Explorer, the entry “Ask Copilot” has been appearing in the context menu when right-clicking on a registered file type such as DOCX, TXT, PDF or PNG for a few weeks now.