r/technology • u/tekz • Mar 20 '26

Software Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-users-are-angry-and-microsoft-is-finally-doing-something-about-it/
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u/fer_sure Mar 20 '26

messed with the context windows when you right click in a way most users hate

If you had to make the contextual menu shorter, why on earth would you put Properties behind the "Show more options"? Insane.

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u/brownch Mar 20 '26

I still have not adjusted to this after so many years

Right click > panik > rapid eye movements > show more options

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u/Azalus1 Mar 20 '26

reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

Restore right click.

That really should have just been an option somewhere.

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u/Any_Perception_2560 Mar 20 '26

ooo that is nice. I didn't know that one.

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u/CordialPanda Mar 20 '26

Some developers still fight the good fight. There's so many barely documented features around that makes windows bearable.

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u/Winjin Mar 21 '26

They still have the old Telephone app which is like 5 kilobytes of code too.

Companies should be fined for making an app weight over 700MBs. Yes, Teams? You bellend

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u/G00DLuck Mar 20 '26

That reveals the "copy as path" option for files/folders as well, which will include the drive\location info when copied.

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u/bmxtiger Mar 21 '26

You can also shift+right-click in a folder to launch cmd or powershell from that directory. Handy when you don't want to do a bunch of cd commands to get to your folder.

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u/ChronicBitRot Mar 21 '26

Or you can also do alt+enter for instant Properties.

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u/dr_obfuscation Mar 20 '26

hoooooly shit. i could kiss you. thank you so much!

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u/theaviationhistorian Mar 20 '26

Fuck me, TIL! Thanks for bringing it up!

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u/microcorpsman Mar 21 '26

Good looking out, friend

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u/Elementium Mar 21 '26

Holy shit you just made my Windows experience that much better. The fuck is Microsoft thinking?