![]() The secret is to hide the new context menu code from Windows. Oh, dear Microsoft, I thought you actually did product testing before releasing this stuff! Did your testing not reveal that this inhibits productivity rather than enhance it? Thanks, Bill!įear not, my Geeks, for I have a solution for you that will restore your context menus to their pre-Win11 functionality. Then I have to find the right icon, which means unless I can recognize that weird little shape, which I suppose is supposed to look like two pieces of paper, as the “Copy” command, or the one that looks like a tiny clipboard with a blue rectangle as “Paste,” I end up hovering the cursor over every icon and waiting for the tooltip to pop-up and tell me what the icon actually does. I find myself mousing up and down the menu looking for the command word until my brain taps me on the shoulder and says “Hey, Stupid! Remember this is Windows 11 and things have changed!” I’m talking about things I use all the time, like Cut/Copy/Paste, Delete, Rename, and more, to name just a few. There is one thing in Win 11 that I simply cannot get used to, and that is how they changed many of the commands on Windows File Explorer’s context menu from words to icons along the top of the menu. So I do my best to adapt to the new environment, and things usually work out. I generally tolerate these evolutionary updates and take them with a grain of salt because I know I’ll be compelled to upgrade at some point, anyway. Like most people, within the last few months I’ve upgraded many of the computers that I use to Windows 11. Perhaps a slightly different solution based on your suggestion would be for Bob to download the YouTube app from the Windows Store and see if that can properly render his videos.īob, if you’re reading this, give it a try! That’s actually the case for many of the services people use via their browser, Gmail being another prime example. I think it’s a good chance that many, perhaps most people, don’t even realize there is a dedicated YouTube app for their PC. explicitly says that he’s using YouTube in a browser - more specifically, Google Chrome - although he has tried it on Edge also. Your thought would be a good one, except if you take a look back at the issue in question, you’ll see that reader Bob L. Once I submit it, it’s out of my hands, and it goes wherever it’s sent (or wherever the plagiarizers on the Internet send it). You’d think I would know where my column publishes, but I really don’t. More: Past readers need additional help with their tech issues from The Geek | It's Geek to Me Previous column: Keeping up with today's TV technology is not easy | It's Geek to Me
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