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First look: Windows 11 is replacing Windows 95-era Properties dialog, now with dark mode and WinUI
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Wanna bet they fuck it up just like they did the control panel and the right-click menu?
And file explorer, and the start menu, and the task bar, and Outlook…
And notepad and the task manager
Fun fact: especially for those machines where you cannot install any modifications to Windows, you can get the old context (right click) menu by holding shift while right clicking.
There’s also a registry edit to make it the default without having to remember a modifier key
That’s good to know! Unfortunately, even editing the registry is hard to do on a lot of work machines.
What I did as soon as I learned about this
Fixing the right click menu was the first thing I did after installing W11, the new one is basically useless
I can’t wait for around 80% of features moving to this one and needing to perform some kind of ancient incantation to access the old version for the remaining 20%
🤭 time to do registry mods for the hidden properties after having to registry mod the old rightclick menu back.
Why are the literal only two things they know how to do:
Seriously? (Well, not seriously seriously. Rhetorically “seriously”.)
Great. How about stop spying on us first?
We hear you loud and clear - here’s more Copilot!
Also: Recall
I still type appwiz.cpl into search to open the old add and remove programs box to uninstall or see whats installed. I am not a fan of the newer looking one at all located in the new settings area. It is pretty funny that they have been working on trying to fully replace all the old windows elements since the beginning of 10 and still not even close. Even funnier that when it is replaced the old stuff still gets left behind and not removed either.
And ncpa.cpl for network settings. And regedit. And msinfo32. And and and….
New ui stuff is so shit. Dozens of clicks. Always moving around. Annoying af
I absolutely hate the network settings now as well. Its now easier to just get cmd to find out my IP if needed instead of getting to the adapter and open to see the info and up time. Its just extra steps to do that same thing now and i always forget what to click on when under the new settings network page. If anything it should just be info displayed there by default which would be nice…
win+r, enter, ipconfig, enter. How I do it in actuality haha
I am too lazy to do that and just keep control panel pinned to my taskbar.
Eh, debatable, some titles of the 90s might not run, even if you set the executable to run in compatibility mode.
M$ wondering why people are pinching their noses when near w11 when they’ve been slopping all over it. Release something broken, “fix” it later, only this is going way, way worse than XP (which needed 2 service packs to “feel good” and be safer), Vista (which needed W7) and even 8 (which needed W10)
Yeah, this will be a vibecoded disaster.
IIRC they had to start overclocking your CPU a while back, when you right-click on a file so the Win11m rightclick menu loads faster than after like 8 seconds.
space cadet pinball runs better on linux than any modern windows
More shit to relearn. What would takes seconds now takes minutes due to a clunky UI designed for looks rather than efficiency.
What I really don’t understand is how Microsoft has a near religious dedication to backwards compatibility at the technical level, but will move on to whatever next shiny object they see when it comes to compatibility at the user level.
Relearning the basic functionality of operating a computer every few years rests entirely on the end user, and never on the developer. It’s aggressively backwards.
Pretty easy to explain, you’re not the customer, corpos paying 8 figures annually who need to run their 90s software are
The upgrade we’ve all be waiting for.
Still trash