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> While I have your attention, you might also like to know that you can spin the gear in Windows 11’s Notepad app. It’s like a digital fidget spinner, and part of the many delightful little additions to Windows 11.

Hey Microsoft, thanks for the spinner, but how about instead you un-ruin right clicking in explorer and give me my corners back.

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Because as we all know as software engineers, Windows as a whole is likely only written by a single team or maybe even single developer, and thus multiple features cannot be worked on at the same time, and thus you have to pick between these two things.

There's something called budget. People are being paid to write frivolous crap, when those funds could've gone to better uses. If you're someone who pays for software, you want your money to pay for the things you want.

That in itself is orthogonal to progress or regression. For example, while one team could put a fidget spinner in Notepad, another could ruin right-clicking in Explorer. Which obviously raises the question if another team could be spun up to incentivize the first team to distract the second team long enough for a fourth team to swoop in and fix right-clicking in Explorer.

After that, you have a whale eat the whole let of them. But then how do you get rid of the whale?

You ask Japan to conduct some research on it.

>a single developer

you don't actually believe this

You can restore the legacy right click functionality in Explorer with a registry hack: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restor...

Pretty sure there’s a WinTweak11 or something for all of that already.

How about they replace notepad.exe with something offering the bare minimum of what Linux users get in the default text editors of their Desktop Environments?

Shift + Right Click shows the classic right click menu. I'd prefer a setting to turn it off, but it's just muscle memory for me now and I never see the new menu.

I actually welcome the return of easter eggs because that was a time when Microsoft programs were sincerely awesome.

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