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Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11
(www.tomshardware.com)
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Knowing Microsoft it’s probably more like a cloud upload tray.
Did they fix the explorer context menu yet?
Used Win 11 at work recently, the explorer context menu still requires you to go through submenus to get to things like 7Zip; things I use constantly and aren't in a sub-menu in Win 10. I'm not sure why Microsoft decided to 'improve' the context menu in the first place.
Edit: Apparently you can shift-right click to get to the functional context menu right off the bat.
That's a problem with 7zip, they haven't updated it to fix that. Other apps like it have, a fork of 7zip with a more modern UI called NanaZip has it.
Try Shift+right click next time....
That is a menu that gives you even more options than the classic menu (well, at least one more, "Run as a different user")
there's a one-line registry-based 'fix' to re-enable the old (full) context menu in win11.
i hate that some items are just icons now. i rarely use 11 in school but if i wanna for example copy using the context menu i can't find them and then i have to put down the coffee to use ctrl+c/v/x. until i remember they are icons...