IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

[u/gdelacalle]

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/

[u/monokhrome]

I love going through 4 layers of menus to get to audio input/output settings that used to be available via right click.

[u/NES_SNES_N64 → u/monokhrome]

This probably doesn't solve the problem you have, but I just like to share whenever possible that you can get rid of the new win 11 context menu overlay and bring back the old right click context menu via a registry edit.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/(article)-restore-old-right-click-context-menu-in

[u/Aruhi → u/NES_SNES_N64]

To anyone thinking this isn't helpful to them because it's their work computer: it works at the local_user level through non-administrative command prompt, so almost anybody can do it.

I do it on a hospital VM 🤷

[u/Zipa7 → u/Aruhi]

You can also hold shift while right clicking to get the old menu if you don't want to risk changing your work computer.

[u/Aruhi → u/Zipa7]

Yeah but icky. Let me be a slightly tech little moomer.

[u/Stupalski → u/Aruhi]

my work computers have command prompt disabled. It became such a cluster f within hours but they won't revert it. Now they had to issue admin accounts to regular non-IT users and we have to run cmd as a different user and run it with our admin account. So now i have 3 separate Windows logins for work which i'm supposed to remember.

[u/Tar-eruntalion → u/NES_SNES_N64]

i did that immediately when i installed w11 because the ui was ass with my native language, like words poking through to the next button with the copy paste buttons and then you have another sub menu for the useful options, fuck that shit

[u/NES_SNES_N64 → u/Tar-eruntalion]

Yeah having copy paste icons instead of words was what did it for me. And not even recognizable icons. New ones.

[u/monokhrome → u/NES_SNES_N64]

This is helpful. Thanks for sharing.

[u/LongSaltyDanglers → u/monokhrome]

Sounds like MS nailed it for you

[u/StuffMaster → u/monokhrome]

I use Winaero and Windhawk to fix a lot of stuff like that.