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    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Ohh not totally for dumdums. The design of the old context menu is one of Explorer's greatest weaknesses.

    When you right click that menu, every context application DLL listed in the registry needs to load. So if you have an end user with a bunch of context apps. mp3tag, smartrename,scan for viruses or even worse some dll that needs a network resource to init. that context menu can take 5-10 seconds to load on an old encumbered system.

    9/10 they just want to right click and open with or rename, so there's a cheap menu with no dll loading and an option to load them anyway.

    I feel you, I set my win11 desktop to show the old style too, but the idea behind it isn't bad.

    [–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Wouldn't the better idea have been to load specific DLLs on activation of a function then? Dicking over users that know how to use their OS for the sake of digital slobs seems unfair.

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

    There's a million different design problems in all of Windows. There's probably a million better ways to fix the problem.

    I'm just saying that what they did isn't without merit. And they did leave you the option to turn it off.