Microsoft is finally fixing one of the most annoying things in Windows: the menu
Microsoft has acknowledged that the context menu in Windows 11 is cluttered and slow. The company announced a major update focused on performance improvements and full user customization of the menu.
Anyone who has ever used Windows 11 is familiar with this frustration: you right-click to perform a simple action on a file, and you get a half-baked, slow menu that is missing many options. To access what you really need, you have to click on "Show more options," which has been one of the most common UX complaints since the system's launch. Now, it seems that the giant from Redmond is finally listening.
Microsoft admits the menu is "cluttered and slow"
In an official post, Microsoft admits that the context menu — the one that appears with a right-click in the Windows 11 File Explorer — has become "cluttered and slow," and is announcing a massive set of improvements to solve this.
The new update focuses on two main areas: performance and customization. In terms of performance, Microsoft promises that it has rewritten significant parts of the operating system's code so that the menu opens smoothly and instantly, without the annoying "lag" that sometimes freezes the File Explorer when you are trying to extract a ZIP file. Following this update, the menu will be much leaner and faster.
However, the real news is the new customization option. Until now, every application you installed (like WinRAR or Adobe) felt comfortable pushing itself into our right-click menu, resulting in complete chaos. The new update brings a feature users have been demanding for years: full menu management.
We will be able to choose exactly which applications and shortcuts will appear in the quick menu and which will remain out.
Whether you want to keep only "Copy," "Paste," and "Compress," or remove shortcuts for apps you rarely open, you will have full control.
In the first stage, the update is coming to Windows Insiders program users (in the Dev or Canary channel). Only after testing and ensuring no critical bugs are discovered will it be released to the general public in one of the next major OS updates.
