These terrible Home windows 11 options are the bane of my existence

As I’ve written right here a number of occasions earlier than, I’ve extensively used each macOS and Windows in my private {and professional} lives. To me, an working system is simply one thing I am going to get used to finally, and I can do rather a lot on each of them. Is my firm issuing Dell laptops? Effective by me. Somebody I do know is shopping for a brand new MacBook Professional and needs to supply the older one to me? I am going to take it.

Whereas I could also be adept at utilizing both of the working programs and mixing units throughout producers, I do nonetheless get pleasure from my Apple merchandise. However I primarily use Home windows for work — so I spend a whole lot of time with it every day. I beforehand had older Windows laptops that ran Home windows 10 and actually appreciated most of the options on it.

As soon as I needed to adapt to Windows 11, I made the swap and commenced to study what precisely all went with it. After utilizing Home windows 11 for some time, I can confidently say that there are some options of it that bug me to no finish. Excuse me whereas I run down my greatest points with Home windows 11 and why Microsoft wants to contemplate altering them.

Do not hover over it — it might not go away

The duty bar in Home windows 11 modified, because the icons and begin menu shifted to the middle of the bar. Over to the left now, as a substitute of the Home windows menu button, there’s the panel menu. If you happen to occur to maneuver your cursor over the left aspect, the large widgets menu pops up. I am not simply saying it is enormous for results sake, both.

It takes up practically your entire display when it pops up. After all, you’ll be able to customise the widgets panel and make it work higher for you. However it’s going to nonetheless take up a ton of space. If you open it for the primary time, it simply has a bunch of random issues like MSN information, the climate, a calendar, and extra. It is a hodgepodge that’s begging you to alter it. However, the one approach so that you can transfer the widgets panel is to maneuver your entire taskbar. Whereas I do not love the brand new taskbar, I do not wish to transfer your entire factor both.

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Process supervisor is extra convoluted than environment friendly

There’s a lot occurring with out a lot clarification

Process supervisor is a approach so that you can get into the nitty-gritty of the processes that your pc is at present doing. In Home windows 11, it opens should you maintain down CTRL + SHIFT + ESC. If one thing is working slowly, you are capable of finish the duty, which may help your pc deal with the truth that it was taking a very long time and regain its velocity. It may be exhausting to pinpoint precisely what goes mistaken in case your pc is working gradual.

However that does not imply that you need to be poking round, because the mistaken click on can do injury to your pc. Why would not Home windows clarify extra about Process Supervisor? If it was one thing that might assist your pc run extra successfully, why is there not a better strategy to get to it than opening up Process supervisor and discovering Effectivity Mode and turning it on? Why is not there a shortcut to this, as there are 9,000 different shortcuts and buttons to press in Home windows 11 — most of which I do not want.

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Assigning a default app takes approach too many steps

Simply let me select one thing and keep it up

We have in all probability all been requested if we wish to make one net browser the pc’s default one. For instance, with Home windows 11, Microsoft Edge is the built-in default browser. If you happen to obtain one other browser, you’ll be able to set that one to be your principal selection. However any time you open up Microsoft Edge once more, it’s going to ask you if you wish to make it the default browser once more. That is small potatoes in comparison with altering default apps that are not browsers, as you are setting them primarily based on the kind of file to make use of in a sure state of affairs.

Go to Settings and click on Apps. Select Default Apps, and you will see a listing of them. You may both seek for an app or lookup a file kind within the bar on the prime. If you happen to select an app, it reveals you what information it might deal with.

However, right here is the place Home windows 11 makes it exhausting. You may’t simply choose all types of file sorts and make an app the default one for that. It’s important to select every file kind individually and make a default app for it. As an instance you might have Photoshop and need it to be the default app to make use of .jpeg, .png, .tiff, and extra. It’s important to go into every file kind individually and set it. Whereas that is one thing you solely must do as soon as, it is a ache. Plus, if you wish to change the app, it’s important to do it another time.

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Make it extra streamlined, please

Home windows 10 had the Motion Middle, which was modern and, notably, simple. It was a central hub that confirmed you fast motion buttons and notifications that clicking on would convey you to precisely what you wanted. Microsoft removed it in Home windows 11 and changed it with what looks like half-thought-out fast setting menu choices and lots of solely open up extra menus.

My laptop computer has a touchscreen, so tapping by means of these layers feels infinite. Take the Wi-Fi button, for instance. Tapping it turns Wi-Fi off as a substitute of exhibiting obtainable networks. Critically? That is the other of useful — particularly should you’re like me and continuously switching networks at espresso outlets or on the go. And whereas I get that these fast settings are customizable, it nonetheless bugs me that Evening Gentle takes prime billing after I by no means use it. That one’s private, however nonetheless.

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Why aren’t easy issues truly pinned?

For years, the Begin Menu was the place to go to get something you wanted on a Home windows laptop computer. However, that is not the case anymore. Home windows 11 simply pins some however not all of the issues that you just want within the Begin Menu — I’m floored that Settings just isn’t on the Begin Menu. It is within the fast settings menu on the appropriate, but it surely’s all the time been on the Begin Menu. It is a pure intuition of mine to go to the Begin Menu and search for Settings there, so I needed to personally customise my Begin Menu and add it.

It’s important to open up the listing of your entire apps to customise the Begin Menu. When you click on All on the prime of the Begin Menu the place the apps are pinned, it reveals you the choices you might have. You may both Unpin to Begin or Pin to Begin by right-clicking on an app within the listing.

As soon as you’ve got modified the listing of apps, you’ll be able to transfer them round by dragging and dropping them or by right-clicking and selecting Transfer to Entrance (which simply looks like a waste of time as a result of it will not put it precisely the place you need it). Home windows does allow you to drag icons on prime of each other to create a folder, which is useful.

You can even personalize your Begin Menu’s configuration should you do not just like the structure of the default one. However that is not obtainable should you’re within the Begin Menu. It’s important to go to Settings, then Personalization, then Begin Menu. It annoys me that I can not simply change it whereas I am within the Begin Menu.

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