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Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu

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Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory

Microsoft's making some major changes to File Explorer and the context menu in order to resolve quality issues and offer more user flexibility when you right click.

"Windows" and "quality" are rarely used positively together, something Microsoft admitted this year. Even the company's boss, Satya Nadella, noted that the company needed to "win back" its fans.

For many Windows users, the face of the operating system is File Explorer, and the application has suffered from feature overload, poorly thought-through design choices, and a general feeling of instability and sluggishness.

"What people remember most are the worst moments," wrote Microsoft, "A single freeze while renaming a file, a slow right-click, or a Home view that flashes and reloads can outweigh dozens of smooth interactions."

It is true that complaints are usually louder than compliments, although (at the risk of metaphor overload)...

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