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 will get used to finally, and I can do lots on each of them. Is my firm issuing Dell laptops? Wonderful by me. Somebody I do know is shopping for a brand new MacBook Professional and needs to supply the older one to me? I will take it.

Whereas I could also be adept at utilizing both of the working techniques and mixing units throughout producers, I do nonetheless take pleasure in my Apple merchandise. However I primarily use Home windows for work — so I spend quite a 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 started 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 think about altering them.

Do not hover over it — it could 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 may be the panel menu. In case you occur to maneuver your cursor over the left aspect, the large widgets menu pops up. I am not simply saying it is large for results sake, both.

It takes up almost all the display when it pops up. In fact, you possibly can customise the widgets panel and make it work higher for you. However it’ll nonetheless take up a ton of space. Whenever 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 means so that you can transfer the widgets panel is to maneuver all the taskbar. Whereas I do not love the brand new taskbar, I do not wish to transfer all the factor both.

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Job supervisor is extra convoluted than environment friendly

There’s a lot happening with out a lot clarification

Job supervisor is a means so that you can get into the nitty-gritty of the processes that your laptop is presently doing. In Home windows 11, it opens in the event you maintain down CTRL + SHIFT + ESC. If one thing is working slowly, you are in a position to finish the duty, which can assist your laptop address the truth that it was taking a very long time and regain its velocity. It may be onerous to pinpoint precisely what goes improper in case your laptop is working sluggish.

However that does not imply that you have to be poking round, because the improper click on can do harm to your laptop. Why does not Home windows clarify extra about Job Supervisor? If it was one thing that might assist your laptop run extra successfully, why is there not a neater solution to get to it than opening up Job 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 means 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. In case you obtain one other browser, you possibly can set that one to be your foremost selection. However any time you open up Microsoft Edge once more, it’ll 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 based mostly on the kind of file to make use of in a sure scenario.

Go to Settings and click on Apps. Select Default Apps, and you will see a listing of them. You’ll be able to both seek for an app or lookup a file sort within the bar on the high. In case you select an app, it reveals you what recordsdata it may well deal with.

However, right here is the place Home windows 11 makes it onerous. You’ll be able to’t simply choose all types of file varieties and make an app the default one for that. You must select every file sort individually and make a default app for it. For example you could have Photoshop and wish it to be the default app to make use of .jpeg, .png, .tiff, and extra. You must go into every file sort individually and set it. Whereas that is one thing you solely should do as soon as, it is a ache. Plus, if you wish to change the app, it’s a must to do it over again.

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Make it extra streamlined, please

Home windows 10 had the Motion Heart, which was modern and, notably, easy. It was a central hub that confirmed you fast motion buttons and notifications that clicking on would carry 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 plenty of solely open up extra menus.

My laptop computer has a touchscreen, so tapping by way 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. Severely? That is the other of useful — particularly in the event you’re like me and always 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 Mild takes high billing after I by no means use it. That one’s private, however nonetheless.

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Why aren’t easy issues really 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 is just not on the Begin Menu. It is within the fast settings menu on the correct, 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.

You must open up the record of your entire apps to customise the Begin Menu. When you click on All on the high of the Begin Menu the place the apps are pinned, it reveals you the choices you could have. You’ll be able to both Unpin to Begin or Pin to Begin by right-clicking on an app within the record.

As soon as you have modified the record of apps, you possibly can 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 high of each other to create a folder, which is useful.

You too can personalize your Begin Menu’s configuration in the event you do not just like the structure of the default one. However that is not obtainable in the event you’re within the Begin Menu. You must 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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