Microsoft to Hide Multiple Folder Options from Windows File Explorer

[chrcoluk]

I dont use the angry emote often, but on this occasion I did.

Its the old "telemetry shows only power users use these settings, so we will make them all do everything the same as the masses".

The code is already there to support it, so there is no real benefit to changing it, for now it may still be configurable via the registry but I wouldnt be surprised if they move to hard coding it in the future.

Its another step to making the OS more like a mobile OS.

Out of the listed options, I change drive letters to before drive name, adjust sharing wizard and the ntfs colour option.

Is there an app for Windows that does the same as the old TweakUI, the one from the nineties, did? It exposed many UI settings that MS didn't (but were otherwise changeable through registry editing). Nothing more and nothing less than that.

Winaerotweaker. This will likely add all those settings now they moving to registry only, and it can already control some of them like drive letters.

Also the dude documents everything he adds, so no fake/obsolete stuff in there.

There is also the power toys app in the store, but I am not a fan of it. Seems to rely on a background service.

 

[Bruno_O]

As a Windows admin, I'm not that picky

I liked all Windows versions, including the hated Vista and 8/8.1

With that in mind, my opinion of Win11 is that it's objectively shit

 

[dicobalt]

I think Microsoft needs to hire some regular users to tell them when they make a decision that will be hated.

 

[Athlonite]

I don't see why all the hate for Win 11. Once you turn off all the shit you hate it's a pretty good OS between WinAeroTweaker and GPEDIT.msc and Revo Uninstaller it takes about 10 mins to get it right

 

[AusWolf]

I don't see why all the hate for Win 11. Once you turn off all the shit you hate it's a pretty good OS between WinAeroTweaker and GPEDIT.msc and Revo Uninstaller it takes about 10 mins to get it right

I don't need any of that for Win 10. If you need external programs to set things right in your OS, it means it's a shit OS.

 

[Athlonite]

I don't need any of that for Win 10. If you need external programs to set things right in your OS, it means it's a shit OS.

there's still shit to turn off or remove in Win 10 too so it's not that perfect and I use winaerotweaker and revo uninstaller because I'm a lazy bastard and they make it easier to do instead of muddling through regedit and windows own add/remove programs won't allow you to remove Edge and other shitty programs completely

 

[watzupken]

MS may think they are cleaning up, and simplifying the UI, but Windows have over the years been going the opposite way in my opinion. You have a clean UI sitting on top of a legacy foundation, and they are really hiding things and making it difficult for people to find what was once an easy to use UI. For example, when you right click, you find all the avaliable options in the popup. Now you need to click a more options just to make it look "cleaner" but pointless step. There are other questionable UI and feature changes. For me, all MS is doing is just making me think hard about eliminating all the Windows based devices, which I have been gradually reducing over the last 2 years. I don't really game now, so there is no strong reason to stick with Windows now.

 

[AusWolf]

there's still shit to turn off or remove in Win 10 too so it's not that perfect and I use winaerotweaker and revo uninstaller because I'm a lazy bastard and they make it easier to do instead of muddling through regedit and windows own add/remove programs won't allow you to remove Edge and other shitty programs completely

True, but as long as they take up minimal space and don't run in the background, they don't bother me. Also, in Win 10 Pro, you can set the policy to only send anonymous debug info to Microsoft, which I'm also fine with. There is no such option in Win 11 as far as I'm aware.