file explorer left pane background context menu - Extremely Inconvenient!

Do you know that there is
file explorer left pane background context menu ?
( my abbreviation : FELPBC menu )

It(=FELPBC menu) is a popup menu in the red box of screenshot 1 :

screenshot 1 :


It is very, very inconvenient to access FELPBC menu.
FELPBC menu can be accessed by right clicking
the background(=empty space) of the left pane of file explorer.
So for in the state like screenshot 2, that has no background to click,
we cannot access FELPBC menu.

screenshot 2 :


We must scroll-down to get some background.
If there are a lot of things in the left pane, it takes a month to scroll-down.

screenshot 3 :


Also the background is very small.
Only red-boxed region is right-clickable.

screenshot 4:



After a difficult process, we see FELPBC menu.

screenshot 5 :



Am I the only one who finds this process inconvenient?
I'd like to hear your opinions.

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P.S.

Please also note that FELPBC menu is functionally irreplaceable in some sense.

I guess there are many people who do not use the FELPBC menu often.
However, it is important for temporarily resolving(=a workaround) a shortcut bug in Windows 11.
And I found that FELPBC menu is the only working workaround for that bug.
So to explain the current situation, even the workaround is extremely inconvenient.

I will explain what the shortcut bug is, later.
Briefly, it is the bug about mismatch of the folder locations of the left pane vs right pane.
(Even though the related settings were done well)

I figured out at what moment shortcut bug happens,
and explaining the whole process is very complicated.

That's normal, it's supposed to be there.

Thank you for your interest.

Do you think that FELPBC menu (explained in post #1) is irreplaceable ?

Especially, the Expand to current folder menu.

screenshot :

I was unaware your new acronym menu was there. It may be helpful to others, but I can't see that I would ever use it, more so because I'm a creature of habit than anything else. I do my computer mo-jo-ing without thinking about how I do it. There's so much now in Windows that I never use and don't even know about. Good to know we have a FELPBC though.

Right click just above 'This PC' is another area,

lugran said:

File Explorer left pane background context menu - Extremely Inconvenient!

Click to expand...

I set my preference once and never look at it again!

lugran said:

Thank you for your interest.

Do you think that FELPBC menu (explained in post #1) is irreplaceable ?

Especially, the Expand to current folder menu.

Click to expand...

I wasnt aware of that context menu, so thank you for making me aware.

How does this differ from the Navigation pane settings in Folder Options > View? That's where I've always go to change these settings.
The same items are ticked (or not in) both menus on my PC.

We had a thread about this about a few months (I think) ago. One of the members was asking the same thing
and got the same responses. This menu has been there since I can remember. That's how I choose what I want
to see in Navigation Pane. This is a set and forget for me as well.