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The one that looks best to me is the one that gives me the least amount of eyestrain and other stress symptoms, as lost productivity resulting from unnecessary headaches looks worse than poo in a blender.
Therein lies the problem. One unnecessary click is still one click too many, especially if you need to repeat it hundreds of times (which some of us do, albeit I don't expect everyone to understand why some of us do).
After the ship has sunk, do you jump into the lifeboat? Or you decide to worry that one day the lifeboat might also sink?
Well for most people actually yes. It's cleaner and the features that you don't use that often are tucked away. How often do you really need to toggle the preview or details pane? You turn it on if you need it or turn it off if you don't. Mine is on forever, and that's it. Not saying the old way is bad, but the new one isn't as well.You're tryin to tell me that's better!?!?!?
The new menu has pretty much all the features of the old one. Open, open with, cut, copy, paste, share, rename, delete, properties, add to zip, extract zip, copy path, and so on. The only few I've noticed it doesn't have are print, give access to (network share), send to, and restore previous versions. Those are all the default ones. So basically the only ones "hidden" are the ones that barely ever get used.
Okay, that's true..., to a certain degree. Perhaps it was a poor example!
Point well taken!
No, for customizing the old context menu there already exist various 3rd party utilities, scripts, and tutorials relying on Windows registry changes. So you can clean up options that you don't use, and also you can tuck away (either by moving them to the Shift + right-click menu or by moving them to one or more sub-menus) the ones that you use infrequently. This is all in addition to being able to add your own custom items/sub-menus of course. Whether you need to do any of this or not is totally irrelevant. What's relevant is that it's possible to achieve, in fact to some degree at least it's even possible to achieve with relative ease, and has been that for ages. As for what most people prefer, that's totally irrelevant also. My point is that, even though you are correct when you say that the new context menu is customizable too, not everyone wants to spend the extra time and effort it takes to port all their customizations (and the ones that are added by other programs) from the old context menu over to the new one. Only some people might be interested in that (for whatever the reason that they might have), even if it's tedious when you've done a lot of customizations (and you keep track of what those other programs are adding/removing).
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Don't worry. There's no shame to not reading before you post something. It happens to the best of us I swear! Both of these two old articles you linked each have a comments section underneath, and, in both cases, VG, the author of these old articles pointed to ExplorerPatcher in the final comments that he posted there almost four months ago. lol
