One of the new features we found when updating to Windows 11 was a new context menu. This is the menu that appears when we right-click on any file or folder, and it allows us, among other functions, to copy or paste files, open them with another program, view their properties, and more. It was a rather controversial change, as many preferred the classic menu (which is still available to use). But, today, everything is going to change.
Microsoft continues working on the 24H2 update, the new version of Windows 11 that will arrive this year. Unlike last year’s 23H2, this new version is going to be very large and will include a large number of changes and new features, starting with AI, increasingly present in all areas of computing, and continuing for small tweaks that seek to improve the user experience.
We have already seen some of the changes and tweaks that are coming to the Windows 11 interface itself. Just yesterday, for example, we saw how Microsoft was going to disable the “show desktop” button on the taskbar in favor of a button of Copilot to summon the AI. Today, we find another change that affects the appearance of the OS itself, this time, in the context menu.
Insider users are already receiving the changes that, in the future, will be part of the next 24H2 update of the operating system. And, the latest update that has reached all these users, build 26058, introduces a very interesting novelty.
When opening the context menu, we can see that the “copy, cut, paste, delete, etc.” buttons have been moved. Depending greatly on the location of the menu in proportion to the screen, these buttons may appear at the top or bottom of the menu. But, what Microsoft has done now has been make menus bigger and add text with the action of each one.
In this way, we can be much clearer about what each action does, avoiding having to think about which button we should click.
Other changes in the new Insider build
In addition to this quite important change, the new build 26058 has also brought other very interesting new features. One of them is a pointer indicatorwhich allows us to more easily see the location of the mouse at all times, perfect for those users who have vision problems.
A new notification counter has also been added to the widget panel to keep up to date with everything we have pending there. And finally, Microsoft has eliminated the classic voice recognition system, WSR, to replace it with the new Voice Access. This, added to the “sudo” command of the previous version, and the arrival of Copilot to Notepad, of the previous versions, make it clear that the next Windows update is going to arrive in a big way.