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Windows 11 start menu button right click stopped working

Neelfy

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As per tile. Just noticed that right clicking on the windows 11 start menu button now does nothing whereas before it should bring menu up for cmd, PowerShell, search etc…..

I have tried various suggestions found but birthing works. And ideas?

Thanks
 
Windows 11 is so perfect it doesnt have mistakes in it at all.

Yeah Right

Winfix is a good util to have on hand for 10/11
 
Windows 11 is so perfect it doesnt have mistakes in it at all.

Yeah Right

Winfix is a good util to have on hand for 10/11
I hear ya. Product development at Microsoft has gotten pretty shoddy lately. Laying off testing staff to boost the bottom line? That only works until you piss people off enough and they start looking for alternatives. This ain't the house that Bill Gates built anymore.
 
**coughs** Bill Gates let me see, (flicks through the anals of history for this empire builder) made Billions on WIndows 95 the apitomy of superb, until he got caught with his hands in everyones PC with driver files never being installed (bracketed files in the driver tab of item properties) and of course lets not forget the classic MSCORE.dll that he made his tech team a household name. They turn up to fix your PC copy the MSCORE.dll file from a floppy to your Windows folder charge you $150 and leave. If only you knew the file was buried in the zip installation folders.
Same in 98, 98SE, Me and then the finale of pretending not to know about it, the guy that wrote windows. Best version ever was 3.1 at least it didnt crash or cry off if it hit a bad bit of code.

I love Bill Gates such an honest man.
 
**coughs** Bill Gates let me see, (flicks through the anals of history for this empire builder) made Billions on WIndows 95 the apitomy of superb, until he got caught with his hands in everyones PC with driver files never being installed (bracketed files in the driver tab of item properties) and of course lets not forget the classic MSCORE.dll that he made his tech team a household name. They turn up to fix your PC copy the MSCORE.dll file from a floppy to your Windows folder charge you $150 and leave. If only you knew the file was buried in the zip installation folders.
Same in 98, 98SE, Me and then the finale of pretending not to know about it, the guy that wrote windows. Best version ever was 3.1 at least it didnt crash or cry off if it hit a bad bit of code.

I love Bill Gates such an honest man.
True but in comparison to Satya Nadella, he is a saint. As bad as Bill and Monkey Boy were, at least they had the end user in mind. Satya's goal seems to wring every last buck he can out of Microsoft with no regards to the sustainability of the company not satisfying the end user. First he tried to turn everything Microsoft into a recurring revenue subscription based offering including operating systems. That was the last time Big Bill intervened in Microsoft Business at the boardroom level and pumped the brakes on that one.
Personally Sayta represents current prevailing corporate leadership et.al in general and doesn't know or care that much about the end products, just adding up those beans. He has his development team push out these glitzy yet not really useful for the most part features to Windows 11 which in reality is no more than Windows 10 with a bunch of lipstick and the dreaded TPM enforcement along with some new I/O headaches. The glitz wows the know nothing shareholders while TPM enforcement placates the hardware manufacturers by forcing users to purchase new compatible systems. All the while for the most part further alienating the bread and butter of the company, the home user. Don't get me wrong Microsoft generates most of its current revenue from Office and it's related products. Particularly since we have transitioned to a remote workplace which as luck would have it continues to distance Apple computers further from mainstream.
I have some really bad news for Microsoft. In the four fairly large corp. IT environments I have been part of since Windows 11 was announced little to no thought or effort has been directed toward a transition to a Windows 11 environment despite my urging. Even big network hardware manufacturers like Cisco are still presenting a well that's in the future, let's deal with current problems. I am wondering how Microsoft may respond by a huge pushback en masse by the current corp. user base when they are confronted with an enforced upgrade. Wasn't it mentioned that Windows 10 would be the last numeric upgrade for Windows after it was introduced? For that matter it's been over a 2 decades since that promised fie system upgrade promised for Windows users. ReFS has been around since Server 2012 hit the market It's far superior to NTFS which is entering its 3rd decade of existence (1993).
You probably should love Big Bill. If it wasn't for him there would be no Microsoft. The good or bad news is he is too busy padding his fortune selling potatoes to McDonalds yet he still continues to show some concern about the health of his child. Maybe the board needs another visit.
 
What would the world be without Microsoft.

Still there Linux would be all over the place instead or even worse thought so would Apple <Shudders>
 
Apple is for all intents and purposes Linux with a custom GUI when you get down to it.
I don't know how many members here remember the early days of Unix when it was tentatively backed by a consortium of major hardware manufacturers of the time. It turned into a gigantic pissing match as each member proposed changes that would favor their particular system or customer base. It got so bad the group was dissolved and Linux was left up to open source mainly volunteers to start it's development. It was very radical at the time.
Outside of some proprietary operating systems, the world was stuck with 16 bit MS DOS at best which was pretty radical to 8 bit CP/M popular at the time. Ubuntu was the most popular GUI hung on Linux but even then there is too much disagreement on a proper GUI and what it should include.
Microsoft has us by the you know what's owing to the fact they keep the universal full-featured Microsoft Office tied tightly to Windows. You as individual users may strongly disagree as that being the worth of Windows but believe me, Office is the moneymaker in the environments willing to shell out big dollars.
 

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