In my opinion, Microsoft should have used the default context menu in Start Menu as well. If you right-click in Start Menu, you get a totally different context menu as shown in following image: Start Menu Context MenuĪs we know Windows 10 comes with a brand new Start Menu developed in XAML. Get Rid of Dark Context Menu in Windows 10 Taskbar 2. Restore Classic Context Menu in Explorer and Desktop Many people may like the new context menu in Windows 10. It looks like someone has applied a 3rd party skin such as WindowBlinds skin to context menus in Windows 10.īut that’s my personal opinion. On the other hand, Windows 10 context menu looks like a skinned menu. Windows 8/8.1 context menu looks very neat and clean. Microsoft has tried to make the default context menu modern style in Windows 10 but to be honest I liked the previous context menu present in Windows 8/8.1 a lot: Taskbar Icons Context Menu (Jumplist)įollowing is the default context menu which appears when you right-click on Desktop or in Windows Explorer or any other area: Notification Area (System Tray) Context Menu So without wasting time lets start the tour of context menus in Windows 10: For your reading pleasure, we are going to list all different context menus we found in Windows 10. There are so many types of context menu present in Windows 10 that you can’t even imagine.

Although Microsoft has tried to provide a consistent user interface in Windows 10 but it seems they ignored the context menu area in Windows 10. Today in this topic, I’m going to talk about that annoying thing.ĭid you know Windows 10 comes with more than 8 types of context menus (right-click menus)? Yes, you heard it right. Microsoft has made lots of changes to Windows 10 theme, icons and other areas such as Login Screen, Action Center, etc.īut there is one annoying thing in Windows 10 which irritates me a lot. Windows 10 comes with many new features, improvements and UI changes.

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