



For example 95 was horrible (tolerated at best even with OSR2), 98 was bad but 98SE was pretty good for the time, 2k was great, XP was somewhere between horrible and a huge joke on release but by SP3 it was decent-ish, Vista had some bugs on release but most of the problems came from hardware vendors screwing people over, Win7 was great but it was only really Vista with a new taskbar and a now mature hardware ecosystem (and not all software defaulting to running as admins), etc. It is not entirely gone, just much more difficult to enable.Ĭlick to expand.You can freely mix the release orders any way you want, skipping entire versions, to make the pattern hold up. Many of these are legacy settings that have been around for ages and are not being regularly used by people on Windows 11." However, there are some promising signs, as these settings can still be accessed via registry keys. The company explains the reason for these changes: "We are removing a handful of old settings under Folder Options in File Explorer as part of an effort to clean up the number of settings for File Explorer. The following will no longer appear under "Folder Options": Hide Folder Merge conflict Always show icons, never thumbnails Display file icon on thumbnails Display file type information on Folder tips Hide protected OS files Show drive letters Show popup description for Folder and Desktop items Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color Use sharing wizard. However, Microsoft developers have released a preview build for insiders that removes some folder options from File Explorer. Microsoft's File Explorer for Windows 11 serves as an interactive tool to explore files and access their locations. However, the latest build preview came with a big change, primarily targeting the File Explorer. Microsoft published its Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23481 a few weeks ago.
