Third-party context menus feel at home on Windows

May 9, 2022 16:01 GMT  ·  By

The debut of Windows 11 came with a massive overhaul of the UI, including a new Start menu, an updated taskbar, and refreshed context menus that sometimes do more harm than good for users out there.

The new context menus, which are supposed to align with the rest of the operating system in terms of visuals, came with multiple versions in Windows 11, therefore more or less contributing to the inconsistency that has been plaguing the modern versions of Windows for quite some time.

While Microsoft has polished the experience with context menus lately, they’re far from the modern version that people expected from an operating system released in 2021.

This is why third-party tweaks come in so handy.

Enter StartAllBack.

A batch of screenshots shared on reddit recently provides us with a closer look at the context menus powered by StartAllBack, a piece of software that helps fine-tune the Windows 11 UI and therefore get access to settings that wouldn’t otherwise be available.

The new context menus come with both dark and light modes, and overall, look a lot more polished than those created by the world’s number one software company.

On the other hand, it’s clearly a good thing that users are provided with such alternatives, and this is precisely why the world of Windows is such a great community to be part of. You’re always provided with alternatives for pretty much everything, and as the saying goes, there’s an app for everything.

As for other tweaks that Microsoft might be bringing to Windows 11, we just have to wait for the next feature update that will go live later this year. This release is going to be massive, as it’ll include lots of changes and new capabilities that Microsoft has been testing as part of the Windows Insider program.