Dumbing down of Windows Win 11 Style

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I’m on the Communications Committee of our CCC community and we’re rolling out an App/Website to communicate with our residents. When we set this up on a Desktop or Laptop we create a UserID/PW, save the PW in the browser (no big secrets here) then we create a shortcut on the desktop so it’s just a double click away. Here’s the instructions I created for our committee members to use to create this shortcut.

As you can see this method works just fine on all major Windows browsers and even on those Fruity machines! That is until until Win 11! I had my first experience with trying to do this on a new Win 11 machine today and it just wouldn’t work. I couldn’t drag it to the desktop or taskbar.

Just why this no longer works in Win 11 I’ll never know seems like a stupid “update/feature” to me.

 

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RG

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Drag and drop to taskbar/desktop was added in the latest insider build:

Changes and Improvements

[Taskbar]

Drag and drop is now supported on the Windows 11 taskbar. Quickly drag and drop files between app windows, by hovering over apps in the taskbar to bring their windows to the foreground. Try attaching a file to an Outlook e-mail by dragging it and hovering over the Outlook icon in the taskbar to bring the window to the foreground. Once in the foreground, drop your file into the e-mail to attach it. You can also customize your taskbar with your favorite apps from Start’s All apps list by dragging and dropping over the taskbar to pin them. You can also drag and drop to the desktop via “Show desktop” at the very right corner of the taskbar.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557

Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.2361 + Microsoft 365 + Edge

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b,

This is not about D&D files but rather creating shortcuts by dragging a URL to the desktop.

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I just tried this on my Win 11 Pro PC build 22000.527 and it worked just fine. I dragged the address of this topic to the desktop, let go, and a shortcut was created.

Note: I could not drop on the taskbar. That supposedly is coming in the not too distant future.

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Joe,

Thanks! I’m sorry to say I didn’t take the time to delve into the Win 11 version on the machine, although I suspect it was Home, as we were in the middle of an installation event and I had a line of people waiting.

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RG

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RetiredGeek wrote:

b,

This is not about D&D files but rather creating shortcuts by dragging a URL to the desktop.

… and taskbar?

RetiredGeek wrote:

I couldn’t drag it to the desktop or taskbar.

Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.2361 + Microsoft 365 + Edge

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I just tried it on my Windows 11 Pro and it worked.  I didn’t try the Taskbar, either.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We were all once "Average Users". We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems, we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

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Given the way all manufacturers cling to their “intellectual property” I’d kind of hoped there would be a “desktop style” setting where you could select the interface of the desktop environment you preferred to work in rather than ditching large chunks of it (and the control panel options behind it) at each version. For example I know nobody probably actually uses timedate.cpl, or has even tried to use it to realise the option for the second clock isn’t quite working any more, but one day something will break and not everyone will know where the server the time is retrieved from or similar is set.. but the fact it’s still there (for now) means I guess Microsoft might eventually finish their redesign of the interface and get rid of the old ways just in time for EOL (I’m on W10 21H2, no TPM.. can’t be bothered..)

I was going to follow that with an “I guess I know why” news theme link to the wayback machine but it’s odd, you get two pages when you look for http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981298.html

Now I’m wondering if there’s a post area here for bizarre..

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Hey Y’all,

Well it appears as I was the one dumbed-down!

I had the chance to try the same thing on two other Win11 machines today and it worked perfectly.

Don’t know why it wouldn’t work on the first machine but I don’t know who’s machine it was so I can’t get back to it to investigate.

 

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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