If you select an item and right-click, you’ll see a series of icons that represent the common cut, copy, paste, rename, and delete operations.

One of the most dramatic shifts away from tradition in Windows 11 File Explorer comes from the new right-click (context) menu. You can pin items to it, move them around by dragging with your mouse, and access quick shortcuts to special folders, drives, and network shares. Or you know, just use Google Chrome instead.The sidebar in each Windows 11 File Explorer window operates almost identically to the sidebar in Windows 10.

There’s even a warning by Microsoft on the page telling you that Internet Explorer support has ended and that you should at least use Microsoft Edge for a faster, safer and more modern browsing experience. Of course, while it’s a cool little Easter egg of sorts, I should definitely point out that you do not want to actually use Internet Explorer as your regular browser. I also found that simply clicking the ‘?’ icon after launching Internet Options will boot Internet Explorer, though apparently this was patched out in the latest Windows 11 dev build. It seems that this was probably an error on Microsoft’s part, as above the ‘Learn more’ option in the Manage add-ons window, there’s another option to ‘Find more toolbars and extensions’, which opens a link using your preferred browser rather than Internet Explorer.

You can even then enter the Settings of the browser and click on ‘About Internet Explorer’, and it’ll show you the Windows 11 logo along with the Internet Explorer logo below it.

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