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File Explorer in Windows 11 does not show text under buttons. This is confusing for older people.
- And yet another voice supporting this proposal. I have no idea why, ever, an "icons and text" display option is not available, even if it's not the default. I've been using Windows since it first hit the street, and I still "read the text" more quickly than I recognize the icons for certain things.
Please bring "icons and text" back!
Please bring "icons and text" back!
Adding insult to injury, see this webpage: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/get-back-windows-10-ribbon-ui-windows-11
The first "solution" (it's a great workaround, but so far I cannot find a way to make it stick) allows you to get back to what is, for all intents and purposes, the Windows 10 style of ribbons in File Explorer with the click of a button. Clearly this could also be handled by a setting that the end user should be able to toggle on to make this the default way that File Explorer appears.
It's really frustrating to know that the actual ability to do this exists, at the click of a button, in special circumstances and yet there is no way for the user to simply select this as the default via a setting (or even a registry hack. The one that used to work under Version 21H2 doesn't work in 22H2).