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File Explorer in Windows 11 does not show text under buttons. This is confusing for older people.
I provide tech support to older consumers in their homes, teaching, streamlining, upgrading and assisting with Windows, Android, iOS and Amazon Fire (tablet) devices. Most of my clients are aged 60-8...
- 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!
I find there are normally two types of people - visual or textual. Some (mainly older) search for and read text (often quickly) but others (usually younger) quickly scan for images they recognise. Those are the ones that remember a "cog" or "gear" usually means "Settings" and probably know that a triangle means play and a square means stop. However, those (usually older) who literally use technology with fear of breaking it or doing something that deems their device useless will often panic - and they require both icons and text! Microsoft is not Apple or Google and for years the Microsoft Designers and Developers have catered for everyone. I do not understand why a "clean interface" such as that of Windows 11 cannot include text!
Mixed news, according to this article (with screen capture) some text labels are supposed to have come back on right click menus: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2472385/new-features-in-windows-11-2024-update.html
They're certainly not back in main File Explorer nor is there a tweak one can make in Options to make text labels appear.
I've never warmed to the new Windows 11 context menu, so one tweak I have done is to get the old-style full context menu to appear on right click, so I have almost no icons and all text.
The "icons plus text" should be the default, universally, with an option to go "icons only."