You guys make me remember how much they removed from Win10 to give us Win11. Wow… That reminds me of a long Reddit thread where someone cataloged all (?) missing features:
Start Menu
- Live tiles replaced with boring grid of icons
- No option to choose different App Icon sizes and end less customization options available in tiles grid
No App Folders- Addressed in build 22557- No option for Named Groups
- No way to resize start menu
- No option for full screen start menu
No show more apps option (Current view displays only 18 apps without scrolling)- Ability to remove pinned apps and show all apps view only
- Not mouse friendly, lot of mouse travel for every action
- No badges in start menu
- No option to pin settings to start menu
Task Bar
Drag and drop files to running apps- Addressed in build 22557- Cannot drag and drop app icons to pin to task bar (Partially addressed in build 22557, can pin apps from desktop but not from start menu)
- No option to choose task bar location
- No option to choose task bar size
- Never Combine Labels options missing
- No option to turn system icons on/off in tray
No clock on secondary monitor- System time doesn’t show seconds
- Task bar context menu lost option to launch task manager
- No toolbars in taskbar. Cannot add Address, Links, Desktop and Custom folders to Task Bar
- No screen snip in quick actions menu
Shift + Click - No longer open new instance of an app- No option to quickly change Power Mode from task bar
- Apps can no longer customize areas of the taskbar
- Cannot view or add Calendar events from Taskbar
- People bar has been removed
- Always show all icons in notification area is missing, now each app should be enabled individually
Windows Explorer
- No refresh option in context menu, there are many instance where explorer fails to auto refresh.
- Context menu is missing many options like shortcut, send to, share with, restore previous version and 3rd party customizations
- Quick access toolbar has been removed. So no option to pin my favorite commands like copy path
Missing thumbnail previews for folders- Addressed in build 22557- No option to change file rating from properties dialog
General/Settings
Extremely difficult to change default apps- Cannot setup Windows 11 Home/Pro with local account
- Cannot setup Windows 11 Home/Pro without internet connection
- Desktop wallpaper cannot be roamed to or from device when signed in with a Microsoft account.
- Timeline has been removed
- No show windows stacked option
- No option to disable all background apps
- Win + K no longer works for Bluetooth devices, Bluetooth options also missing from quick settings
- New touch gestures don’t work well when holding tablet with two hands. Swipe from left edge has been replaced with widgets, switching apps now requires 3 finger gestures.
- When “Turn off the store application” and “Disable all apps from Microsoft store” group policies are configured, basic windows apps like notepad, mspaint, etc will not work. This also blocks users from launching cmd or powershell from Windows + X menu