As has almost always happened throughout Microsoft’s history, when a version of Windows works very well, as was the case with Windows Xp and Windows 7users are very reluctant to update to new versions until they have no choice when official support from Microsoft ends.
It already happened with Windows Vista, successor to Windows XP, and it happened with Windows 8.x, successor to Windows 7. This is the same thing that has also happened to Windows 11. However, the problem here is not that Windows 11 is bad, nor much less, but users have encountered a design change that, 3 years after its implementation, is still a problem for many users.
To this we have to add the hardware requirements of Windows 11, requirements that have left millions of PCs that are currently managed by Windows 10 out of the market, but that is another topic that we are not going to talk about in this article. In addition to the changes in the start menu and the taskbar, we have to add the important design change that the File Browser.
Microsoft had the brilliant idea of reducing the number of options in the context menu to only show those that, in its opinion, are the most useful on a daily basis, prioritizing only the essential functions and grouping the rest in a submenu.
In this way, it is much easier for the user to interact with the browser. While it is true that, through third-party applications, we can recover the Windows 10 design, it is not really necessary since Windows includes an option that allows you to recover the old design of the Windows 10 file explorer.
How to use Windows 11 file explorer with Windows 10 layout
Unlike other methods, where you have to modify the Windows registry or install third-party applications, Windows 11 allows you to recover the old file explorer with everything that implies, that is, with the same options that are shown in the ribbon. options., showing larger icons along with their respective description instead of using only icons to show the available options.
It is important to note that the Windows 11 explorer will continue to use the same layout. With the steps we show you below, we can open the Windows 11 explorer with the Windows 10 layout. If we want to use it by default in Windows, we just have to automate the process so that, when executed, it automatically shows the old layout.
The only thing we have to do to show the old Windows 10 file explorer design in Windows 11 is access the control Panel of Windows, which we can access from the Windows search box. Next, we click on Security system.
Finally, within this section, click on Windows tools. At that moment, the old browser will be displayed with the options available in this section. From the left column, we can access all the folders and drives that we have stored on the computer as we can see in the following image. When you click on these, the explorer design will be that of Windows 10.
