Windows 10: Microsoft shows off new Windows 10 UI for flyout and context menu

According to various reports and leaks, Windows 10 Sun Valley upgrade is set to bring back ’rounded corners’ from the days of Windows 7 and Vista. As part of the redesign, top-level UIs will be ditching sharp corners for rounded corners, representing a change of aesthetic for Windows 10.

Back in the old days, Microsoft used both rounded and sharp corners for top-level UIs in Windows, but the rounded corners and aero effects were abandoned in favour of sharp corners and Fluent Design.

Microsoft is now considering a new interface for the flyout menus (DatePicker, TimePicker, etc) in Windows apps. The new visual update for the flyout menu aims to deliver an “x-ray” kind of effect where the colour is swapped in when the wheels come to rest.



“This lets us do a colour swap dynamically even during the scrolling, which gets a really smooth looking “x-ray” kind of effect,” Microsoft noted in a proposal posted on Github. As of January 21, the proposal seems to have been approved.



In another Github proposal, Microsoft highlighted the ’rounded corner’ changes coming to Windows 10 menus within the modern apps and settings. Microsoft intends to update the padding/margins for menus with additional spacing between items.

As you can see in the below screenshot, Microsoft is also adding rounded corners on menu items and the menus will still support Fluent Design.



Based on these mock-up screenshots, it is clear that the tech giant is betting big on ’rounded corners’ to change the interface of the OS and return to design style previously seen during Windows 7 and Vista eras.

In addition to these app menus, Microsoft is also planning to ditch sharp corners for Windows 10 app windows. For example, Settings, Music, Photos, and other inbox apps could soon ditch traditional sharp corners for rounded corners.

Windows 10’s new user interface improvements will begin showing up in preview builds in the next few months, but the upgrade won’t be released for the public until the second half of 2021.

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Problem with New Context Menu

The option to add a new Rich Text File seems to have disappeared from my Context Menu and I'm not sure why.

I'm not computer savvy, but after a bit of Googling I read how you can add and delete options from the New Context Menu though the Registry Editor. When I went to check it the .rtf folder under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT still has it's ShellNew folder so I'm not
sure what the issue is or if perhaps there's something wrong with it. I also found a tool to easily enable/disable file types on the New Context Menu, and .rtf is listed along with everything else and checked off as "enabled" but for some reason is not showing
up, even after I tried disabling and enabling it a couple of times. This is extremely frustrating as that's the file type I use the most.

Any suggestions as to what the problem is or how to fix it?

 

can someone help me combine these two .reg into a context menu flyout?

Hello @Brink,

What are the main differences [ included / excluded ] between your REG file and the one here =>
can someone help me combine these two .reg into a context menu flyout?

Thanks in advance..

 

Program not showing up in 'Open With' context menu

I tried this a few months ago and failed after a lot of tweaking in the regedit. Probably this guide Remove Programs from Open with Context Menu in Windows and some other where it said how to add. I gave up.

Now I have a new computer with a fresh Windows 10, and is at it again. But this time I got surprised, as everything was already as it should in regedit. It was squeaky clean in regedit with only the three apps I wanted to show up in the menu.

The problem: It doesn't show up. Not in the "Right Click > Context Menu > Open With"-list.
But (and here's the interesting part and perhaps why no-one seems to have succeeded adding to the list with the regedit method) it does show up in the open button under the Home ribbon-menu on top.

See pictures.


Regedit, path: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.mp4\OpenWith List



MPC-HC, VLC, and DeoVR are all there.


Context menu (I've uninstalled Windows Media Player and Microsoft Photos):



DeoVR isn't there, as it should be.


Ribbon menu:



There DeoVR are!



It's quite confusing, as it looks like they are identical, like both menus are taking information from the same sources. With both having the store-link and the choose another app option. When WMP and photos was installed they came up on both menus as well. It's almost like it's a bug in Windows 10.


Do you have any clue how to fix this?


On Windows 10 Home 20H2 (OS Build 19042.630), but I just updated, plus had the same issue on another PC about 2 months ago with another version.