The first line of the article is "Microsoft is bringing back a File Explorer feature that many have missed but there's a chance you haven't used before."
I know a lot of people miss the feature. There are also a lot of people who read the article who have never used it before.
Sean, I think your article was targeted well and don't share the view put forward by simonmann. I had used that feature from time to time previously, but had not yet noticed it was missing with the updated Explorer (I would have eventually). I appreciated the info and am glad to hear it's coming back. Thank you!
My personal biggest gripe on a feature that's missing with Windows 11 (admittedly off topic, but it's one of my very few strong negatives with 11, which I mostly prefer to prior Windows versions): no Jump Lists for items pinned to Start. Yeah, we can use them on the Taskbar, but with about 80 frequently used apps, organized in Start folders, from the total of about 200, there are a lot more pinned to Start than I could fit on the Taskbar.
That is a constant source of extreme frustration for me, even a couple years into Windows 11 lifecycle. Ironically, there are Jump Lists for items in Start that are not pinned. That's absurd, because obviously, you pin the ones you want to access quickly, which therefore would be the ones most in need of Jump Lists (for fast access to files associated with those apps). My clumsy work-around has been to also pin some of those documents to Start, but that doesn't give me the most recent list for every frequently used app, just the few I need all the time. I hope MS brings back Jump Lists to pinned Start items in an upcoming update.
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