Home windows 11 is popping 4 in a number of months, and with Home windows 10 going out of help in lower than half a 12 months, the give attention to its successor turns into larger and larger. Many extra customers will transfer to Home windows 11 willingly or by power. Whereas Home windows 11 is now in a a lot better state than it was on launch in 2021, the working system nonetheless has a whole lot of room for enchancment.

The next 5 issues grind my gears notably arduous. They’re hardly dealbreakers—extra like annoyances—which is especially irritating when you think about that Microsoft has already killed a few of Home windows 11’s unique options (WSA and Instructed Actions, simply to call a couple of). Time and sources have been spent on questionable stuff that’s already six ft underneath, whereas so many apparent and easy options stay unaddressed.

1. Correct Darkish Mode

Fashionable components of Home windows 11 correctly help darkish mode, which, in case you ask me, appears implausible. Nevertheless, take one step apart or contact one thing from the legacy period, and you may be greeted with damaged or utterly non-existent darkish mode. I’m not speaking about stuff like Cellphone Dialer from Home windows 98 (it’s nonetheless there despite the fact that no person makes use of it). Loads of generally used UI parts don’t help darkish mode: the file properties window, the paste progress UI, the Management Panel (we’ll speak about this one later), and much more.

It isn’t nearly private preferences. Correct darkish mode is nice for accessibility, and with Microsoft placing a lot effort into making the OS extra accessible to individuals, it may have pushed somewhat more durable to make Home windows extra darkish mode-friendly.

There are third-party apps that may make things better and make basic UI parts help darkish mode. If one fanatic or a small workforce may try this, why cannot Microsoft?

2. Automated theme switching

This one builds on prime of the earlier, and it’s fairly easy. Why, in 2025, does Home windows 11 nonetheless not know how you can change darkish mode to gentle mode and vice versa on sundown/dawn or on a customized schedule? macOS, iOS, Android, and numerous Linux distros applied this years in the past, however not Microsoft. For some cause, Microsoft continues to disregard such easy issues, forcing customers to make use of third-party apps.

3. Management Panel and Settings saga

It began a very long time in the past in a galaxy far, far-off. In 2012, Home windows 8 launched the Settings app with a touch-optimized UI, and ever since, Microsoft has been attempting to merge Management Panel into the brand new factor. 13 years later, I nonetheless should open the Management Panel to allow hibernation on a brand new Home windows 11 set up.

In all equity, there’s progress. Each massive Home windows 11 replace brings some options from the legacy Management Panel to the Settings app. For instance, latest Home windows 11 preview builds introduced modernized mouse and keyboard settings. Nonetheless, the progress is slightly sluggish. I’m not even speaking about stuff like Disk Administration or Gadget Supervisor. These items don’t even have correct excessive DPI help (they give the impression of being blurry and ugly on any DPI larger than 100%) or darkish mode, to not point out any modernized appears.

Additionally, I actually hate that you simply can’t open multiple Settings window.

4. Begin menu and taskbar

I believe individuals will maintain ranting about these till the tip of the world, and for cause. My main criticism concerning the Begin menu, nevertheless, shouldn’t be about its design (we lastly have some severe progress on that entrance). It’s about the truth that I can’t make it larger with out utilizing stuff like Windhawk mods.

I’ve an enormous show and various apps pinned to the Begin menu. Why cannot I make the Begin menu a bit taller so I should not have to scroll to get to my pins? The identical goes for the “All apps” checklist. Home windows 10 allowed me to make the Begin menu as tall as my show, and I miss this small characteristic a lot.

Lastly, actually each desktop working system helps you to transfer the taskbar (or dock) to both facet of the display, however not Home windows 11, which is additional disappointing for customers with ultrawide shows or just about anybody else who simply desires to have it not on the backside of the display.

Microsoft is lastly letting us do away with the Beneficial part for good. It took the corporate 4 years to implement that; possibly in one other 4 years, we’ll lastly have the power to maneuver the taskbar round.

5. Dangerous animations and extra

That is the explanation I ended utilizing digital desktops and Job View. I simply can’t stand these uneven animations. My pc has a strong graphics card and a 144Hz monitor with adaptive refresh charge, so the shortage of horsepower is 100% not the explanation. With all that energy, the taskbar nonetheless absolutely disappears for some cause after I change desktops, Job View is laggy, thumbnail animations are half-baked, and total, the system drops frames when rendering animations very often.

In some unspecified time in the future, issues grew to become so irritating that I went to accessibility settings and turned off all animations for good. It’s higher to not have them in any respect slightly than coping with what appears like 19 FPS. I used to be instantly surprised by how a lot sooner the OS grew to become.

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There are fairly a couple of different issues I want to see addressed. For instance, the power to arrange Home windows 11 with out web and native account help; fewer advertisements throughout the working system; widgets on the desktop (there are rumors about this one, however nothing materialized thus far); some efficiency enhancements for the context menus; much less complicated characteristic rollouts; and extra.

You may argue that many of those are nitpicks and solely hardcore fanatics complain about them. However the factor is that fanatics are probably the most vocal, they usually play an enormous position in shaping the working system’s popularity on the web. Microsoft may make its most loyal followers glad, and different customers shall be extra keen to depart earlier variations behind.

What do you suppose? What would you wish to see Microsoft change in Home windows 11?