09/11/2023

[Windows 11] Default show more options explorer right click menu (old UI behavior)

One change with Windows 11 is that the right click menu in Explorer was replaced with some condensed version where the old behavior is hidden behind a "Show more options" entry. This makes some actions slower to find and quite annoying, for example 7-zip or Notepad++

To revert it to the nicer old UI you can delete the value of this registry key (for example via regedit):

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InProcServer32

Key (Default)(its old value should be C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.FileExplorer.dll, just remove it)

You then need to restart explorer process or logout and login again or reboot the computer for this change to be applied.

06/11/2023

[Tampermonkey] Disable Bing Chat search integrations

When using Bing search there are multiple places that integrate the Chat functionality with the ChatGPT AI. Some of these integrations are annoying and can be easily disabled by installing the Tampermonkey browser extension then adding a couple scripts to modify the displayed webpage and its behavior.

 // ==UserScript==  
 // @name    Disable Bing Search Engine Scroll  
 // @namespace  your-namespace  
 // @description Disables scrolling on the Bing search engine page to prevent accidental scrolling into the Bing chat feature.  
 // @match   https://www.bing.com/*  
 // @version   1  
 // @grant    none  
 // ==/UserScript==  
   
 window.addEventListener("wheel", e=>{  
 if(e.target.className.includes("cib-serp-main")) e.stopPropagation();  
 });  

  • Disable sidebar Chat autosearch functionality when disaplying search results:
 // ==UserScript==  
 // @name    Disable Bing Chat autosearch  
 // @namespace  your-namespace  
 // @description Disables the Bing Chat autosearch functionality on the right side of results when doing a search.  
 // @match   https://www.bing.com/*  
 // @version   1  
 // @grant    none  
 // ==/UserScript==  
   
 const element = document.getElementById("sydwrap_wrapper");  
 element.remove();  
 const element1 = document.getElementById("b_sydTigerCont");
 element1.remove();

Remember that of course these scripts might stop working one day if Microsoft decides to change something on their side, when that happens they will simply need to be updated.