Greta Lindqvist

Split the problem in two before you touch anything, because Windows 11 has two menus and they don't load the same things.

The short menu surfaces commands from apps that register them the modern, packaged way. Old-style COM verbs - the ones every installer has been dumping into the shell for twenty years - get pushed down under "Show more options". So:

• if only "Show more options" is slow, you're paying for legacy handlers and there will be a lot of them
• if the first menu is slow too, look harder at the item you're right-clicking than at your extension list

Then vary the target rather than the machine. Right-click a file in a plain local folder, then one inside a cloud-synced folder, then one on a mapped network drive. A sync provider or a half-dead mapped drive will stall the menu while the shell asks about status, and that has nothing to do with extensions at all. A mapped drive pointing at something that no longer exists is the classic: it blocks for the full SMB timeout, every single time.

You already said desktop is fastest and normal folders are slower, which reads more like per-item work than a global handler.

Heads up before you bother: this got removed in 24H2. The key does nothing on current builds.

Fair correction: I was going off a single article. Just ran it on my own 26200 box and it does take, so I'll stop repeating that.

The poster image does more work than people give it credit for. On a slow connection it is what gets measured as your largest contentful paint, and for a chunk of mobile visitors it is the only frame they will ever see, because they scroll before the video decodes. Treat it as a still ad rather than a placeholder.

One thing that surprised me: the person is very often not a fraudster and will tell you so if you can reach them. I now email as soon as a dispute lands, politely, saying I have seen it and asking if they would prefer a refund. Two out of five withdrew the dispute themselves and one apologised, saying his card was replaced and he did not recognise the name. You cannot always contact them, but when you can it is the highest value thing in the whole process.

Whatever you pick, sit in the driver seat for ten minutes without driving anywhere. On a 60km daily commute the seat is the component you interact with most and it is the one nobody test drives.

Say 'not this year, but here's what I can do instead' and offer a data processing agreement, a region choice, and a retention setting. Costs you a week. Solves it for most of them.

Just went through this on a much smaller product and the thing that moved my number was not the dashboard at all, it was the step before it. I was asking for company name, team size and role during signup because I thought I would want the data later. Cut all three, went straight to the import screen after email and password, and the import completion rate went up noticeably.

So before you redesign the empty state, count how many screens sit between the button they clicked and the thing they came to do. Mine was four. It should have been one.

Asked. Rear main seal is 40 in parts while it is out and they quoted 380 to do it as its own job later. Adding it.

Honestly just memorise twenty good questions and rotate them. Works fine.

Charge in the customer's currency, settle in the same currency wherever you can, and stop reading the monthly total. The per-charge effective rate on your cheapest plan is the only number that tells you anything.

The tyre example stings because most of us have done it. My version was a boiler service I had been told about for eleven months.

An inspection saved me from a car with a bent rear beam that drove perfectly straight on the flat road I test drove it on.

Watched this happen on my own file. Two months of literal zero everywhere and the number sagged slightly, then recovered when I started using one card again.

Fixable, and more common than anyone admits at this size. "Clean books" for a deal this small does not mean audited accounts. It means a buyer can trace revenue in three directions and get the same number: your payment processor payouts, your bank, and whatever statement you hand them.

What to do this week: export the full payout report from your processor for all twelve months, export the bank statements including the personal account for the months it was used, and build one spreadsheet per month that reconciles gross revenue, refunds, fees, and net payout. Then a second tab for costs, with a note next to anything paid personally. A buyer who sees you volunteer the messy parts with a reconciliation attached trusts you more than one who sees suspiciously tidy numbers with no source data.

Also check whether the warranty is the dealer standing behind it themselves or a third party policy they have bought. Those behave very differently when you call.

Dissenting mildly. One month works if your job is genuinely async and you like the churn, and some people do get bored at week five and start underperforming. It is not automatically the beginner choice. But with 40 hours of meetings a week I agree it is the wrong call.

Slow and intact is going on a note above the desk. Thank you.

Sweater stone was a revelation for me. The battery shavers are faster but they take a millimetre of good fabric with the pills if you lean on them at all.