[damnitbuilds]

I, like most people, work with an application having its menu bar across the top of the application's window and the Windows menu is along the bottom of the screen.

Putting another menu above the application's menu bar would just overcomplicate trying to select an application menu item.

Microsoft need to get developers to fix the shit they already have, not get designers to come up with stupid new ideas. File Explorer STILL - three decades since NTFS came out - cannot handle long file paths properly FFS.

[theGeatZhopa]

I think it's the slice technique to introduce the "new" task bar in much broader context. In each installation, even when I have to help friends, I switch the taskbar from the centered to the left positioned (as it has been for decades) temporarily/permanently.

This is because the centered is reduced in informational real estate. There's is simply not enough space to show more, as it is the case with a full screen wide, left positioned.

And the people don't like it or miss something (like me). So, if I were Microsoft and I plan to have only the centered one in a distant future, I need to find a way .. and that's this way. A way people are used to already from a lot of UI in their daily life..

I think it's the motivation behind this. :)

But you're right. You just have to learn to structure your thinking in 255 characters long sentences, then long file paths won't even appear hahhah I hate it too. Have you tried the UNC path \\.\fullfilepath\filename.ext

I used this for access files with very long paths and names..