Scan with Avast only shows on the older context menu, when will Avast integrate the Scan option on the new context menu on Windows 11? Thank you.
I think the whole idea of the cut down context menu is to avoid adding all sorts of ‘clutter’. This is by design by Microsoft.
You can revert the context menus to the old style permanently with a registery tweak. I did that 5 minutes after installing Windows 11.
I really don’t wish to revert back, what would be the point of upgrading to 11. I think just like Malwarebytes, Avast team should add this to their do list on the new context menu. I will gladly pay for the premium if that’d be the case.
Changing which context menu appears doesn’t negate an entire OS upgrade. Many people believe the change is a regression in functionality and there is a fix. You own your OS and you modify it however you see fit. MS has no say in the matter.
MS may have no say in it, but does Avast?
I’m not taking a position in the discussion. What I’m saying is: it goes against the whole idea behind a simplified context menu with only the essential options. AV on demand scanning isn’t something a lot of people still do. The idea is that all files have already been automatically scanned at download/transfer/extraction/creation/etc. And they get scanned again at execution or have their hash stored for reference.The need to scan them manually isn’t really there.
On demand scanning seemingly isn’t deemed essential enough. Adding extra entries back in to the point where the new menu is as filled with options as the old menu, would run counter to the whole point of a simpler menu. And, you then might as well revert back to the old menu style where all entries are available. Including Avast.
Saying that that would make the upgrade to Win11 pointless is such a weird thing to say. At any rate: if you’re convinced that the new sparser context menu is better, then you shouldn’t even want to modify it. That was, in your words, the point of upgrading in the first place.
Wanting to change what it shows means you don’t like the upgrade, and you should revert that specific part back to one that offers you better functionality. And you can do exactly that.
By the way: I use on demand scanning on occasion. Just out of habit. But then again: I refuse to use the new style context menu so I don’t have to choose.
Shortly, will the Avast team include a “Scan with Avast” to the new UI right click context in Windows 11?