Windows 10 swipe from edge had useful features. Swipe from left: task switcher. Swipe from right: quick settings, calendar with upcoming agenda, notifications. Now, both of these functions are gone, and the new edge swipe behaviors are useless for productivity.
I miss the left swipe gesture which opens task view so much. It was second nature to me when I was using Windows 10. There is basically no reason to use task view anymore, unless you want to swich to a different desktop while using touch gestures. Yes there is a button on the taskbar for task view, but why bother with it when I may just as well click on the apps I need which are also on the taskbar.
I wish I was half as good as you at instruction, I've recently quit my job as a unionironworker of structural steel erection and became the apprenticeship instructor for our union hall. I thought it was going to be a great way to spend the last 10 or 15 years I had left, thought it would be "gravy" as its called in construction circles. I have over 25 yrs experience in the trade. What I did not know until week 1 of the "deep end" that all my years experience did little to nothing until I learned to be an instructor. I have been an instructor full time since December 2018. No one can fathom the difficulty, not just dificult but layers of pain and humility. You can shadow someone for a year and couldn't see it fully or partially. Until you yourself has experienced the pain that is spending weeks preparing your class and putting together contingencies for the inevitable only to burn thru everything day one .
For me this was SUPER helpful. I just started using my new Win11 laptop and was confused by things changing on my screen. After watching your video I realized that I was accidently performing some of the swipe functions. Now that I know how to use them, I love it! I'll have to watch this video a few more times to get the full value. Thanks!!!!!!
Really useful, thanks for sharing. I've got a training session tomorrow in front of 15 people on how to use the Surface Go. These gestures will be really useful.
swiping from the left and from the right is the biggest problem for windows 11 touchscreen user... i really hope windows did something for this problem.
Windows 10 was absolutely atrocious for touchscreens. Half the time it did not recognize a gesture or a tab and I would have to do it multiple times. Plus the menus weren’t very well optimized for touch screens. Windows 11 is an entirely different story. It works amazingly well on the surface pro seven. It works so well in fact I almost felt like I was using an iPad. Great video by the way.
Thanks for the info! I have not used a touchscreen before or a computer since windows 2000 professional. This will really help me to get the most out of my new laptop. Thanks again!
swiping in from the right and left to get to task view and quick settings were the best features of windows 10 I used many times daily. I really want to get these back. Widgets are totally useless.
I started this as a comment than it turned into a letter I was going to send a friend and accidentally hit send when I was trying to cut and paste .... But you are very good at explaining
Do we need almost to open the settings panel to change the device connected to our bluetooth? Is there almost that atrocious old window to send a file to a device with bluetooth?
That is actually such a solid build of a machine. You’ll handle it just fine imo. It might say your processor and lack of tpm are an issue but that’s more around security and not actual performance of the os. You might even get better performance when upgrading
I was hoping that Windows 11 would make the touch screen experience much better, and it seems that they have. Thank you for your clear explanation and demonstration of these features. It really looks like an exciting product.
6:25 Why in the world did they remove this feature in the full release of Win 11? I would've loved to have been able to customize what quick settings are on that panel.
Not that I've figured out yet...it was originally going to be a deal breaker for me, I've been using the 3 finger swipe left on the screen to swap apps instead
I like the touch gestures on Windows 11, But the the whole Windows 11 needs to be improved more and optimized for Tablet experience. Also, I feel that having the Desktop Taskbar when present for Tablet mode is not looking nice at all. The taskbar shouldn't be clustered while in Tablet mode.
Hi there, Windows is definitely getting better as a tablet optimized device but I think that's the trouble, having one operating system that's built for of both keyboard + mouse use or touch + pen. It sort of makes me think of why Apple still runs different operating systems on their Macs & their iPads, they can customize each input for the specific OS. My biggest problem with the gestures atm is swiping in from the left, it was so useful to swipe in and switch applications...now all it does is show me widgets :(
Good review. Thank you. A question: These new gestures in Windows 11 are great, but do you know, if I get a new windows laptop with Windows 11 but without a touch screen, can any or ideally all of these new Windows 11 gestures (Various numbers of fingers, swipes, palming...) also be used via the trackpad? And if only some, do you know which? I am considering the new Dell XPS 17 9710, but still deciding between the UHD+ touchscreen or the FHD+ non-touch screen, so my question here could be very relevant to my decision as to which to choose. Thanks again. Thumbs up.
You’re welcome, thanks for the comment :) if you have a laptop without touch screen you can still access these tools by using and adding the buttons to your task bar. If you right click your task bar you’ll have the option to show or hide some of these buttons. Hope this helps!
Finally they turfed that stupid tablet mode! Now its a regular mac from 10 years ago you can run with your finger groundbreaking, not. But a positive move.
how to open the the keyboard in windowss11 on tablet....normal there is a button to go to tablet modus and automaticly the keyboard opens when you want to write something
I accidently discover on touchpad swipe 4 finger upward or downward open up search on chrome swipe two finger horizontal from the left will let you back from the right go forward. Wish they add gesture for quick setting
Is there ANY way to configure the touchscreen gestures? I got massive problems with Civilization 5 on Windows 11 when using touch. It always thinks i go "right click" whenever i tap on the screen.... Only setting i found in win11 was to disable 3-4 finger gestures. wtf ?
Why would I want to see the calendar when swiping? also in apps i was used to swipe from any side to simulate back button and now i cant, i need to manually touch the back button in window
hi bro i need help i am unable to play piano in my touch laptop when i play three notes by touching with three fingers it is not playing and coming back to desktop please help me bro
What model is the Surface in this video? Windows 11 seems jittery, especially when moving or resizing windows, so I hope this isn't the Surface Pro 7 or 7+
I still can't believe that there still isn't a quick settings option for Bluetooth built into the control/action center. The fact that if I wanna quickly connect or disconnect a BT device I STILL have to swipe up from the bottom to reveal the task bar (i have mine set to auto hide), then tap the icons on the right to reveal the control center, then long press the Bluetooth icon and select 'open settings', have a whole new window open, AND THEN I can connect/disconnect a device. Its ridiculous, like, there's a built in WiFi quick settings pane to connect to a new network without having to open a whole window, why not Bluetooth too??
@@AldoJames Aye! They have apparently added a Bluetooth quick setting to the latest developer build! Not sure if it’s out yet but I’m pumped for it to hit the stable build man, I switch BT devices so damn much between my surface and desktop, I just have the settings pane permanently open on both devices for quick access, so I’m so ready for this update
Hi All of a sudden my type cover keyboard stop working. When i used to without the actual keyboard when I wna use to type asap the touchpad used to come on auto. i have to keep lookin on the small icon that is so frust. i have surface pro 8 windows 11
Hi Misslovely, i made a video on fixing type cover issues not long ago! Try these steps and let me know if it worked: ruclips.net/video/t5LkCQweIK8/видео.html
Thank you at least the automatic touch keyboard started working again thank you alot i am waiting a few more days till i get a chance to ship out the original one and get a replacment first thanks that what
@@AldoJames what i did what i said press the power button and volume up like u said but there was no white logo to put reset i guess it my type cover but thank you I really needed that fix. idk whats wrong when i did no damage nothing in the way i have to wait a long time now to give back thru the ups mail store and wait but thank you.
Will dell inspiron 5410 Core i5 8GB ram 512 SSD be good for windows 11? I haven't bought it yet and it comes as windows 10 by default so do you think upgrading it to 11 as soon as i turn it on for the first time will be ok? I'm not very good with laptops and stuff so I don't know if upgrading it right away is something I should do
I want action centre when I swipe from the right. Now I can't watch Netlfix in fullscreen and change volume or birghtness :( . Does anyone know if this is possible? Miss that about Windows 10.
in windows 10, i used to easily accses my setting like bluetooth, wifi, BRIGHTNESS, LOCK ROTATION when im watching or doing something in fullscreen by swiping from right. im really upset about this... i use to love using my touchscreen laptop cause how easy it is to personalize... why do windows think its better to show the stupid calender and making every used to be very simple setting now very complicated... now i have to close the fullscreen... and then click the setting bar on the bottom... and change my brighnes... it used to be one simple swipe... now its 4 tap... this so stresful.... im thinking to stop using touchscreen laptop now.... damn it windows....
Not a dumb question 😊 you'll need to go into the settings and choose to have the keyboard icon always in the Taskbar or you can have it set to appear every time you click on a field that you can type into. Hope this helps 😀
Ty for this video. Now im sure that my next tablet wont be windows 11. I think that now only option that I'll like is IPadOS bc its designed for tablets but I still rlly miss windows 8.1... it was just perfect for me
Seems tablets are not the focus of windows anymore. This is a clearly desktop system with all legacy concepts like a Desktop which does not make sense on a modern touchscreen device.
hello, if I'm in fullscreen on an application, how do I execute the esc command or go back to the desktop using gestures? assuming it doesn't have a keyboard
Microsoft deserve harsh punishments for not allowing people to easily disable the left/right edge swipe gestures. Genuinely makes using my ROG ally such a god damn pain
My touchscreen hanheld gaming PC orientation says landscape (flipped) yet it is really displaying everything in normal landscape mode. Why is it registering wrong and is there a way to correct this? Everything still works fine and the display is upright so maybe I shouldn't worry about it. Just strange that it thinks it is landscape (flipped) I think this happened when I was connected to my TV for gameplay and was adjusting the screen resolution for better performance.
buying a Hp x360 that comes with windows 11, was thinking about putting windows 10 on it but i believe windows 11 is the better option after seeing this video
@@AldoJames how do you access notifications then? What's the shortcut? Notifications on windows 10 is Win+A. And now with them separated how to access?
It's baffles my mind how press and hold ever made it through the first MS brainstorm meeting on how to implement touch on Windows (what, pre win7??) as the preferred way to do a right click using touch, let alone the ONLY way. The fact that this was in 8.1 (my first windows after over a decade of exclusively mac), baffled me, that's is unchanged in win10 baffles me and that it remains unchanged in win11 is just mind boggling to me. That it's AN option, fine, but THE option.... Unforgivable. Really.
@@AldoJames I'm using both. My music production power needs increased when Apple's Mac Pro's were inexistent or priced and specced waaaay out of my goldilocks zone. So I built a 3950X miniITX system, as my first PC build ever. My intention was to just run win10 on it but I've specced and installed it in such a way that messing around with a MacOS install should be feasible, should I ever need it. So far it's been win10 though. I have two main gripes with the 'press and hold' for right click. 1. It just slows you down considerably while if anything a touch screen should help you navigate more swiftly. 2. (And worse still) if you use touch to manipulate objects like faders, having press&hold for right click enabled, means you constantly have this richtclick dialog visibly starting to appear, possibly (almost surely) lagging the response time of your touches too. It just won't do, so you have to turn press&hold off, leaving you with no right click functionality using touch. Unless you use the virtual on screen trackpad.... :O At least in Mac, I can touch while pressing a ctrl key to get the rightclick menu. On win 8.1Pro, in Pro Tools, I was able to use the windows key for that, but it doesn't seem to work on win10. In either case, press&hold as the ONLY way of performing a right click in windows using a touch screen is just the kind of slapped on functionality that got me to run from windows to Mac in the first place. One of the reasons I decided to start toying around with windows again is because Apple refused to support/implement touch in MacOS whereas MS have embraced it. Well, low and behold, touch on MacOS with a third party driver works better for me in many respects than native touch on windows does. Go figure. The gap between windows and Mac in terms of UI is much narrower than it once was, but it's still there. I still prefer MacOS, but windows is fine (and of course it has advantages too, life ain't in black&white). The old quality of functions over quantity approach of Apple is still noticeable over MS' quantity over quality approach. Apple's approach can be excruciatingly annoying if they refuse to implement something you happen to want, but they generally don't just slap on something like press and hold without thinking it through or at least developing it further over the years. MS have just slapped it on and just left it at that. Shoddy work.
@@TheGoodDrEvil Now I'm curious, what gesture would you prefer for right click on touch? I see you mentioned something about touching while holding control, but that assumes you have a keyboard connected and available while in touch mode which the vast majority of users will not have. When I use my Surface Pro in touch mode, the keyboard is always folded behind and inaccessible. I've considered that a two finger touch could work for right click, but then the touch targets get harder to hit with two fingers simultaneously.
@@kylewolfe_ Yeah I've thought about that too. I guess a primary touch quickly followed by a secondary touch just next to it would e an idea? You could adjust how quickly it would respond, like you can adjust double click speeds etc. You could even have preferences whether that secondary tap should be a single digit or a multi finger affair. Hell, you could even assign different actions according to how many fingers you use for the secondary tap. This gives you the precision of a one finger tap, but the option of multi touch gestures. Would that work? You could also look at how Bitwig does single finge gesures for audio editing. Just by an inital touch and then sliding to the left, right, up, down for different functionality. All of these options could be much quicker and more powerful than only having a sluggish touch and hold option. Methinks.
The touch controls on WIndows 10 were decent. Now it's terrible on Windows 11. When watching a full-screen video (like say, on RUclips) on Windows 10, I could simply swipe-right, then control the screen brightness accordingly. BUT NOW, with this stupid Windows 11, I have to move out of full-screen, then look for that stupidly small button to control screen brightness, then go back again to the full-screen. Why the heck does an updated software make me do more 'swipe & press' than the previous software...? Windows 11 is a piece of crap. I'm not trolling anyone, just honestly writing this based on my experience.
8:42 It's still shit... It's actually even worse. All the icons disappear during the transition and the wallpaper jumps around. Win 11 is an unpolished turd compared to Fedora Linux where all these transitions are 1 to 1 smooth 60fps and the small windows are actually live in Fedora! MS is a trillion dollar company, there is no excuse!
@@AldoJames only on my laptop Oh my desktop I use win10 as it runs great. The laptop overheats too much on windows 11(even on idle) while on Fedora it's cold with the fall not even turning on.
Windows 10 swipe from edge had useful features. Swipe from left: task switcher. Swipe from right: quick settings, calendar with upcoming agenda, notifications. Now, both of these functions are gone, and the new edge swipe behaviors are useless for productivity.
I do miss those features when using Windows 11 :(
I agree, what the heck was microsoft thinking?
Seriously. The could expand the left swipe for fast switching apps, but no... Let's put this feature nobody asked for instead.
I miss the left swipe gesture which opens task view so much. It was second nature to me when I was using Windows 10. There is basically no reason to use task view anymore, unless you want to swich to a different desktop while using touch gestures. Yes there is a button on the taskbar for task view, but why bother with it when I may just as well click on the apps I need which are also on the taskbar.
I miss them soooo bad. I never use the stupid widget news feed
I wish I was half as good as you at instruction, I've recently quit my job as a unionironworker of structural steel erection and became the apprenticeship instructor for our union hall. I thought it was going to be a great way to spend the last 10 or 15 years I had left, thought it would be "gravy" as its called in construction circles. I have over 25 yrs experience in the trade. What I did not know until week 1 of the "deep end" that all my years experience did little to nothing until I learned to be an instructor. I have been an instructor full time since December 2018. No one can fathom the difficulty, not just dificult but layers of pain and humility. You can shadow someone for a year and couldn't see it fully or partially. Until you yourself has experienced the pain that is spending weeks preparing your class and putting together contingencies for the inevitable only to burn thru everything day one .
I'll say thanks here too!
This is the video I've been looking for. Thank you :D
Welcome :)
For me this was SUPER helpful. I just started using my new Win11 laptop and was confused by things changing on my screen. After watching your video I realized that I was accidently performing some of the swipe functions. Now that I know how to use them, I love it! I'll have to watch this video a few more times to get the full value. Thanks!!!!!!
I’m glad this helped you out!
Really useful, thanks for sharing. I've got a training session tomorrow in front of 15 people on how to use the Surface Go. These gestures will be really useful.
Happy it helped :)
Explained well..still the left swipe was very easy to switch apps than 3 finger for me.
Thank you and I agree, swiping left was very easy
swiping from the left and from the right is the biggest problem for windows 11 touchscreen user... i really hope windows did something for this problem.
I hope so too, even if we just get the options to customise what the gesture does
Windows 10 was absolutely atrocious for touchscreens. Half the time it did not recognize a gesture or a tab and I would have to do it multiple times. Plus the menus weren’t very well optimized for touch screens. Windows 11 is an entirely different story. It works amazingly well on the surface pro seven. It works so well in fact I almost felt like I was using an iPad. Great video by the way.
Hi Rosie, firstly thank you comment :) Great to hear you're enjoying Windows 11 touch experience and that it's even comparable now to an iPad!
Can’t wait to use it!
If you need any tips let me know :)
Thanks for the info! I have not used a touchscreen before or a computer since windows 2000 professional. This will really help me to get the most out of my new laptop. Thanks again!
Really happy the tips helped!
Thank you this was exactly what i was looking for! The secret behind the gestures. LOVE!
You're so welcome!
exactly what I'm looking for. thanks!
Glad it helped!
Thanks bro, that was super helpful.
Glad it helped :)
swiping in from the right and left to get to task view and quick settings were the best features of windows 10 I used many times daily. I really want to get these back. Widgets are totally useless.
I started this as a comment than it turned into a letter I was going to send a friend and accidentally hit send when I was trying to cut and paste .... But you are very good at explaining
And its incomplete.. FML
Thank you :)
Really close to 1k subs
Nice you got to 1k!
We made it!!
I found this video very helpful and informative. Thanks! Keep it up 😉
Glad it helped :D
Do we need almost to open the settings panel to change the device connected to our bluetooth? Is there almost that atrocious old window to send a file to a device with bluetooth?
yea at the moment you do :(
Do you think my PC will function ok?
256gb SSD
32gb RAM
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 8 core 3ghz
GeForce GTX 750ti
That is actually such a solid build of a machine. You’ll handle it just fine imo. It might say your processor and lack of tpm are an issue but that’s more around security and not actual performance of the os. You might even get better performance when upgrading
I'm running Windows 11 on a surface pro 1 from 2013. No issues whatsoever. Everything works.
I was hoping that Windows 11 would make the touch screen experience much better, and it seems that they have. Thank you for your clear explanation and demonstration of these features. It really looks like an exciting product.
Thanks for the comment and you're welcome :)
It is a really bad product and MS should be ashamed it's even out.
@@HAWXLEADER 😅😅
This was a great explanation. Thanks!
You're welcome! Thanks for the comment :)
Great video. Any chance of an update? Did something changed in the past months?
Thank you! Not much has changed with the latest updates TBH
Super helpful
Thank you
Thank you! A.J
You're welcome!
6:25 Why in the world did they remove this feature in the full release of Win 11? I would've loved to have been able to customize what quick settings are on that panel.
I know, sometimes it's questionable who makes these decisions
Is there any way to get the legacy swipe from the left edge gesture? That alone almost makes me want to switch back to windows 10
Not that I've figured out yet...it was originally going to be a deal breaker for me, I've been using the 3 finger swipe left on the screen to swap apps instead
I see, thank you! Ill probably look for something similar in order to replace it, I just went into my regedit and removed the gesture for now
@@amidnight1036 Top idea! thanks for letting us know
I like the touch gestures on Windows 11, But the the whole Windows 11 needs to be improved more and optimized for Tablet experience.
Also, I feel that having the Desktop Taskbar when present for Tablet mode is not looking nice at all. The taskbar shouldn't be clustered while in Tablet mode.
Hi there, Windows is definitely getting better as a tablet optimized device but I think that's the trouble, having one operating system that's built for of both keyboard + mouse use or touch + pen.
It sort of makes me think of why Apple still runs different operating systems on their Macs & their iPads, they can customize each input for the specific OS.
My biggest problem with the gestures atm is swiping in from the left, it was so useful to swipe in and switch applications...now all it does is show me widgets :(
Good review. Thank you. A question: These new gestures in Windows 11 are great, but do you know, if I get a new windows laptop with Windows 11 but without a touch screen, can any or ideally all of these new Windows 11 gestures (Various numbers of fingers, swipes, palming...) also be used via the trackpad? And if only some, do you know which? I am considering the new Dell XPS 17 9710, but still deciding between the UHD+ touchscreen or the FHD+ non-touch screen, so my question here could be very relevant to my decision as to which to choose. Thanks again. Thumbs up.
You’re welcome, thanks for the comment :) if you have a laptop without touch screen you can still access these tools by using and adding the buttons to your task bar. If you right click your task bar you’ll have the option to show or hide some of these buttons. Hope this helps!
FYI, to access bluetooth and wifi..., swipe up from the bottom right. 😊
Good tip!
Why so many dislikes? this vid is good.
Thank you! :)
Thank you!
Finally they turfed that stupid tablet mode! Now its a regular mac from 10 years ago you can run with your finger groundbreaking, not. But a positive move.
It's definitely a better touch experience
how to open the the keyboard in windowss11 on tablet....normal there is a button to go to tablet modus and automaticly the keyboard opens when you want to write something
I'll add it to the videos to make :)
thank you this really helped me😂🤝
Welcome :)
I accidently discover on touchpad swipe 4 finger upward or downward open up search on chrome swipe two finger horizontal from the left will let you back from the right go forward. Wish they add gesture for quick setting
ohh I didn't know that! It would be good if you could customize the gestures in Win 11
@@AldoJames I just realized I was wrong actually 3 finger tap bring search. I just added gestures for notification and quick setting
Is there ANY way to configure the touchscreen gestures?
I got massive problems with Civilization 5 on Windows 11 when using touch. It always thinks i go "right click" whenever i tap on the screen....
Only setting i found in win11 was to disable 3-4 finger gestures. wtf ?
I don't believe there are any ways to customize touchscreen gestures in Windows 11
@@AldoJames Thx for the reply anyways. Hope they will add some features with time. Today in July 2022 it feels pretty shallow and lacking some things.
Which surface pro are you using in video? Thinking it's 7?
It's the Surface Pro X :)
Why would I want to see the calendar when swiping? also in apps i was used to swipe from any side to simulate back button and now i cant, i need to manually touch the back button in window
I agree, it's an odd design choice 😢
hi bro i need help
i am unable to play piano in my touch laptop
when i play three notes by touching with three fingers it is not playing and coming back to desktop
please help me bro
i got that bro
it worked , in bluetooth devices there is the setting to stop three and four finger touch gesture on and off
Awesome!
What model is the Surface in this video? Windows 11 seems jittery, especially when moving or resizing windows, so I hope this isn't the Surface Pro 7 or 7+
It’s the Pro 7 but when it had an early developer preview installed. Release edition is much smoother
It is possible to change the action of right and left gestures?
Unfortunately not at this stage but I think that would be a great feature for them to add. I preferred Windows 10 left and right gestures tbh
I still can't believe that there still isn't a quick settings option for Bluetooth built into the control/action center. The fact that if I wanna quickly connect or disconnect a BT device I STILL have to swipe up from the bottom to reveal the task bar (i have mine set to auto hide), then tap the icons on the right to reveal the control center, then long press the Bluetooth icon and select 'open settings', have a whole new window open, AND THEN I can connect/disconnect a device. Its ridiculous, like, there's a built in WiFi quick settings pane to connect to a new network without having to open a whole window, why not Bluetooth too??
It looks like Microosft is taking on some of this feedback and slowly changing the UI but I understand wher you're coming from
@@AldoJames Aye! They have apparently added a Bluetooth quick setting to the latest developer build! Not sure if it’s out yet but I’m pumped for it to hit the stable build man, I switch BT devices so damn much between my surface and desktop, I just have the settings pane permanently open on both devices for quick access, so I’m so ready for this update
Hi All of a sudden my type cover keyboard stop working. When i used to without the actual keyboard when I wna use to type asap the touchpad used to come on auto. i have to keep lookin on the small icon that is so frust. i have surface pro 8 windows 11
Hi Misslovely, i made a video on fixing type cover issues not long ago! Try these steps and let me know if it worked:
ruclips.net/video/t5LkCQweIK8/видео.html
Thank you at least the automatic touch keyboard started working again thank you alot i am waiting a few more days till i get a chance to ship out the original one and get a replacment first thanks that what
@@AldoJames what i did what i said press the power button and volume up like u said but there was no white logo to put reset i guess it my type cover but thank you I really needed that fix. idk whats wrong when i did no damage nothing in the way i have to wait a long time now to give back thru the ups mail store and wait but thank you.
Will dell inspiron 5410 Core i5 8GB ram 512 SSD be good for windows 11? I haven't bought it yet and it comes as windows 10 by default so do you think upgrading it to 11 as soon as i turn it on for the first time will be ok? I'm not very good with laptops and stuff so I don't know if upgrading it right away is something I should do
Those specs would work great for Windows 11 :)
How can i wake up the laptop from sleep mode when it is in tent mode.
I want action centre when I swipe from the right. Now I can't watch Netlfix in fullscreen and change volume or birghtness :( . Does anyone know if this is possible? Miss that about Windows 10.
I know, it's little things like that that are frustrating :( I don't know of any ways to do this as easily as it was with Win 10
in windows 10, i used to easily accses my setting like bluetooth, wifi, BRIGHTNESS, LOCK ROTATION when im watching or doing something in fullscreen by swiping from right. im really upset about this... i use to love using my touchscreen laptop cause how easy it is to personalize... why do windows think its better to show the stupid calender and making every used to be very simple setting now very complicated... now i have to close the fullscreen... and then click the setting bar on the bottom... and change my brighnes... it used to be one simple swipe... now its 4 tap... this so stresful.... im thinking to stop using touchscreen laptop now.... damn it windows....
Yea it’s annoying that they’ve added more steps in to do the same thing. I get that it looks nicer but it’s lost some of its functionality
This may sound like dumb question how can use the keypad when need to type
Not a dumb question 😊 you'll need to go into the settings and choose to have the keyboard icon always in the Taskbar or you can have it set to appear every time you click on a field that you can type into. Hope this helps 😀
Ty for this video. Now im sure that my next tablet wont be windows 11. I think that now only option that I'll like is IPadOS bc its designed for tablets but I still rlly miss windows 8.1... it was just perfect for me
You’re welcome! Which tablet will you be using Win 11 on?
@@AldoJames I said WON'T
@@mrtoaster2954 Haha thanks for clarifying, I misread that
@@AldoJames it's ok. Thanks for good quality helpful video.
I "upgraded" my Lenovo Yoga 730 to 11, and now the touch screen does not work at all.
You might need to reinstall the drivers from the Lenovo website
How to enable double tap to wake feature in windows 11?
It came out in an update recently
I wish I could change the volume with the right swiper gesture
thank would be good
@@AldoJames Iam playing games and right swipe shows me calendar what’s the point 😤
@@venusdarkside4350 that’s a question for Microsoft haha I can imagine that can be distracting :(
Seems tablets are not the focus of windows anymore. This is a clearly desktop system with all legacy concepts like a Desktop which does not make sense on a modern touchscreen device.
The desktop concept is for pro users not for natives
The desktop concept is for pro users . Nieves only don't like it
Is there a method of bringing back the swipe left / right gesture from windows 10 for showing the notification center and the desktops view?
There isn't but it owuld be great if they did
i find it hard to do personalization in windows 11. use to be just slide from right screen.... anyone find solution?
Nothing at the moment, best you can do is disable to gesture
How to wake up from sleep mode any gestures only with touch screen
hello, if I'm in fullscreen on an application, how do I execute the esc command or go back to the desktop using gestures? assuming it doesn't have a keyboard
Four finger swipe down should do it :)
There isnt a dedicated tablet mode in Windows 11 but it has a good tablet experience, XD
I think it's good to not have a dedicated mode but the slight adjustments made for touch make it a good experience
@@AldoJames yeah, correct
In your browser, u can perform right-click by using two fingers
Thank you!
Are you able to change the gestures to shortcuts like ctrl+ Z?
It would be cool if you could but the gestures are locked
Microsoft deserve harsh punishments for not allowing people to easily disable the left/right edge swipe gestures. Genuinely makes using my ROG ally such a god damn pain
ohhh man yea I can see how that would be an issue on a handheld!
My touchscreen hanheld gaming PC orientation says landscape (flipped) yet it is really displaying everything in normal landscape mode. Why is it registering wrong and is there a way to correct this? Everything still works fine and the display is upright so maybe I shouldn't worry about it. Just strange that it thinks it is landscape (flipped) I think this happened when I was connected to my TV for gameplay and was adjusting the screen resolution for better performance.
Did you figure this out?
@@AldoJames yes, it's normal
buying a Hp x360 that comes with windows 11, was thinking about putting windows 10 on it but i believe windows 11 is the better option after seeing this video
Happy my video helped, Windows 11 is definitely a big upgrade over 10 now
not working on an hp spectre x360
Slow touchscreen response in convertible laptops when folding mode when you watch long and suddenly want to touch the laptop again
Which laptop are you experiencing this on?
@@AldoJames lenovo yoga6
Hmm thanks alot
Welcome :)
so they have separated the notfications from all those tools
Yup
@@AldoJames how do you access notifications then? What's the shortcut? Notifications on windows 10 is Win+A. And now with them separated how to access?
noice
Thank you!
I hate the widgets tbh
It's baffles my mind how press and hold ever made it through the first MS brainstorm meeting on how to implement touch on Windows (what, pre win7??) as the preferred way to do a right click using touch, let alone the ONLY way.
The fact that this was in 8.1 (my first windows after over a decade of exclusively mac), baffled me, that's is unchanged in win10 baffles me and that it remains unchanged in win11 is just mind boggling to me. That it's AN option, fine, but THE option.... Unforgivable. Really.
I see you feel very strongly about this 😅 but I understand where you're coming from. Did you switch back to mac or are you using Windows?
@@AldoJames I'm using both. My music production power needs increased when Apple's Mac Pro's were inexistent or priced and specced waaaay out of my goldilocks zone. So I built a 3950X miniITX system, as my first PC build ever.
My intention was to just run win10 on it but I've specced and installed it in such a way that messing around with a MacOS install should be feasible, should I ever need it.
So far it's been win10 though.
I have two main gripes with the 'press and hold' for right click.
1. It just slows you down considerably while if anything a touch screen should help you navigate more swiftly.
2. (And worse still) if you use touch to manipulate objects like faders, having press&hold for right click enabled, means you constantly have this richtclick dialog visibly starting to appear, possibly (almost surely) lagging the response time of your touches too.
It just won't do, so you have to turn press&hold off, leaving you with no right click functionality using touch. Unless you use the virtual on screen trackpad.... :O
At least in Mac, I can touch while pressing a ctrl key to get the rightclick menu.
On win 8.1Pro, in Pro Tools, I was able to use the windows key for that, but it doesn't seem to work on win10.
In either case, press&hold as the ONLY way of performing a right click in windows using a touch screen is just the kind of slapped on functionality that got me to run from windows to Mac in the first place.
One of the reasons I decided to start toying around with windows again is because Apple refused to support/implement touch in MacOS whereas MS have embraced it.
Well, low and behold, touch on MacOS with a third party driver works better for me in many respects than native touch on windows does. Go figure.
The gap between windows and Mac in terms of UI is much narrower than it once was, but it's still there.
I still prefer MacOS, but windows is fine (and of course it has advantages too, life ain't in black&white).
The old quality of functions over quantity approach of Apple is still noticeable over MS' quantity over quality approach.
Apple's approach can be excruciatingly annoying if they refuse to implement something you happen to want, but they generally don't just slap on something like press and hold without thinking it through or at least developing it further over the years. MS have just slapped it on and just left it at that.
Shoddy work.
@@TheGoodDrEvil Now I'm curious, what gesture would you prefer for right click on touch? I see you mentioned something about touching while holding control, but that assumes you have a keyboard connected and available while in touch mode which the vast majority of users will not have. When I use my Surface Pro in touch mode, the keyboard is always folded behind and inaccessible. I've considered that a two finger touch could work for right click, but then the touch targets get harder to hit with two fingers simultaneously.
@@kylewolfe_ Yeah I've thought about that too. I guess a primary touch quickly followed by a secondary touch just next to it would e an idea?
You could adjust how quickly it would respond, like you can adjust double click speeds etc.
You could even have preferences whether that secondary tap should be a single digit or a multi finger affair.
Hell, you could even assign different actions according to how many fingers you use for the secondary tap.
This gives you the precision of a one finger tap, but the option of multi touch gestures.
Would that work?
You could also look at how Bitwig does single finge gesures for audio editing. Just by an inital touch and then sliding to the left, right, up, down for different functionality.
All of these options could be much quicker and more powerful than only having a sluggish touch and hold option.
Methinks.
The touch controls on WIndows 10 were decent. Now it's terrible on Windows 11.
When watching a full-screen video (like say, on RUclips) on Windows 10, I could simply swipe-right, then control the screen brightness accordingly.
BUT NOW, with this stupid Windows 11, I have to move out of full-screen, then look for that stupidly small button to control screen brightness, then go back again to the full-screen.
Why the heck does an updated software make me do more 'swipe & press' than the previous software...?
Windows 11 is a piece of crap. I'm not trolling anyone, just honestly writing this based on my experience.
8:42 It's still shit... It's actually even worse.
All the icons disappear during the transition and the wallpaper jumps around.
Win 11 is an unpolished turd compared to Fedora Linux where all these transitions are 1 to 1 smooth 60fps and the small windows are actually live in Fedora!
MS is a trillion dollar company, there is no excuse!
I've never used Fedora Linux, do you use it as your main OS?
@@AldoJames only on my laptop
Oh my desktop I use win10 as it runs great.
The laptop overheats too much on windows 11(even on idle) while on Fedora it's cold with the fall not even turning on.