Think AI actions in Windows 11 are pointless? Microsoft is letting you banish them from the right-click menu

• Windows 11 has a new preview build
• It fully removes AI actions if you've disabled them all in File Explorer
• This means there will no longer be an empty folder in the right-click menu for AI actions that have been turned off

Windows 11 just got a change for the better in terms of AI – albeit only in testing for now – which removes some clutter related to the AI actions feature.

That functionality pertains to File Explorer's right-click context menu, but it's more of a refinement to existing options than anything else (and I’ll come back to why later). Even so, it's going to be well-received; you can count on that.

Windows Central reported on Microsoft announcing a simple but functional change in a new Windows 11 preview (build 26220.7344): "If there are no available or enabled AI Actions ...