windows

Restore Default Context Menu

When you right click something in Explorer in Windows 11, you'll have to click "Show more options" to get to the useful stuff that you actually want.


To disable it, run this in any command prompt:

reg add HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 /ve /d "" /f


It adds a new key which returns to the old menu, showing the useful stuff by default. If you decide you want to go back to Windows 11 default (you will never do this) you can by running this to delete the new key you added:

reg delete HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 /f