In Windows, can I make the right-click context menu always be in the "show more options" mode by default?
How can I make Windows 11 always “show more options” on the context menu?
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The right click context menu on Windows 11 is absolutely aggravating, and every time I right click, I have to right click, then click “show more options” to see what I want.
In Windows, can I make the right-click context menu always be in the “show more options” mode by default?
Restore the old Context Menu in Windows 11
- Right-click the Start button and choose Windows Terminal
- Copy the command from below, paste it into Windows Terminal Window, and press enter
- reg.exe add “HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32” /f /ve
- Restart File Explorer or your computer for the changes to take effect
- You would see the Legacy Right Click Context menu by default
For people that want to know what they’re doing when they execute a command like this:
HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 is the key we’re interested in and we want to make its (Default) value to be an empty string instead of the C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.FileExplorer.dll value that’s already in there.
The command is adding that key and the /ve part creates an empty (Default) value.
Since that key and value already exist, we add the /f that forces the command to overwrite what’s there
By deleting the path to the dll for this “feature”, Windows fails over to the classic menu
If you were trying to add the default value but insert data instead of leaving it blank (for instance, to add the original value back), you would need to do /ve /d “the data” with /f if you were overwriting existing data. You can type reg add /? to see more information about what the switches/options are doing.
Use SHIFT + RIGHT Click
SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK should do it.