How do I get the "Restore all windows" context menu back in Windows 11?

Hello, Dave886

Welcome to the Microsoft Community.

Thank you very much for your feedback. I have carefully read the information and problem description you provided.

I understand your current needs, but unfortunately, due to the changes made to a large number of system functions in Windows 11, the function of restoring certain specific windows has disappeared, which cannot be changed by changing certain settings.

If you must achieve such a demand, you can also use some third-party software to realize your ideas, but due to the rules of the forum, I cannot provide you with the specific names of these software. You can search for related content on the search engine to find them.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Best regards

Brian - Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Hi Brian, thanks for the response. This functionality has a significant impact on my productivity. I have multiple instances of the same application open (think Excel, Outlook - open each email in its own window, File Explorer), and I want to quickly go through them and close the ones no longer relevant, is there a way to do that without using the "Restore all windows" menu? I'd love to learn new (perhaps better) ways of doing this if no one else appear to be impacted by this lack/loss of feature.

Third-party software is out of the question as I'm on corporate laptop and network.

Anyone?

This is a bad answer and is incredibly unhelpful. Microsoft should, at the very least, make a plugin so that corporate users can get it. Telling people with corporate equipment to just go download a 3rd party application for something that was windows native for a decade is just deaf to the users.

An explanation of why it was removed would have been nice but saying to go find a 3rd party seem ludicrous. No one at Microsoft can create a native plugin or download to bring this functionality back ?