Restore old Right-click Context menu in Windows 11

<removed> I have been using windows since 3.11 and this context menu change is the most irritating change Microsoft could have made.

The number of people that I work with and game with that have complained about this is innumerable. How this has not been removed by a windows update is extremally discouraging.

Yeah, I know my comment/feedback means nothing... I think all of us "users" feel the same way. If we want this to actually change in the future than alot of people are going to have to speak up - online, instead of telling me on discord or the phone....

I agree. The context menu has changed for the worse. I don't like it. It's not intuitive. Or is it quick with the double step process of getting to all of the context menu items.

There's nothing wrong with the new look or having abbreviated contents on the context menu, but for God's sake, why doesn't it learn what to put on the short menu? Or at least let me pick what to put on there? Selecting file to compare and selecting 2nd file to compare to first file, what a PITA now. Does anybody at Microsoft use Microsoft products for doing their actual work? It kind of seems less and less like that happens.

It is actually developers' responsibility to use new WinUI controls and as a result the new context menu. WinRAR recently did that.

That being said, you can edit yourself too:

Add Custom Context Menu items to Windows 11's File Explorer menu - gHacks Tech News

Thank you so much!!

Please actually fix this option and not just provide a registry workaround. Users who do not have admin access on work computers are stuck with this dumbed down menu version. Please consult actual computer users before making UI changes in future.

This is what happens when you try to reinvent the wheel. Stick with standards, copy and paste get used all the time. It is unacceptable to modify the registery to fix it. I don't feel comfortable and I have been a developer for 45 years. This should be a option in control panel or somewhere. I don't understand the mentality here, make more space, for what ? ads will be next on the context menus.

Thanks a lot really works

Confirm that new Windows context menu is not comfortable

Step 1 in the instructions is incorrect, which tells you to use the Windows Terminal with admin enabled. Instead, use the normal, non-admin terminal. For most people who use an admin account for normal activities this won't matter, but for those of us who separate user and admin accounts, you'll end up changing this registry setting for the admin account rather than the user account, and then be scratching your head wondering why the new context menu isn't going away, as I did.

The `reg.exe` command changes the HKCU registery hive, which is for the current user, so admin priviliage is not required.