Bring back the full right-click menu (skip "Show more options") — via Mauro Huculak, Pureinfotech
Windows 11 shows a shortened right-click menu and hides the rest behind "Show more options". This per-user tweak makes Explorer show the full classic menu straight away. It only affects your account and is undone by deleting one key.
Restart Explorer (or sign out) to see it
The easy way
- Without any tweak, Shift + right-click (or Shift + F10) opens the full menu for one click.
- To make it permanent, apply the registry change below, then restart Explorer: Task Manager → Windows Explorer → Restart.
Registry change
Double-click a .reg file and confirm to merge it. Right-click → Edit first if you want to read it, which is always a good idea with any .reg file from the internet.
Apply
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; Oddbyte.Me: Bring back the full right-click menu (skip "Show more options")
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]
@=""Undo
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}]Same thing from a command prompt
Run in a normal (non-admin) Command Prompt or Terminal.
reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /ve /t REG_SZ /d "" /fUndo:
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}" /fThis isn't an official Microsoft setting. It has worked across Windows 11 releases so far, but a future update could ignore it. Undoing it just returns the default menu.
Sources
- How to bring back classic context menu on Windows 11 — by Mauro Huculak, Pureinfotech
- Source reviewed
- 2026-11-02
- Link checked
- 2026-11-02
- Tested hands-on
- Not by Oddbyte.Me
Oddbyte.Me hasn't tried this on every Windows build, so keep the undo handy.