Remove "Open in Terminal" from the right-click menu — via Winaero
Windows Terminal ships with Windows 11 and adds "Open in Terminal" to folder right-click menus. If you never use it, blocking its shell extension removes the entry. Terminal itself keeps working.
Restart Explorer (or sign out) to see it
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: Remove "Open in Terminal" from the right-click menu
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Blocked]
"{9F156763-7844-4DC4-B2B1-901F640F5155}"=""Undo
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; Oddbyte.Me: undo Remove "Open in Terminal" from the right-click menu
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Blocked]
"{9F156763-7844-4DC4-B2B1-901F640F5155}"=-Same thing from a command prompt
Run in an administrator Command Prompt or Terminal.
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Blocked" /v "{9F156763-7844-4DC4-B2B1-901F640F5155}" /t REG_SZ /d "" /fUndo:
reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Blocked" /v "{9F156763-7844-4DC4-B2B1-901F640F5155}" /fTerminal Preview has its own entry; block it too with the value {02DB545A-3E20-46DE-83A5-1329B1E88B6B} in the same key. Sign out and back in if restarting Explorer isn't enough.Sources
- 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.