Right-click Context menu in Windows 11

The behaviour of the Context menu on Windows 11 has changed compared to Windows 10.

This is how it used to be on Windows 10 (in this example, after a Right click on the recycle bin):

And this is how it looks now:

Especially the Show more options in the last line is annoying.

Thankfully one can revert to the old behaviour of Windows 10. All you have to do is to add a key to the registry.

To do so, Right click on the four blue tiles and select Terminal (Admin):

Then, run the command

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

After rebooting the Computer or restarting Explorer via Task Manager, you will have the “old” behaviour back.

That’s lovely. However, you sometimes have junk in the right-click context menu that is unwanted.

For example, I use the Image Viewer “IrfanView” but I do not like the fact that it added an entry to the context menu:

Here is how to edit/remove unwanted items from the context menu:

Right click on the four blue tiles and select Terminal (Admin), then type regedit and press <Enter>:

Select “Edit/Find” and look for “IrfanView”:

Now keep pressing <F3> until this…

and this…

… showed up. I deleted them both and the annoying entries were gone (after a Restart of Explorer).