One of the most annoying things about Windows 11 is its new context menu, and having to click on show more options frequently, in this tutorial you will learn how to restore the old context menu on Windows 11.
First start the notepad by searching for it
Then right click anywhere, copy and paste this code in notepad:
reg add “HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32” /f /ve
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
Then click on file followed by save as
Then name the file anything such as “Windows 11 Classic Context Menu” and add (.cmd) at the end of it’s name without the brackets, and save the file wherever you want
Then locate and run that file you just saved by double clicking on it, Windows file explorer will then restart and the classic context menu from previous versions of Windows will be back
To undo the changes make another .cmd file with notepad and paste this code in it
reg delete “HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}”
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
Then save the file and run it, you will get a confirmation window like this, just type yes and press enter
And you will have the Windows 11 context menu back
