Danny Moran

How to restore the classic right-click context menu for Windows 11 (Revert to Windows 10 Style)

Published March 04, 2023 by Danny Moran

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Introduction

Learn how to revert the default right-click context menu in Windows 11 to the way it was in Windows 10. In this example, I show you how to use a registry key to revert the Windows 11 context menu to how it was in previous versions of Windows.

How to restore the classic right-click context menu for Windows 11 (Revert to Windows 10 Style) video

How to restore the classic right-click context menu for Windows 11 (Revert to Windows 10 Style)

To revert the Windows 11 right-click context menu to the classic menu used in previous versions of Windows, run the following command and restart the computer.

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

How to restore the right-click context menu to the default Windows 11 style

To revert the Windows 11 right-click context menu back to the Windows 11 default style, run the following command and restart the computer.

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