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This is the most terrible, stupid, and annoying thing Microsoft has ever designed into a UI.
They've completely abandoned us power users here, and even normal users.
Get rid of that stupid 'Show more Options' button and give us everything relevant to the element we're right clicking at the start, or give us an option to toggle it off so everyone gets the best of both worlds.
Having to use third party tools to hack up the UI to bring back the Windows 10 context menu is an atrocious bandaid many have been applying to fix this.
What would be even more amazing, which baffles me isn't an easily accessable thing, is the option to EDIT your right click context menu, and to uninstall / disable things that some programs attach to it.
Come on Microsoft.. at this rate, Windows 12 will be the curse of the computing world.
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I was forced in to the windows 11 "upgrade" on my work computers.
Stupid and aggravating changes that just make things harder. Wrecking right click is one of them. Are they trying to force people off of mouse usage?
"you'll get used to it," I'm told. "You'll get used to it," is a pretty poor defense of these "upgrades."
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You can also use this free, open source tool I wrote that will apply the registry entry for you:
https://lesferch.github.io/SwitchExplorer/
Also, as others have noted, holding down the Shift key when right-clicking will give you the classic context menu.
hello emily, the first time i ran the command it came back invalid, i noticed windows was saying type "REG ADD /?" so i typed in REG ADD all caps & pasted your command without the lower case reg add. it worked that time. sneaky windows tryna prevent people from doing that by changing the command... lols
I just hold down shift while right clicking to get to the "real" menu
Here is a decent replacement right click menu.
Replace the Windows 11 Right Click Context Menu with Shell Menu
This is the most terrible, stupid, and annoying thing Microsoft has ever designed into a UI.
They've completely abandoned us power users here, and even normal users.
Get rid of that stupid 'Show more Options' button and give us everything relevant to the element we're right clicking at the start, or give us an option to toggle it off so everyone gets the best of both worlds.
Having to use third party tools to hack up the UI to bring back the Windows 10 context menu is an atrocious bandaid many have been applying to fix this.
What would be even more amazing, which baffles me isn't an easily accessable thing, is the option to EDIT your right click context menu, and to uninstall / disable things that some programs attach to it.
Come on Microsoft.. at this rate, Windows 12 will be the curse of the computing world.
I agree with all of the above!!!!
