How to restore Right-Click Options in Windows 11?

One of Microsoft's most infuriating changes to Windows 11 is the redesigned right-click menus. The company removed most previously available options from the default view to make it more compact. However, it did keep the full list of options around. It moved them one layer deeper in the UI, forcing you to click “Show More Options” to see it.

Some of us have to use this every time we right-click, which is highly annoying. Thankfully, there’s a way to revert to the old menu permanently. All it involves is adding an entry to the registry via the command line. Here’s what you must do to get the old right-click menus back via Microsoft:

• Right-click the Start button and choose Windows Terminal
• Copy and paste this into the window: reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve
• Close Terminal

To see the changes, reboot your PC or restart File Explorer. You can restart it by killing it in Task Manager, then clicking "Run new task" and typing “explorer.exe” in the window without quotes.