Windows 11: Restore old context menu

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The context menu of files and folders received an update with Windows 11. This is ambiguous: on the one hand, it keeps the overview, on the other hand, it deprives you of functions. Thanks to our tips, you don't have to accept that.

As you probably know, the menu that you open by right-clicking on a file, a folder or even a word in a text program is called the context menu. Depending on the context - i.e. the situation - this menu provides some commands that are just right. The situation is similar with the ribbon menu bar, which Windows 8 introduced in the file manager and which is no longer there with Windows 11. If you miss the ribbons, you can unlock them with a few hacks: see the article “ Windows 11: Activate Ribbon Explorer – this is how you bring back the ribbon menu ”. Microsoft has redesigned various context menus in Windows 11 in addition to the file manager.

With this, the system provider tackled a problem that plagued users up to and including Windows 10: Many programs are not only set up in the file system when they are installed, but also in the registry. In the latter, they often create entries that integrate into one or more context menus. Such shell extensions (shell extensions) show software-specific entries in the right-click menu of your files, folders and drives (or they offer you functions after right-clicking on an empty desktop or explorer space).

The tricky thing: If you have too many programs installed, you run the risk of the context menu taking on excessive proportions. The explorer.exe process may even crash and make Windows unstable . Microsoft counteracts this with a second, standard context menu. It opens with a right click on all system areas mentioned above in the article. The new menu is clear and cannot be easily manipulated or expanded by software installers, but it is not completely absent either.

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