How to Bring Windows 10's Right-click Menu to Windows 11

This practical guide walks through how to bring Windows 10's right-click menu to Windows 11, explains the main requirements, and highlights common issues that may appear along the way.

Despite having a more modern and neat design, the new context menu causes many annoyances for users. It lacks familiar functions and has been changed in many places, confusing users who are used to the old context menu.

If you are among those who hate Windows 11's new context menu, join this guide to bring Windows 10's context menu back.

Details are as follows:

Using command line tools

Step 1: Right-click the Start button then select Windows Terminal.

Step 2: Copy the following command line and paste it into Windows Terminal and press Enter:

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

Step 3: When you see the words "The operation completed successfully", everything is done.

Step 4: You close Windows Terminal and then restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

Using the Registry

Step 1: Press Win + R to open Run then type regedit and press Enter to open Registry Editor.

Step 2: Access the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/CLASSES/CLSID/

Step 3: Create a new key with the name:

{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}

Step 4: In the key {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}, continue to create a new key named InprocServer32.

Step 5: In the InprocServer32 key, open the Default file and set its value to blank, then click OK and close the Windows Registry.

Restore the context menu of Windows 11

To restore the new Windows 11 context menu, just delete the key {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2} in the Registry Editor. You can do this by opening Windows Terminal then entering the command:

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

After deleting the key, remember to restart your computer for the change to take effect.

Good luck!