09/11/2023

[Windows 11] Default show more options explorer right click menu (old UI behavior)

One change with Windows 11 is that the right click menu in Explorer was replaced with some condensed version where the old behavior is hidden behind a "Show more options" entry. This makes some actions slower to find and quite annoying, for example 7-zip or Notepad++

To revert it to the nicer old UI you can delete the value of this registry key (for example via regedit):

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InProcServer32

Key (Default)(its old value should be C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.FileExplorer.dll, just remove it)

You then need to restart explorer process or logout and login again or reboot the computer for this change to be applied.

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