How to enable the old context menu in Windows 11

1. Open Windows Terminal (Admin)

On your Win 11 OS, right-click on the Start button and select “Windows Terminal (Admin)” from the pop-up menu.

2. Enable Windows 11 old context menu

Now, on your Windows terminal, paste the below-given command and hit the Enter key. This will edit some value in the OS registry to get back the old context menu like Windows 10.

3. Restart File Explorer Service

To apply the changes we have done using the above command, we need to restart the Explorer service on your Win 11. For that, we can either use Task Manager or Windows terminal (which already opened).

Using Windows Terminal (Admin)

First Run:

Then type the next command to start the Windows explorer service again. In case, you want to switch between apps before starting the explorer service, use  – Alt+Tab keys

reg.exe add “HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32” /ftaskkill /f /IM explorer.exe

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe

start explorer.exe