Hold your console's shift key as you right-snap to see the old setting menus. This article makes sense of how for get back the old setting menu Windows 11 and reestablish the exemplary right-click usefulness from prior variants of Windows.

How to Access the Old Context Menus in Windows 11?

Access the Old Context Menus in Windows 11

Assuming that you're experiencing difficulty with the new setting menus in Windows 11, you can get to the old ones of every two unique ways. The most straightforward method for getting to the old setting menus in Windows 11 is to squeeze shift + right-click rather than perfectly clicking.

At the point when you press shift + right-click, the old setting menu will open rather than the upgraded one. This works all through Windows 11, so you can utilize it on the work area, record envelopes, documents, and different spots where you used to get to the old setting menus previously.

The alternate method for getting to old setting menus is to go through the new setting menu:

1: Right-click the work area, a record, or whatever gives the new setting menu.

A file highlighted on the Windows 11 desktop.

2: Snap show more choices.

Show more options highlighted in the new Windows 11 context menu.

3: The old setting menu will show up.

The old Windows 11 context menu.

How to Handicap the New Setting Menus in Windows 11?

Since the old setting menus are as yet open, adjusting the Windows Vault to keep the new setting menus from seeming will make the old ones show up all things being equal. There are multiple ways of achieving this, however they all basically break the new setting menus and keep them from showing up. This method isn't suggested on the grounds that it can have undesirable outcomes, however Microsoft gives no authority elective.

This is the way to bring back the old Windows 11 setting menus with a Vault alter:

1: Snap Search, type regedit, and click Library Proofreader.

The Registry Editor search result highlighted in Windows 11 search.

2: Explore to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID highlighted in Windows 11 Registry Editor.

3: Right snap CLSID > New > Key.

Key highlighted in Windows 11 Registry Editor.

4: Name the key {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2} and press Enter.

{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2} highlighted in Windows 11 Registry Editor.

5: Right snap {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2} > New > Key.

Key highlighted in Windows 11 Registry Editor.

6: Name the key InprocServer32, and press Enter.

InprocServer32 highlighted in Windows 11 Registry Editor.

7: Select InprocServer32 and click (Default).

InprocServer32 and Default highlighted in Windows 11 Registry Editor.

8: Set Worth name to default and tap the worth field, yet type nothing, then click alright.

Value date (blank field) and OK highlighted in Windows 11 Registry Editor.

9: Restart your PC.

What Happened to the Old Context Menus in Windows 11?

The old setting menus were supplanted by new ones intended to be more straightforward to utilize. At the point when you first open the menu, the most ordinarily utilized choices are set near your mouse's area.

Old Context Menus in Windows 11

The new menus work much the same way to the old menus and give comparable usefulness, yet they utilize symbols rather than words, and there are a few distinctions in usefulness.

The setting menu upgrade is planned to diminish mess and make the menus more straightforward to utilize, yet that isn't generally the situation. Some applications don't uphold the new setting menus, so the essential usefulness you're searching for will be missing from the menu, and you should choose 'show more choices' to get to the old-style menu.

On the off chance that an application you use much of the time doesn't uphold the new setting menus, you can contact the engineer and request that they add support or start squeezing shift + right-click all things considered.