Updated: 2024-08-08 This method still works.

Windows 11 introduces a new more cohesive UI design but one of the casualties is the right-click or context menu in File Explorer and on the Desktop. You can still access the legacy Windows 10 style menu by clicking on “Show more options” or by using the shortcut key Shift + F10, but if you just want the old menu back by default, you just need to create a new registry key.

Copy and paste one of the commands below into a command prompt or a powershell console and after a reboot the old menu will be the default after a restart.

These commands create a new default key at the path specified.

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

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New-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}" -Name 'InprocServer32' -Force

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