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How to restore full context menus

When you open windows explorer in windows 11 and right click on file, a new context menu will display. It looks like this:

Some retarded person in Microsoft decided that average Windows user IQ is dropping on daily basis and it will be easier for him (idiot user…) to choose between icons rather than read text.

If you are not the average user and you want your menu text back, you can do the following.

Open Regedit
Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID create new key with this name: {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}
open newly created key and create a ne one named InprocServer32
Open InprocServer32 key and double-click the (Default) registry entry and then hit Enter without typing anything to set its value to blank.

Restart esplorer or Windows and check explorer context menu…

It should look like this:

microsoft/desktop/win_11/context_menu.1649654519.txt.gz · Last modified: 2022/04/11 05:21 by rplecko