See our article for all the steps, but in brief you need to create a registry key called under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID and then create another key under that called InprocServer32 and finally set the Default value there to a blank space. However, as we explain in our article on how to get full context menus in Windows 11, there's a simple registry tweak that will bring the whole menu back. Of course, Windows 11's solution to this problem is to make you click a "Show more options" link which then gives you the classic context menu. txt file, Windows 11 did not give me an option to open it in Notepad++, a popular text editor I had installed. For example, when I tried right clicking on a. Windows 11's greatest crime against usability is its limited context menus which only show you a few options when you right click and often leave out the most important ones.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell\Update\Packages You can get there by hitting Windows key + R and typing regedit into the run box.Ģ. Make sure a third-party Start menu app is installed before you take these steps.ġ. If you're willing to live with the downsides, here are the steps for getting the Windows 10 taskbar in Windows 11. It also allows you to unlock the taskbar and drag it to the sides or top of the screen. However, if you don't use the classic taskbar, you can get those back in another way, which we'll explain in a section later. On the bright side, enabling the classic taskbar also gives you back the Windows 10 File manager (with ribbon) and the Windows 10 right click context menus.
You also must have a third-party Start menu installed, because clicking the Start button on the classic taskbar will do nothing on its own. However, you can search directly from the Start menu and hit Windows key + Tab to get the Task View menu. Considering that the Windows 11 taskbar's Task View and search buttons work, this is a loss of functionality.
The Task View button is worse than useless as it crashes when you click it, causing the taskbar to hide your icons for a minute or two while it recovers, so you should hide it also. There's a search box, but clicking it does nothing, and you may see a Cortana button that does nothing.
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