Disable Win 11 explorer menu revert to Win 10 expanded

[darknkreepy3#]

Windows 11 has an interesting icon based [copy] [paste] [del] set of icons of the top of a right click choice in the menu system. It means well, but sometimes there are things missing and you have to go to [show more options] and it can get annoying very quickly.

FOR ALL USERS IN ON THE PC
Here are two registry hacks to [enable] and [disable] the windows 11 version of the explorer right click behavior.

Enable show more options context menu

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}]
@="File Explorer Context Menu"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\Windows.UI.FileExplorer.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

DOWNLOAD ENABLE ALL USERS REG http://www.supercala.net/phpBB3/_files/ ... _users.reg

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Disable show more options context menu

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}]
@="File Explorer Context Menu"

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InProcServer32]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InProcServer32]
@=""

DOWNLOAD DISABLE ALL USERS REG http://www.supercala.net/phpBB3/_files/ ... _users.reg

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FOR CURRENT USER ONLY IN ON THE PC

Enable show more options context menu

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}]

DOWNLOAD ENABLE CURRENT USER REG http://www.supercala.net/phpBB3/_files/ ... t_menu.reg

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Disable show more options context menu

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]
@=""

DOWNLOAD DISABLE CURRENT USER REG http://www.supercala.net/phpBB3/_files/ ... t_menu.reg