How to get “old” Windows 10 right-click context menu in Windows 11

Open command prompt.

Set the “old” Explorer context right click menu as default

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /ve /f

Restart Windows Explorer

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe

That’s it!

If you want to restore the Windows 11 style.

reg.exe delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}" /f

Restart Windows Explorer

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe

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