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Windows 11 Right Click Menu - Enable and Disable the old/legacy menu with PowerShell
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Enable and Disable the Legacy Right-Click Menu

Use these commands to enable or disable the legacy right-click menu.

Reason

I wanted a pure PowerShell way to edit the registry since most I saw used reg.exe.

Usage

Usage Enable-LegacyRightClickMenu.ps1 to have the old right-click menu back.

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Disable-LegacyRightClickMenu.ps1
Get-Item "HKCU:\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
Restart-Computer -Confirm
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Enable-LegacyRightClickMenu.ps1
New-Item "HKCU:\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" -Force | Set-ItemProperty -Name "(default)" -Value ""
Restart-Computer -Confirm
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