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Win11 Original Context Menu and More
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README.md

Win 11 Context Menu

Windows 11 simplified right-click context menu loads slower and you have to click, "Show more options". To normally bypass this, hold shift and right-click (or press Shift + F10) to access the full legacy menu.

The new "simplified" menu loads slower (noticable on corporate laptops) as MS slopped in JS for .. .. don't know why.

Orginal Context Menu

Run the following command in Command Prompt (Admin):

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86CA1AA0-34AA-4E8B-A509-50C905BAE2A2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

Restart Windows Explorer:

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe & start explorer

Restoring Simplified Menu

NOTE: To restore the default context menu, delete {86CA1AA0-34AA-4E8B-A509-50C905BAE2A2} key from the Registry and restart Explorer.

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}" /f
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Win11-CreateUser.md

Create local user account when installing Win11

Press Shift + F10 to open a Command Prompt

Execute: start ms-cxh:localonly

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