How to disable Show More options in Windows 11. Windows 11 cleaned up the right-click menu, but for a lot of power users and IT teams, that cleaner menu comes at a cost. Today, we'll show you how to bring back the classic context menu, whether you're fixing one machine or rolling it out to thousands. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to NinjaOne's IT Video Hub and our YouTube channel for more tech content like this. Preview the classic context menu in Windows 11. Before you change anything, let's confirm this is actually worth doing. Hold Shift and right-click your desktop or select an item and press Shift + F10. That opens the classic menu. If your team lives in this view all day, it's time to make it the default. How to disable Show More options in Windows 11. Method one: use the registry editor. The core fix lives in the registry. First, open the registry editor as an administrator and navigate to this location: HKEY Current User\Software\Classes\CLSID. Create a new key and name it this. Inside that, create another key called this. Leave its default value blank. Restart File Explorer, or just sign out and back in, and the classic menu is now your default. Method two: use a .reg file. Doing this by hand on every machine isn't realistic, so package it. Open Notepad, paste in this registry script, and save it with a .reg extension. From there, run the .reg file to merge the changes into the registry, then restart File Explorer or reboot the machine. Method three: use PowerShell. For IT teams who want speed and repeatability, PowerShell gets it done in four lines. Just open PowerShell as an administrator and run this script. The change takes effect after File Explorer restarts, and you can verify with a quick right-click. Method four: use Group Policy Preferences. For organizations managing this across a domain, Group Policy Preferences is the way to go. First, open the Group Policy Management Console with administrative privileges and navigate to this location: User Configuration\Preferences\Windows Settings\Registry. Then, create a new registry item with the following details. Link the GPO to your target OU and run this command: gpupdate /force on client machines. The classic context menu will roll out consistently. How to restore the modern context menu in Windows 11. If you change your mind, rolling back is just as simple. Open the command prompt as an admin, run this command, and restart File Explorer or reboot your machine. Staying ahead of Windows updates. One last thing worth knowing. Cumulative updates can quietly reset this behavior, even if the registry key is still sitting there untouched. So build a habit. After major updates, do a quick right-click check. If the old menu is gone, just reapply the fix. Overall, with the classic context menu restored, you can keep your Windows interface consistent and under your control, one click or policy at a time. For more information, check out our official blog post on disabling the Show More Options context menu item linked in the description below.