Win11 - Removing Overhead Original Context Menu and More

README.md

Removing Win 11 Overhead Garbage

• Start Menu - Disable Search Suggestions from the Web
• Context Menu
  • Orginal (expanded) Context Menu
  • Restoring Simplified Menu
• Recycle Bin - Remove "Pin to Quick Access"

Disable Search Suggestions from the Web

1. Open Registry Editor as admin
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows.
3. Right-click on the Windows key, select New, then Key, and name it Explorer.
4. Click on the new Explorer key. Right-click in the right pane, select New, then DWORD (32-bit) Value, and name it DisableSearchBoxSuggestions.
5. Double-click DisableSearchBoxSuggestions and set the Value data to 1.
6. Click OK, close the Registry Editor
   • Kill, Explorer and relaunch it
   • Or, restart your computer

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

1. Run the following command in Command Prompt (Admin):

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

2. 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

Recycle Bin - Remove 'Pin to Quick Access'

1. Create a PinQuickAccess-RecycleBin.reg
2. Copy/paste one of the following
3. Run the file.

Remove from menu

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Folder\shell\pintohome]
"AppliesTo"="System.ParsingName:<>\"::{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\""

Restore menu

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Folder\shell\pintohome]

Win11-CreateUser.md

Create local user account when installing Win11

Press Shift + F10 to open a Command Prompt

Execute: start ms-cxh:localonly