If you’ve ever poked around Windows’ innards, you probably stumbled on the Windows Registry — the sprawling hierarchical database that quietly governs countless system behaviors. What many users don’t realize is that the Registry is part museum piece, part power tool: it’s older than most of the...
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File Explorer in Windows 11 is powerful, but out of the box it includes modern context-menu cruft, pinned pages, and automatic folder sniffing that can slow and clutter everyday navigation — the eight Registry tweaks below strip away the noise, speed up browsing, and restore classic behaviors...
Recently I used the known tweak to enable the full context menu in Windows 11 on my work laptop, and it worked as advertised, no problems at all. I understand that this tweak will only change the context menu for the currently logged in user (ME), hence modifying HKCU....
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