Windows 11 where is the search box that was in the lower left corner?

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Seems like a good place to share this. If you hate the right click menu, open cmd and paste

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

to restore the old style. Restart/close Explorer. If you want to revert

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

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The right-click menu of what?

There are hundreds of right-click menus in various MS products. And various parts of the Win11 UI.

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If I’m recognizing the registry key correctly, that restores the Windows 10 context menu in the file Explorer (right mouse button menu on a file in the file list).

The Win 11 version of that menu is abbreviated and hides a lot of common and useful features under a second “more options…” click.

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Yes, that’s right, MS dumbed down the Windows Explorer context menu. Using that registry hack was one of the first things I did after upgrading to Win 11.

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Explorer

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You can also use Shift+Right Click to go directly to the full pop up menu if you don’t like messing with the registry.