We have already seen how to enable or disable right-click context menu in
Internet Explorer. In this post we will see how to enable
or disable right-click context menus in Windows Explorer or File Explorer
in Windows 8.
Enable
or disable right-click context menus in Explorer
Using Group Policy Editor
Those users who have the Group
Policy Editor included in their versions of Windows 8 may Run gpedit.msc
to open it. next navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates
> Windows Components > File Explorer. Windows 7 users may see Windows
Explorer being mentioned instead of File Explorer.
In the right pane, double-click on
Remove File Explorer’s default context menu to open its settings box.
This setting removes shortcut menus
from the desktop and File Explorer. Shortcut menus appear when you right-click
an item. If you enable this setting, menus do not appear when you right-click
the desktop or when you right-click the items in File Explorer. This setting
does not prevent users from using other methods to issue commands available on
the shortcut menus.
Select Configured > Apply. Exit
and restart your computer.
Using Registry Editor
You can also use the Registry Editor
to Enable or disable right-click context menus in Windows Explorer. To do so
Run regedit and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Right-click in the right pane and
create a new 32-Bit DWORD value and name it NoViewContextMenu. Giving it
a value of 1 will disable context menu in File Explorer. To
re-enable context menu, give it a value 0 or delete NoViewContextMenu.
