{"id":12704,"date":"2018-09-05T06:29:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T06:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2018-09-05T06:33:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T06:33:29","slug":"remove-open-powershell-window-here-context-menu-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/remove-open-powershell-window-here-context-menu-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove “Open PowerShell window here” Context Menu in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Windows 10, you can access the “Open PowerShell window here<\/strong>” context menu by holding down the SHIFT<\/strong> key and then right-clicking a folder. This lets you quickly open PowerShell<\/a> in the current folder without having to change the working directory.<\/p>\n

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If you’re a fan of using Command Prompt rather than Windows PowerShell, let’s see how to remove “Open PowerShell window here<\/em>” context menu in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

How to Remove “Open PowerShell window here” Context Menu in Windows 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command. Type regedit<\/strong> and hit Enter.\n

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  2. Go to the following location in the Registry Editor window that appears:
    \nHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Directory\\shell\\Powershell<\/code><\/p>\n

    \tBy default, the “Powershell<\/strong>” key is protected and none of its values can be modified. You have to take ownership of this registry key<\/a> and assign full permissions to your account.<\/li>\n

  3. Right-click the “Powershell<\/strong>” key in the left pane and then select New<\/strong> -> String Value<\/strong>.\n

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  4. Name the new string “ProgrammaticAccessOnly<\/strong>“, and leave its value data empty.\n

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  5. Now you’ve successfully removed “Open PowerShell window here<\/em>” in the context menu when you press SHIFT and then right-click any folder.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want to continue removing “Open PowerShell window here<\/em>” from the right-click menu for Drives and Directory background, repeat the steps above for the following registry keys:<\/p>\n

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Directory\\Background\\shell\\Powershell
    \nHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Drive\\Background\\shell\\Powershell<\/code><\/p>\n

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    Whenever you need to restore the “Open PowerShell window here<\/em>” context menu, just delete the ProgrammaticAccessOnly<\/strong> entry from the above registry locations and you’re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On Windows 10, you can access the “Open PowerShell window here” context menu by holding down the SHIFT key and then right-clicking a folder. This lets you quickly open PowerShell in the current folder without having to change the working directory. If you’re a fan of using Command Prompt rather than Windows PowerShell, let’s see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1565,1894],"tags":[3954,3955],"class_list":["post-12704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-video-converter","category-windows-10","tag-open-powershell-window-here","tag-remove-open-powershell-here-context-menu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12715,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions\/12715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}