{"id":18300,"date":"2022-05-26T08:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T08:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=18300"},"modified":"2023-02-24T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T13:38:15","slug":"restore-old-ribbon-back-in-windows-11-file-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/restore-old-ribbon-back-in-windows-11-file-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Restore Old \/ Classic Ribbon back in Windows 11 File Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 11 comes with a new, simplified ribbon at the top of File Explorer. The new ribbon shows fewer icons and hides most of the icons, making it easier for touch-screen users to click with fingers.<\/p>\n

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If you don’t like the new, modern ribbon interface, you can restore the old \/ classic ribbon back in Windows 11 File Explorer with a simple registry tweak.<\/p>\n

Updated:<\/strong> This method doesn’t work with Windows 11 22H2 or newer version. But you can still use other methods to open the classic File Explorer with ribbon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How to Restore Old \/ Classic Ribbon back in Windows 11 File Explorer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Shell Extensions\\Blocked<\/code>. Right-click the blank area in the right pane and select New<\/strong> -> String Value<\/strong>.\n

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  2. Rename the new string to {e2bf9676-5f8f-435c-97eb-11607a5bedf7}<\/strong>, and leave its value data empty.\n

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  3. Log off and log back into your Windows account. The File Explorer with classic ribbon will come back.\n

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    If you want to use the new, simplified ribbon later on, just delete the {e2bf9676-5f8f-435c-97eb-11607a5bedf7}<\/strong> string you created.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Windows 11 comes with a new, simplified ribbon at the top of File Explorer. The new ribbon shows fewer icons and hides most of the icons, making it easier for touch-screen users to click with fingers. If you don’t like the new, modern ribbon interface, you can restore the old \/ classic ribbon back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[4898,4897,4900,4899],"class_list":["post-18300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-old-file-explorer-windows-11","tag-restore-classic-file-explorer-ribbon","tag-windows-11-classic-file-explorer","tag-windows-11-file-explorer-ribbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300","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=18300"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19534,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions\/19534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}