{"id":8307,"date":"2016-11-16T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2016-11-16T07:35:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:35:34","slug":"fix-right-click-context-menu-not-showing-responding-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-right-click-context-menu-not-showing-responding-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: Right-Click Context Menu Not Showing \/ Responding in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mouse right-click not working on your desktop or Windows Explorer? Whenever you try to right-click anything on the desktop or in Windows Explorer \/ Start Menu, you might see no response at all and the context menu won’t open. In this tutorial we’ll show you several methods to fix the problem of right-click context menu not showing \/ responding in Windows 10, 8 and 7.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Enable Windows Explorer’s Context Menu Using Group Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a chance that your Windows Explorer’s context menu is disabled by group policy setting. Here’s how to tweak it:<\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box. Type gpedit.msc<\/strong> and press Enter.\n

    \"gpedit\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. In the Local Group Policy Editor window, navigate to: User Configuration<\/strong> -> Administrative Templates<\/strong> -> Windows Components<\/strong>, and then click on File Explorer<\/strong> (or Windows Explorer<\/strong>).<\/li>\n
  3. On the right side of the window, scroll down until you see the setting “Remove Windows Explorer’s Default Context Menu<\/strong>“. Double-click on it to modify.\n

    \"explorer-context-menu-policy\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. Select either Not Configured<\/strong> or Disabled<\/strong>, and click OK<\/strong>. Reboot your computer and see if the right-click context menu now works.\n

    \"enable-explorer-context-menu\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you have no access to Local Group Policy Editor, please use this registry hack instead to enable Windows Explorer’s context menu:<\/p>\n

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    1. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box. Type regedit<\/strong> and press Enter.\n

      \"regedit-via-run\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    2. In the left pane of Registry Editor, browse down to the following key:
      \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\Explorer<\/code><\/li>\n
    3. Double-click the 32-bit DWORD value NoViewContextMenu<\/strong> on the right hand side, and set it to 0. (it will disable Windows Explorer’s context menu if you set NoViewContextMenu<\/strong> to 1)\n

      \"remove-explorer-context-menu\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Method 2: Remove Third-Party Shell Extensions from Context Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n

      The right-click menu not showing issue might be caused by Shell Extensions. To fix it, try to disable all third-party shell extensions from the right-click context menu. This can be done using the software CCleaner.<\/p>\n

      \"ccleaner\"<\/p>\n

      Head over to the Piriform website and download the free version of CCleaner. After running CCleaner, click the Tools<\/strong> section in the left hand side. On the right hand side, click Startup<\/strong> and then click Context Menu<\/strong>. From there you can disable or delete any third-party shell extensions.<\/p>\n

      Method 3: System Restore<\/strong><\/p>\n

      If you still couldn’t get the right-click context menu to work, restoring your system back to a previous working condition will be your good choice. To learn how to perform a system restore, please check out this article: Recover Unbootable Windows 10 or 8 with Restore Point.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Mouse right-click not working on your desktop or Windows Explorer? Whenever you try to right-click anything on the desktop or in Windows Explorer \/ Start Menu, you might see no response at all and the context menu won’t open. In this tutorial we’ll show you several methods to fix the problem of right-click context menu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39,5],"tags":[3119,3118],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","category-windows-vista","tag-right-click-not-responding-windows-10","tag-right-click-not-working-on-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","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=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}