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Enable Full Context Menu in Windows 7 When Multiple Files Are Selected
The default context menu in Windows 7 changes when users select a larger number of file, and they’ll be able to notice that some of the options disappear.
Context menus appear by right-clicking a single file or a selection of items. Normally, in Windows Explorer, users will be able to execute commands such as Open, Print and Edit.
But all these options are no longer featured if customers select and then right-click on 15 files or more. Microsoft explains that the shortened context menu is not the result of a bug.
“This is by design. These context menu items will not appear if selecting more than 15 items to avoid accidentally performing these actions on a large number of files,” the company said.
Windows 7 is not the only Windows client displaying this behavior but also its predecessors. Microsoft has detailed a very simple workaround to this issue, but since it involves a registry hack, it’s not for everybody.
Customers need to fire up regedit, and navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer. Here they’ll find the MultipleInvokePromptMinimum key which needs to be modified.
The default context menu in Windows 7 changes when users select a larger number of file, and they’ll be able to notice that some of the options disappear.
Context menus appear by right-clicking a single file or a selection of items. Normally, in Windows Explorer, users will be able to execute commands such as Open, Print and Edit.
But all these options are no longer featured if customers select and then right-click on 15 files or more. Microsoft explains that the shortened context menu is not the result of a bug.
“This is by design. These context menu items will not appear if selecting more than 15 items to avoid accidentally performing these actions on a large number of files,” the company said.
Windows 7 is not the only Windows client displaying this behavior but also its predecessors. Microsoft has detailed a very simple workaround to this issue, but since it involves a registry hack, it’s not for everybody.
Customers need to fire up regedit, and navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer. Here they’ll find the MultipleInvokePromptMinimum key which needs to be modified.
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