There you have it, you can now get your old Windows right click menu back to where it always locates. You can simply download this tweak registry here and double click to apply the change.
I’ve also made your life easier if you don’t want to go through all the trouble to update a registry key value. Corrupt system files are also responsible for Windows explorer crashes on right click. If the problem with the right mouse button on the desktop persists. The solution was simple, an incorrectly restarted Windows did not solve the problem. If this issue still appears, you can repeat the above steps to enable the shell extensions again. Many Windows 11 and 10 users have complained that they cannot right-click the desktop or that nothing happens when they right-click the desktop. Notice, the context menu is now open to the right of the mouse rather than left as the default Windows 8.1 setting. Now, you can right-click on the desktop and check if the issue right click crashes explorer Windows 10 still persists. Now you can go anywhere on your desktop and try to right-click again. 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. Signout the computer or restart the machine (important, you must do this before seeing changes to take effect) 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. (Update: If you don’t see the key “MenuDropAlignment” or the key contains the value 0 that means, your version of Windows 8.1 doesn’t have the option menu launch to the left side behavior.) You will find a key called “ MenuDropAlignment” double click this key to update the value from 1 to 0. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Go to Start Menu > type ‘ regedit’ and launch Regedit.exe
Here is How to Move The Right-Click Option Menu to the Right of our Mouse Cursor For the rest of the people, this might not be a confortable change, and we have a solution for it. Search Windows security in Windows 10 search box. You will be able to create a new folder just like before.
I guess this change is welcome if you are a right hand user with a touch enabled devices. Check if you can create a new folder by right clicking on the desktop and then New> Folder. Because Windows 8 is designed for a touch based system, Microsoft has thought about change the default Right-Click Option or Context menu location, to open to the left side instead of right of the mouse cursors. One of the goal of Windows 8.1 is to make Windows 8 more user friendly. You can now use this icon to show your desktop no matter how many windows you have open. And finally there is no red bar - it is a very subtle stripe on the. It contains many fixes and improvements to address the issues based on the user feedback from the previous version – Windows 8. Once the Windows 10 show desktop icon is sitting on your taskbar, you can click and drag it to move it to another location if you want. With the task bar ensure you are right-clicking in an empty space (and not over an icon).
Windows 8.1 is overall a big patch to the previous Windows 8 release. Windows 8.1 is now available as a free upgrade if you are an existing Windows 8 user you can find the Windows 8.1 update in the Windows Store App.