ContextCleaner: see every entry in the Windows 11 right-click menu, and which app added it — on the Microsoft Store.

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The classic menu still exists.You can still edit it.

Windows 11 moved most traditional entries behind "Show more options" and gave you no way to manage them. That list is where the majority of accumulated clutter actually lives.

ContextCleaner lists every classic command in the "Show more options" menu, hides the ones you never use, and moves classic commands between the top of the menu and the overflow list.

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windows 11 & 10 · no regedit · snapshot before every apply · no network requests

If this sounds like your week

Most of your menu clutter is in the list you rarely see.

The Windows 11 compact menu shows a small curated set. Everything else — years of installed software, converters, scanners, "open with" variants — went into "Show more options". Out of sight, so it kept growing, and now the one list that contains the commands you actually need is also the longest.

Where tooling usually breaks

Two menus, and controls for neither.

Windows exposes no interface for either list. You cannot choose what appears where, you cannot hide an entry you never click, and you cannot reorder anything. The documented route is manual registry editing on a per-entry basis, which is a poor use of an afternoon and offers no way back if you delete the wrong key.

Where ContextCleaner lands

Manage the classic list as a list.

ContextCleaner shows the classic commands together, labelled with the app that registered each one and the click targets it applies to. You can hide entries without deleting them, remove third-party entries as a group, and move a classic command between the top of the menu and the "Show more options" list. Everything stages as pending, a snapshot is written before the apply, and undo is stored on disk.

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windows 11 & 10 · no regedit · snapshot before every apply · no network requests

What you get

Feature highlights

Sees all four menu surfaces

Classic commands, the COM add-ons installed apps register, Windows 11 modern and packaged items, and the New submenu—together in one searchable list.

Shows where every entry came from

Each row names the app, DLL, or package behind it, where it was discovered, and which file types it applies to.

Remove one or clear the whole view

Flip a single toggle, multi-select a batch, or remove every third-party entry in the current view with one button.

A dedicated New menu cleanup

Turn off the document types you never create. The file type keeps working—only the New-menu shortcut goes away, and it is a reversible rename.

Review before anything is written

Changes stage as pending until you press Apply, and machine-wide edits are batched into a single administrator prompt per apply.

Undo that survives restarts

Undo and redo are stored on disk rather than in memory—up to 25 steps each—alongside one-click snapshot restore.

A verifiable record of every change

A hash-chained (SHA-256) local audit log with a one-tap integrity check that reports the exact entry where the chain broke.

Private by default

No network requests at all, no account, no ads, no third-party analytics. Diagnostics exports replace personal folder names first.

Especially when

  • Remove entries from the Windows 11 right-click menu without opening Registry Editor yourself
  • Find out which app added a right-click entry, and why deleting a registry key did not remove it
  • Clean up the right-click New submenu without breaking the underlying file types

Who benefits

Real-world scenarios

The buried command

A classic command you use constantly sits inside "Show more options", so reaching it always costs an extra click.

You move it out of the overflow to the top of the menu. It is the one placement control Windows actually exposes, and it applies to classic commands.

The overflow nobody pruned

"Show more options" runs to thirty-plus entries, most from software you installed years ago and no longer think about.

You filter to third-party, review, and clear the group in one apply, with a snapshot written first and the whole batch undoable as one step.

The shift-only entry

A tool you use occasionally clutters the main list, but you do not want it gone entirely.

You move it into "Show more options" instead of hiding it, so it stays available without being in the way.

Deep dive

What the Windows 11 split actually did, and what you can change

Windows 11 introduced a new compact context menu built from a different mechanism than the traditional one. The compact menu is populated primarily by packaged apps declaring commands in their manifests, plus a fixed set of built-in Windows actions. The classic menu — reachable through "Show more options" — continues to be built from shell verbs and COM handlers in the registry, exactly as it was in Windows 10.

This is why the two lists feel arbitrary. They are not two views of one menu. They are two menus with different registration models, and an app appears in whichever one it registered for. An older application that never adopted the packaged model can only appear in the classic list, no matter how central it is to your workflow. A newer packaged app appears in the compact menu and often nowhere else.

That distinction sets a hard limit on what any tool can do, and it is worth being precise about it. You cannot move an entry from the classic list into the compact menu. Nothing can, because the compact menu is not built from the registrations the classic list uses. Any tool promising to "pin your favourites to the top" of the Windows 11 menu is describing something the platform does not offer.

What Windows does expose is the `Extended` flag on a classic shell verb. Setting it moves the command out of the immediately visible list and into the overflow; clearing it brings it back. ContextCleaner exposes exactly that, labelled as moving an entry between the top of the menu and "Show more options". It is one control on one surface, and it is the only placement mechanism there is. It does not reorder entries within a list — that ordering is decided by the shell and is not configurable.

Hiding is the broader lever. Any classic entry can be marked hidden rather than deleted, which removes it from the menu while leaving the registration intact. That is what makes the operation reversible: re-enabling clears the marker and the entry returns, with its command and icon untouched. ContextCleaner also clears the related flag some applications set to gate their own entries, so an entry you re-enable actually reappears rather than staying invisible for a second reason.

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FAQ

Straight answers—no glossary dump

What is the "Show more options" menu on Windows 11?

It is the classic Windows context menu. Windows 11 added a new compact menu in front of it and moved the traditional shell commands — the ones registered in the registry by installed software — behind that extra click.

Can I move an entry into the Windows 11 compact menu?

No, and no tool can. The compact menu is built from packaged app manifests rather than the classic registrations, so a classic entry has no way to appear there. What you can do is move a classic command between the top of the menu and "Show more options".

Can I reorder entries within the menu?

Not arbitrarily. The shell decides ordering within a list and does not expose it. The one placement control Windows offers for classic commands is whether an entry sits in the main list or in the "Show more options" overflow, and ContextCleaner exposes that.

Can I get the classic menu back as the default?

That is a separate Windows shell setting, not something ContextCleaner changes. ContextCleaner manages the contents of both menus rather than which one opens first.

What does it need to run?

Windows 11 or Windows 10, and the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime, which is already present on virtually all Windows 11 PCs. ContextCleaner does not install WebView2 for you. It runs as a standard user; only machine-wide entries need administrator approval, requested once per apply.

Is it private, and how do I get it?

ContextCleaner makes no network requests at all — it requests no networking permission from Windows, so there is no telemetry, no analytics, no ads, and no account. Snapshots and change history stay on your PC. It is a one-time purchase on the Microsoft Store; use the Microsoft Store button on this page for the current listing and price.

Related pages

The compact menu has entries registry tools cannot see. Reordering the right-click menu: what is actually possible. Remove the right-click entries you never use. Your menu is too long. Here is the order to cut it.

Every right-click entry,
and the app that put it there.

ContextCleaner scans all four surfaces Windows builds the right-click menu from—classic commands, app add-ons, Windows 11 modern and packaged items, and the New submenu—names the app behind each entry, and lets you remove what you never use without opening Registry Editor. A snapshot is written before each apply, and undo survives restarts.

Pay once. Own it forever.

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Technical specifications

Technical specifications for procurement

Spec Implementation
Data Sovereignty Menu edits, snapshots, and the full change history stay on your PC; diagnostics exports replace personal folder names first
Telemetry Status None; no account, no ads, no third-party analytics
Core Runtime Tauri 2 + Rust native Windows app; requires the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime, which it does not install for you
Network Requirements Makes no network requests at all and requests no networking permission from Windows
Deployment Compatibility Windows 11 and Windows 10; no version gating, so Windows 10 simply shows fewer modern and packaged entries. Microsoft Store
Scope All four menu surfaces: classic commands, COM app add-ons, Windows 11 modern and packaged items, and the New submenu
Provenance Each entry names the app, DLL, or package behind it, where it was discovered, and the file types it applies to
Reversibility Snapshot written before each apply (the apply stops if it cannot be saved), one-click restore, and disk-persisted undo and redo up to 25 steps each
Guardrails Entries File Explorer depends on are protected from removal even by bulk actions; machine-wide edits use one administrator prompt per apply
Accountability Tamper-evident, hash-chained (SHA-256) audit log with one-tap integrity verification, stored only on your PC
Access System tray presence with a customizable hotkey and Ctrl+K quick actions across 14 rebindable shortcuts
Approximate size 30 MB installed or less