Windows 11 Tweaks, Fixes and Modifications [Overview]

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To copy a directory and its contents (files) to another directory, for example, the Test directory from C:\Divers\Test vers D:\Myfile
Is this the "cleanest" command ?

xcopy C:\Divers\Test D:\Myfile\Test /e

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I use this:

Code:

Get-Item -EA 4 -Force -Path @("HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Classes","HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations")
    | Get-ChildItem -EA 4 -Force -Exclude @("SystemFileAssociations")
    | Get-ChildItem -EA 4 -Force -Include @("Shell")
    | Get-ChildItem -EA 4 -Force -Include @("print","printto")
    | Remove-Item   -EA 4 -VB -Recurse -Force -WhatIf # Remove the -WhatIf if you want to do the actual removal of the context menu entries

 

@evissing Thanks

I have another request, I'm modifying a registry key for Edge (adding "flags"), but sometimes, after an update, the key name changes partially, and the REG file is no longer valid.
Isn't it possible with an command line to recognize part of the key and still be able to apply it every time ?

This is the key and in bold what can change
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\MSEdgeSSHTM.SP7KWQGIB46RITNUE4GU4U7EXY]

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Restore the old Context Menu in Windows 11

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

 

No. I don't want old context menus. I just want to hide these 2 entries by blocking them in reg.

 

Oh ok

 

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Setting default browser and email client.
Since the introduction of Edge and Outlook, Microsoft has made it increasingly difficult to set your default
browser and email client to third party apps. It is particularly difficult with portable browsers, which usually don't create
a default option when they are extracted into Windows. In the past, I have used registry hacks to accomplish
this. But today, Powershell scripts (which I am still learning) are the way to go. I have attached two scripts to
set your default browser and email client. Just enter your browser and email paths and remove the ".txt" extension and execute as a Powershell script.

 

Apologies in advance if there's an obvious way I'm missing to navigate the forums to get to an answer.
Coming from Win7 after having finally been cornered into complying with running Win11, is there a way to get the desktop right click context menu to look like Win7/Win10's context menu? I know you can get to that context menu version by clicking the "Show more options" option at the bottom, I'd just like that view to be the default. I would also like the task bar to be left justified instead of centered, and I'd also love it if the Start menu looked more like Win7's Start menu.

tl;dr I guess I want to know if there's a way to get Win11 to look and act like Win7, has anyone compiled a list of registry tweaks to do so?

 

Disable Show More Options Context Menu
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /ve /d "" /f

The starting position can be changed in the settings.

 

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It's not the appearance that's the problem, it's the efficiency of the work.

 

For example, in the case of the context menu, all of the items registered by the user were moved to a submenu in the name of making it easier to see, but this was a complete disregard for user operability.
If they wanted to make it easier to see, the first thing they should have done was create a setting that allowed users to optionally hide many of the items registered by default.
But instead of doing that, they made changes that ignored user wishes, which I think is why many people are dissatisfied.

 

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