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How to add a new option to context menu?
- Right-click on the shell key (or any other key depending on context) and select New > Key. Name the new key whatever you want to display in the context menu.
If it ever worked, the solution definately does not work with the latest Windows 11 update, 01/2025. All I want is for the super common task "Print" to appear in the modern context menu,, preferably at the top ribbon, next to the often useless "Share". Having to click "more options" or use the classic menu via StartAllBack checkbox is not what I want. The new context menu is not so bad, except for "Print" missing and the total lack of customization options, despite all efforts exhausted in regedit. If PowerToys can do it, great, already installed. Otherwise, this is a daft design decision. Really?! No one would want to PRINT a file with 2 clicks (right-click>print) instead of 3 clicks or more (right-click, more options, print? Whether print to PDF or to paper, or to default printer...this makes no sense. Currently only solution is to "use classic context menu" with StartAllBack but its cluttered AF, which was the point of the modern menu. I tried with ChatGPT help, it seems to be going off of this article or other similar ones, but Windows 11 has changed the way this works, it seems.
right-click>print ... is that so hard?
yes times 1000. This is like "File Save As" mess where browsing for a folder is now a multiclick sub process. Microsoft clutters everything with the SHARE and CLOUD LOCATION garbage that is ALMOST NEVER USED while taking away basic simple functionality that users have been using for decades.