Disable context menus in the Start Menu
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Category
Start Menu and Taskbar
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1803

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016

This policy allows you to prevent users from being able to open context menus in the Start Menu. If you enable this policy, then invocations of context menus within the Start Menu will be ignored.

Internal name
DisableContextMenusInStart
Policy ID
d75e7154f154
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value name
DisableContextMenusInStart
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKCU
1
HKLM
0
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Both
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value name
DisableContextMenusInStart
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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This policy has no additional user input fields.