Policy

Disable context menus in the Start Menu

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.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Windows
CategoryStart Menu and Taskbar
Policy IDd75e7154f154
Internal nameDisableContextMenusInStart

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\DisableContextMenusInStart (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\DisableContextMenusInStart (disabled) = 0
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\DisableContextMenusInStart (enabled) = 1
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\DisableContextMenusInStart (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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.

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