Personalization Turn On or Off Move Properties to Bottom of Context Menu in Windows 11


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This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off moving Properties to the bottom of the modern context menu for your account in Windows 11.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26340.9212 (Experimental 26H2) for Insiders, Microsoft is beginning to roll out an updated Customize menu context menu experience in File Explorer, designed to feel faster, cleaner, and easier to tailor to the way you work. The new design reduces top-level clutter, keeps commonly used actions easy to access, and adds a new Settings experience that gives you more control over what appears in the menu. As Microsoft continues refining this experience with Insider feedback, their goal is to make right-click feel more responsive, predictable, and personal.

The Properties context menu item will open the properties page where you can view or change General, Digital Signatures, Security, Details, Location, Pervious Versions, Tools, Hardware, Sharing, Quota, Compatibility, Customize, etc... properties of a file, folder, or drive.

You can move Properties down to the very bottom of the modern context menu.

This does not affect the Shift + Right Click classic context menu.


If you don't have the new Customize menu context menu settings feature in the build above and would like to test it now, then you can use the vivetool command below to enable this feature.

vivetool.exe /enable /id:60813048




Contents

  • Option One: Turn On or Off Move Properties to Bottom of Context Menu in Settings
  • Option Two: Turn On or Off Move Properties to Bottom of Context Menu using REG file



EXAMPLE: Turn On or Off move Properties to bottom of context menu

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Option One

Turn On or Off Move Properties to Bottom of Context Menu in Settings


1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Personalization in the left pane, and click/tap on Context menu. (see screenshot below)


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3 Under Additional options, turn On or Off (default) Move Properties to the bottom of the context menu for what you want. (see screenshot below)

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4 You can now close Settings if you like.




Option Two

Turn On or Off Move Properties to Bottom of Context Menu using REG file


1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.

2 Turn On Move Properties to Bottom of Context Menu

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.​

Turn_ON_move_Properties_to_bottom_of_context_menu.reg​


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ContextMenu\Preferences\MoveProperties]
"Enabled"=dword:00000001

3 Turn Off Move Properties to Bottom of Context Menu

This is the default setting.


A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.​

Turn_OFF_move_Properties_to_bottom_of_context_menu.reg​


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ContextMenu\Preferences\MoveProperties]
"Enabled"=dword:00000000

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 If you have Smart App Control turned on, you will need to unblock the downloaded REG file.

6 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


 

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