This tutorial will show you how to add or remove Print on 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.
When you right click on a file that supports printing, you can use the Print context menu item to send it to the printer as a print job.
Print doesn't appear on the modern context menu by default in Windows 11, but you can add it.
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.
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Contents
- Option One: Add or Remove Print on Context Menu in Settings
- Option Two: Add or Remove Print on Context Menu using REG file
EXAMPLE: Print on modern context menu
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Personalization in the left pane, and click/tap on Context menu. (see screenshot below)
3 Under File actions, turn On (add) or Off (remove - default) Print for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.
2 Add Print to Context Menu
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Add_Print_to_context_menu.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ContextMenu\Preferences\verbs\print]
"Enabled"=dword:000000013 Remove Print from 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.
Remove_Print_from_context_menu.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ContextMenu\Preferences\verbs\print]
"Enabled"=dword:000000004 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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