This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable showing the "Customize menu" tip on the modern context menu for your account in Windows 11.
A context menu is a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears when you right click or press and hold on an item (ex: desktop, file, folder, drive, etc...) in Windows. A context menu can have menu items and sub-menus with a list of options or actions available for the item you right clicked on.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26340.9212 (Experimental 26H2) for Insiders, Microsoft is beginning to roll out an updated 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.
At the bottom of the new context menu, you’ll now find Customize menu, as a shortcut to its Settings page, where you can shape the menu around your preferences, your habits, or the years of muscle memory you’ve built with a specific configuration.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26340.9482 (Experimental 26H2) for Insiders, Microsoft added a new teaching tip you might see as a first-time experience to help you learn about the customization options.
Contents
- Option One: Disable Showing "Customize menu" Tip from Context Menu
- Option Two: Enable or Disable Showing "Customize menu" Tip using REG file
EXAMPLE: "Customize menu" Tip on modern context menu
You will only see the tip when you hover the pointer on "Customize menu" when "New" is showing.
1 Right click on something on your desktop or in File Explorer to open the context menu.
2 Perform either action to disable showing the "Customize menu" tip: (see screenshot below)
- Click/tap on Customize menu.
- Hover the pointer on Customize menu, and click/tap on the Dismiss button.
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.
2 Enable Showing "Customize menu" Tip
This is the default setting until dismissed.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Enable_Customize_menu_Tip.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]
"CustomizeMenuTipDismissed"=dword:00000000
"CustomizeMenuTipSessionCount"=dword:000000003 Disable Showing "Customize menu" Tip
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Disable_Customize_menu_Tip.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]
"CustomizeMenuTipDismissed"=dword:000000014 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
