Win Update KB5127936 Windows 11 Cumulative Update Preview build 26200.9818 (25H2) and 26300.9818 (26H2) - Oct. 28

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T12:06:14-0400

The new context menu, in a word, sucks! It removed several of my most useful utilities like Everything Search, nowhere to be found! And, it seems it pretty difficult to get rid of this useless feature completely. Is the only way to use a 3rd party utility?

KevTech · 2026-10-30T12:18:02-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
The new context menu, in a word, sucks!

I still use the classic context menu.

Never liked that "show more options".

Options 3, 4 or 5.

Enable or Disable "Show more options" context menu in Windows 11

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gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T14:03:39-0400

KevTech said:
I still use the classic context menu.

Never liked that "show more options".

Options 3, 4 or 5.

Enable or Disable "Show more options" context menu in Windows 11

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Those options no longer work. I tried 3, and 4 & 5 are already flagged as not working in current releases.

Josey Wales · 2026-10-30T14:06:24-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
The new context menu, in a word, sucks! It removed several of my most useful utilities like Everything Search, nowhere to be found! And, it seems it pretty difficult to get rid of this useless feature completely. Is the only way to use a 3rd party utility?

You are being Kind. This is worse than the first time they messed it up. Is MS trying to force users off Windows 11?

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T14:08:40-0400

Josey Wales said:
You are being Kind. This is worse than the first time they messed it up. Is MS trying to force users off Windows 11?

I don't know what they're doing, but I'm starting to think about putting Linux on one of the machines and seeing if I can get all my stuff running in that environment. I had Linux years ago, but I think it's come quite a ways since then, maybe it's time to consider it again.

Slavic · 2026-10-30T14:08:49-0400

garlin said:
I find it disappointing that Device security / Secure boot still doesn't provide a detailed breakdown of your Secure Boot certs or boot manager compliance. Just a pass/fail ranking, which isn't really helpful if you're out of compliance.

I agree, it's not that can be called the serious upgrade, merely the facelifting. Also I see again that Core Isolation shows a green tick but in my system the Memory integrity is switched off for better performance. At least, Device security should show here the green-yellow or yellow tick, it would be much more fair.

Josey Wales · 2026-10-30T14:10:17-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
I don't know what they're doing, but I'm starting to think about putting Linux on one of the machines and seeing if I can get all my stuff running in that environment. I had Linux years ago, but I think it's come quite a ways since then, maybe it's time to consider it again.

This is what happens when they use AI to program.

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T14:11:46-0400

Slavic said:
I agree, it's not that can be called the serious upgrade, merely the facelifting. Also I see again that Core Isolation shows a green tick but in my system the Memory integrity is switched off for better performance. At least, Device security should show here the green-yellow or yellow tick, it would be much more fair.

This is what you get when they make things to fit the lowest common denominator. You have to appease the lowest IQ user and not confuse them.

KevTech · 2026-10-30T14:27:23-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
Those options no longer work. I tried 3, and 4 & 5 are already flagged as not working in current releases.

It says insider builds not the current release.

Still working for me.

You have to reboot or restart Explorer for it to take affect.

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}]
@=""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]
@=""

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T14:37:08-0400

KevTech said:
It says insider builds not the current release.

Still working for me.

You have to reboot or restart Explorer for it to take affect.

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Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32] @=""

Like I said, that doesn't work. I entered those two into the registry, and restarted Explorer, and I still get this.

KevTech · 2026-10-30T15:12:17-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
Like I said, that doesn't work. I entered those two into the registry, and restarted Explorer, and I still get this.

You have the new context menu which I did not have as it is gradual rollout.

I enabled it with:

vivetool.exe /enable /id:60813048

Then my context menu was like yours so I then ran:

vivetool.exe /reset /id:60813048

Now I have my classic menu back.

I also read that if you have the new context menu you can invoke the old Win 10 style by holding down Shift.

Edit: just tested this and holding Shift works.

Without holding Shift I get the new context menu:

Holding Shift then right-click gets the Win 10 style menu:

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T16:10:01-0400

KevTech said:
You have the new context menu which I did not have as it is gradual rollout.

I enabled it with:

vivetool.exe /enable /id:60813048

Then my context menu was like yours so I then ran:

vivetool.exe /reset /id:60813048

Now I have my classic menu back.

I also read that if you have the new context menu you can invoke the old Win 10 style by holding down Shift.

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Edit: just tested this and holding Shift works.

Without holding Shift I get the new context menu:

View attachment 188325

Holding Shift then right-click gets the Win 10 style menu:

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Well, I ran that VIveTool reset, restarted Explorer, and I still get this.

KevTech · 2026-10-30T16:11:28-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
Well, I ran that VIveTool reset, restarted Explorer, and I still get this.

What happens if you hold down Shift then right-click?

Might need to disable that one and the others if it still does not work.

vivetool.exe /disable /id:60813048,61934903,49453572

Slavic · 2026-10-30T16:23:36-0400

This is my default right-click menu after the last update. I could try to add an option to change it in Registry, which may or may not work, but prefer to wait until normal rollout.

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T16:27:27-0400

KevTech said:
What happens if you hold down Shift then right-click?

Might need to disable that one and the others if it still does not work.

vivetool.exe /disable /id:60813048,61934903,49453572

What am I disabling here? I still have the Shift/right-click that gets all, but I don't want to kill that because that's the only thing that works right now!

wabbit · 2026-10-30T16:28:23-0400

I was going to pass on this update, but I decided to try it on my laptop. It took about 1/2 hr using WU with a few restarts, After running disk cleanup, the DISM /ScanHealth and sfc were good. Smart App Control seems to be fixed on this update.

I'll probably leave my other two machines on 26300.9711 until the next Patch Tuesday.

KevTech · 2026-10-30T16:35:32-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
What am I disabling here? I still have the Shift/right-click that gets all, but I don't want to kill that because that's the only thing that works right now!

Those three enable the new menu so disabling should revert.

Add or Remove "Customize menu" on Context Menu in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove "Customize menu" 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...

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asturias7 · 2026-10-30T16:45:32-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
Like I said, that doesn't work. I entered those two into the registry, and restarted Explorer, and I still get this.

View attachment 188312

Same for me after this latest update. I tried everything to no avail.

Anyhow, this damn update not only reset all my tweaks, it took 30 min after a couple of tries on my laptop and 3 hours on my desktop... definitely the slowest update to date, at least as regards my PCs. On the bright side, both SFC and DISM scans came up clean.

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T16:46:13-0400

KevTech said:
Those three enable the new menu so disabling should revert.

Add or Remove "Customize menu" on Context Menu in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove "Customize menu" 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...

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That just disabled my holding shift for the right click to get the full menu, so I enabled them again to get it back.

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-10-30T16:47:44-0400

Microsoft is really getting annoying with all these lame interface changes. Leave the damned thing alone and stop screwing up things ever couple weeks!!!

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