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We all know what the right click context menu is in Windows and how it works. At it's best, the menu can be a hugely valuable resource to get certain tasks accomplished more quickly than digging through programs and their settings to do the same thing. But what if this menu is getting in your way for some reason and you want to disable it?

There are various extensions for different browsers which help you get back the right click feature. One such browser extension for Google Chrome, that enables the right click feature is RightToCopy. So that's how simple you can hack into a website that has disabled the right click feature and copy its contents. To Enable Mouse ClickLock in Windows 10, Open the Settings app. Navigate to Devices Mouse. On the right, click on the Advanced Mouse Settings link. In the Mouse Properties dialog, switch to the Buttons tab. It should open by default. Turn on (check) the option Turn on ClickLock under the. .Note: In order to enable this extension for InPrivate mode, you need to give it permission via the Extensions - Right Click Enhancer - Allow for InPrivate Browsing. This extension doesn't have any tracking at all, but you should always be cautious with your private browsing. Show More. On the 'Right click' settings page, you can remap the right button click into: Right-click (default) – keep the default right-click action. Click – change it into a left-click action for those who are left-handed people. If you click on the +, it had it to your list for seiing it later, if you click on the 3 dots you can choose the quality outpu and many others thing. If you buy a mouse, you need the cable adaptor Micro-USB/USB if it is a USB mouse. Sorry for the picture this is a wireless mouse, the mouse is not attached to the cable.

Perhaps you or your children are playing games in a browser and keep accidentally right clicking when you don't want to, or you just don't want somebody inexperienced to have access to the quick options of renaming or deleting something on the desktop in case they delete something they shouldn't. Disabling the right click of the mouse might sound like a simple thing, but you can't just press a button in Windows to turn it off without a piece of 3rd party software or going deeper into the system settings.

Here's a selection of 5 solutions to enable you to turn off the right click of the mouse so the context menu isn't called and can't be triggered by accident.

1. Via the Registry

There's a registry entry you can add to disable the mouse right click. This only works on the desktop and Explorer though and doesn't affect any programs, you can also still right click on the task bar and control the tray programs via right click. This obviously isn't the best solution around but it does provide a small level of desktop protection over accidentally doing something via the Explorer context menu.

1. Go to Start -> Run or press Win key+R and type Regedit, then hit Enter. Navigate to the following key in the registry:

  • HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

2. Right click on the Explorer key and select New -> DWORD Value.

3. Give it the name NoViewContextMenu and click OK. Then double click the name and set the value data as 1. Press OK. To set it back again simply set this value back to 0 or right click on the NoViewContextMenu entry and delete it. You will need to log off or reboot for any of these changes to take effect.

Adding the registry tweak above will disable the mouse right click for all users on the computer. If you only want to disable for the currently logged in user, you should navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE:

  • HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

For ease of use and to save you going into the registry we have created these keys in easy to run .reg files which simply need to be double clicked on.

Disable Right Click for All Users

Re-enable Right Click for All Users

Disable Right Click for Current User

Re-enable Right Click for Current User

2. Kid Key Lock

Kid Key Lock has been mentioned before in our article about Restricting or Disabling Keyboard and Mouse Buttons, but can be setup to only disable the right click function in Windows. Of course if you want, other mouse buttons such as left click, middle click, double click and the scroll wheel can be disabled also. Simply open the program and tick the mouse button boxes you wish to disable and press OK. The program's little padlock tray icon will flash whenever a locked button is pressed and you can quickly change the locks by left clicking on the tray icon and going to the Locks sub menu.

It would have been more useful if the password option could be used to lock the setup options screen in case you want to stop the user enabling the mouse buttons again, but that option is only of benefit when completely locking the keyboard. If you don't want any keyboard restrictions make sure to turn the keyboard locks slider in options all the way to the left. There is a portable version and also an ad supported installer version available.

Download Kid Key Lock

3. Using an AutoHotKey script

AutoHotKey is used for creating scripts and macros and can automate a large number of tasks in Windows if you take a bit of time and patience to learn how it works. In its most basic form, AutoHotKey can disable the mouse right click functionality with just 1 line of code, which is:

RButton:: return

That just tells the script to intercept the right mouse button and then do nothing with it. Although the right click is disabled, you can still Shift right click in Windows or to exit the script. With a bit more creativity and know-how you can obviously add other things to the script such as disabling the tray icon, adding a password to turn it on and off etc.

If you want to try it out, here's a compiled script with just that 1 line.

Download DisableRightMouseClick

4. Mouse Disabler

Mouse Disabler is like a slightly simpler version of Kid Key Lock and just shows the tick box options to disable the left, right and double clicks with a few others you might find useful such as mouse movements and the scroll wheel. The Disable Keyboard Keys option will turn off the most basic keyboard input. Actions are applied as soon as you tick the box and the program doesn't close to the tray or disappear into the background, but instead simply minimizes to a task bar icon. Even though Mouse Disabler needs installing you can copy its executable and Helper.dll from program files to make it portable. The odd thing is the uninstaller application is 10 times bigger than the utility itself!

Download Mouse Disabler

5. BasicMouse

This is a shareware utility called BasicMouse and BasicBoard, which used to be called BabyMouse, that allows you to easily restrict several functions of the computer mouse and keyboard. The right mouse button can be disabled, all buttons can be set to send left-clicks, mouse clicks can be restricted to a particular area of the screen etc. Recent versions restrict the program to a 30 day trial which costs $7.95 to activate, but older versions only limit some of the features to 5 minutes use and disabling the right click is free to use. Simply run this older program and it will sit in the system tray for as long as you like disabling the mouse right click without needing to touch any of the time limited functions. The downside is it also disables the scroll wheel as well which you might not want.

Download BasicMouse Free Disable Right Click version

You might also like:

8 Ways To Disable or Lock the Keyboard and Mouse Buttons6 Ways To Disable or Remap the Caps Lock Key On Your KeyboardDisable Removable Storage Devices such as USB Drives5 Tools To Enable Mouse Gestures in your Favorite Programs10 Ways to Browse the Internet and Use your Computer Without a Mouse or TouchPad

Christine2 years ago

Nº 3. Using an AutoHotKey script. He gives a link to download the script and try it but then he puts a password in it and don't show it. Is this stupid???

Reply

P.S. I disabled the right-click button by jamming a paper clip into the small space between the button's up and down positions. That low-tech solution seems to be working well so far. It may work loose eventually, but it's pretty firmly in there at the moment, and it's jammed into the front of the mouse where my hand never is. Even if the paper clip does pop out occasionally, it will be easy to jam it back in, and that sure beats having to click on the screen to get rid of unwanted menus that keep popping up all the time, because I have to have my hand on the mouse and if I do that, it's very hard to completely avoid the right button continually. I've put up with the right click button for a very long time, and it was always a real pain. I wish I'd thought of this solution right away. Benjamin Franklin would probably have realized almost immediately what he should do to get rid of the annoyance, but he was always thinking and I'm not.

Reply
Geoff Arrowsmith3 years ago

Somebody less lazy and more entrepreneurial than myself should produce and sell a mouse with a little switch that can quickly be moved left or right, to enable or disable the right-click button. The switch should be in front of the mouse, out of the plane of where person puts his fingers naturally when using a mouse, or one would be flipping the switch back and forth accidentally which would be no help at all. Such a mouse might sell like hot cakes. I'd buy one if it wasn't exorbitantly priced. It would be easier than sticking a paper clip into the right=clip gap when I want to play '24.7 spades', or look through lists without unexpectedly highlighting everything and its brother, or try work with anything where the right click button triggers 'helpful' popup menus all the time as I move my mouse around.

Reply

Pure genius. Thank you, Geoff!
You got me thinking…I stuck the corner of a 3M poster mounting sticky square into the slot and since it's sticky, it won't slip out! :-)

Reply
Randy Knowles8 months ago

Beautiful and elegant! Change your name to Benjamin.

Reply

Mouse Disabler is a very dangerous program for amateurs. I installed it then, due to inattention, I checked 'disable left mouse' instead of 'disable right mouse'. After that, I couldn't do anything because the left mouse button is needed for almost everything. After playing around for half an hour, including rebooting in SAFE mode (which didn't help), I finally got to the program location and deleted the program. Now my computer works again. I'd like to tell you how I finally managed to delete the program from my computer, but I don't remember how I did it. There's no way I'm going near this program again with a ten-foot pole though. That mistake is too easy to make and too hard to rectify. I still want to disable my right mouse button, because it keeps popping up menus and highlighting stuff, which is a royal pain in the you-know what. It's very hard – impossible really – to avoid touching it all the time. I don't use the right mouse button for anything at all, so if I could just glue it in place that would almost be an acceptable solution for me. I'll look around some more for something not as dangerous, though.

Reply
ChingghisKhan4 years ago

Thanks for this guide.
I disabled the right click with your script, now how do I enable it again?

Reply

There are separate downloads to disable and re-enable in the article.

Reply
Man5 years ago

Mouse Disabler worked for free at first, now it won't load without paying $5 for registration

Reply

thanks for that entry. always nice to be warned

Reply
saman5 years ago

thanks man

Reply

Very very nice website with important working tips. Ilike it, I Love it…….

Reply
Dragos12 years ago

Thank you for your lesson.

Reply

just make it, works for me.

Reply
Emman12 years ago

Nice Tutorial……^_^

Reply

This is useful.

Reply
Andrea13 years ago

Thanks! This was the only solution I found online that worked!
Andrea
*smiles

Reply

Keep the good tips coming…

Reply
kral oyun13 years ago

thanks

Reply

Thanks a lot for this great post. I work at a computer/tech store and we have a number of computers availble for customers to access our website to check for products. However, due to recent events I ended up having to set up the computers so that they were a bit more secure.

I managed to set it up rather well, but this rightclick context menu editor just might be helpful if they do get out of the kiosk setup.

Reply
ritunath13 years ago

this is really a valuable information for me. thanks for proving this valuable information. i was facing the problems caused by using the right click by any amateur user of computer.

Reply

thanks Raymond

Enable Mouse Right Click

We all know what the right click context menu is in Windows and how it works. At it's best, the menu can be a hugely valuable resource to get certain tasks accomplished more quickly than digging through programs and their settings to do the same thing. But what if this menu is getting in your way for some reason and you want to disable it?

There are various extensions for different browsers which help you get back the right click feature. One such browser extension for Google Chrome, that enables the right click feature is RightToCopy. So that's how simple you can hack into a website that has disabled the right click feature and copy its contents. To Enable Mouse ClickLock in Windows 10, Open the Settings app. Navigate to Devices Mouse. On the right, click on the Advanced Mouse Settings link. In the Mouse Properties dialog, switch to the Buttons tab. It should open by default. Turn on (check) the option Turn on ClickLock under the. .Note: In order to enable this extension for InPrivate mode, you need to give it permission via the Extensions - Right Click Enhancer - Allow for InPrivate Browsing. This extension doesn't have any tracking at all, but you should always be cautious with your private browsing. Show More. On the 'Right click' settings page, you can remap the right button click into: Right-click (default) – keep the default right-click action. Click – change it into a left-click action for those who are left-handed people. If you click on the +, it had it to your list for seiing it later, if you click on the 3 dots you can choose the quality outpu and many others thing. If you buy a mouse, you need the cable adaptor Micro-USB/USB if it is a USB mouse. Sorry for the picture this is a wireless mouse, the mouse is not attached to the cable.

Perhaps you or your children are playing games in a browser and keep accidentally right clicking when you don't want to, or you just don't want somebody inexperienced to have access to the quick options of renaming or deleting something on the desktop in case they delete something they shouldn't. Disabling the right click of the mouse might sound like a simple thing, but you can't just press a button in Windows to turn it off without a piece of 3rd party software or going deeper into the system settings.

Here's a selection of 5 solutions to enable you to turn off the right click of the mouse so the context menu isn't called and can't be triggered by accident.

1. Via the Registry

There's a registry entry you can add to disable the mouse right click. This only works on the desktop and Explorer though and doesn't affect any programs, you can also still right click on the task bar and control the tray programs via right click. This obviously isn't the best solution around but it does provide a small level of desktop protection over accidentally doing something via the Explorer context menu.

1. Go to Start -> Run or press Win key+R and type Regedit, then hit Enter. Navigate to the following key in the registry:

  • HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

2. Right click on the Explorer key and select New -> DWORD Value.

3. Give it the name NoViewContextMenu and click OK. Then double click the name and set the value data as 1. Press OK. To set it back again simply set this value back to 0 or right click on the NoViewContextMenu entry and delete it. You will need to log off or reboot for any of these changes to take effect.

Adding the registry tweak above will disable the mouse right click for all users on the computer. If you only want to disable for the currently logged in user, you should navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE:

  • HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

For ease of use and to save you going into the registry we have created these keys in easy to run .reg files which simply need to be double clicked on.

Disable Right Click for All Users

Re-enable Right Click for All Users

Disable Right Click for Current User

Re-enable Right Click for Current User

2. Kid Key Lock

Kid Key Lock has been mentioned before in our article about Restricting or Disabling Keyboard and Mouse Buttons, but can be setup to only disable the right click function in Windows. Of course if you want, other mouse buttons such as left click, middle click, double click and the scroll wheel can be disabled also. Simply open the program and tick the mouse button boxes you wish to disable and press OK. The program's little padlock tray icon will flash whenever a locked button is pressed and you can quickly change the locks by left clicking on the tray icon and going to the Locks sub menu.

It would have been more useful if the password option could be used to lock the setup options screen in case you want to stop the user enabling the mouse buttons again, but that option is only of benefit when completely locking the keyboard. If you don't want any keyboard restrictions make sure to turn the keyboard locks slider in options all the way to the left. There is a portable version and also an ad supported installer version available.

Download Kid Key Lock

3. Using an AutoHotKey script

AutoHotKey is used for creating scripts and macros and can automate a large number of tasks in Windows if you take a bit of time and patience to learn how it works. In its most basic form, AutoHotKey can disable the mouse right click functionality with just 1 line of code, which is:

RButton:: return

That just tells the script to intercept the right mouse button and then do nothing with it. Although the right click is disabled, you can still Shift right click in Windows or to exit the script. With a bit more creativity and know-how you can obviously add other things to the script such as disabling the tray icon, adding a password to turn it on and off etc.

If you want to try it out, here's a compiled script with just that 1 line.

Download DisableRightMouseClick

4. Mouse Disabler

Mouse Disabler is like a slightly simpler version of Kid Key Lock and just shows the tick box options to disable the left, right and double clicks with a few others you might find useful such as mouse movements and the scroll wheel. The Disable Keyboard Keys option will turn off the most basic keyboard input. Actions are applied as soon as you tick the box and the program doesn't close to the tray or disappear into the background, but instead simply minimizes to a task bar icon. Even though Mouse Disabler needs installing you can copy its executable and Helper.dll from program files to make it portable. The odd thing is the uninstaller application is 10 times bigger than the utility itself!

Download Mouse Disabler

5. BasicMouse

This is a shareware utility called BasicMouse and BasicBoard, which used to be called BabyMouse, that allows you to easily restrict several functions of the computer mouse and keyboard. The right mouse button can be disabled, all buttons can be set to send left-clicks, mouse clicks can be restricted to a particular area of the screen etc. Recent versions restrict the program to a 30 day trial which costs $7.95 to activate, but older versions only limit some of the features to 5 minutes use and disabling the right click is free to use. Simply run this older program and it will sit in the system tray for as long as you like disabling the mouse right click without needing to touch any of the time limited functions. The downside is it also disables the scroll wheel as well which you might not want.

Download BasicMouse Free Disable Right Click version

You might also like:

8 Ways To Disable or Lock the Keyboard and Mouse Buttons6 Ways To Disable or Remap the Caps Lock Key On Your KeyboardDisable Removable Storage Devices such as USB Drives5 Tools To Enable Mouse Gestures in your Favorite Programs10 Ways to Browse the Internet and Use your Computer Without a Mouse or TouchPad

Christine2 years ago

Nº 3. Using an AutoHotKey script. He gives a link to download the script and try it but then he puts a password in it and don't show it. Is this stupid???

Reply

P.S. I disabled the right-click button by jamming a paper clip into the small space between the button's up and down positions. That low-tech solution seems to be working well so far. It may work loose eventually, but it's pretty firmly in there at the moment, and it's jammed into the front of the mouse where my hand never is. Even if the paper clip does pop out occasionally, it will be easy to jam it back in, and that sure beats having to click on the screen to get rid of unwanted menus that keep popping up all the time, because I have to have my hand on the mouse and if I do that, it's very hard to completely avoid the right button continually. I've put up with the right click button for a very long time, and it was always a real pain. I wish I'd thought of this solution right away. Benjamin Franklin would probably have realized almost immediately what he should do to get rid of the annoyance, but he was always thinking and I'm not.

Reply
Geoff Arrowsmith3 years ago

Somebody less lazy and more entrepreneurial than myself should produce and sell a mouse with a little switch that can quickly be moved left or right, to enable or disable the right-click button. The switch should be in front of the mouse, out of the plane of where person puts his fingers naturally when using a mouse, or one would be flipping the switch back and forth accidentally which would be no help at all. Such a mouse might sell like hot cakes. I'd buy one if it wasn't exorbitantly priced. It would be easier than sticking a paper clip into the right=clip gap when I want to play '24.7 spades', or look through lists without unexpectedly highlighting everything and its brother, or try work with anything where the right click button triggers 'helpful' popup menus all the time as I move my mouse around.

Reply

Pure genius. Thank you, Geoff!
You got me thinking…I stuck the corner of a 3M poster mounting sticky square into the slot and since it's sticky, it won't slip out! :-)

Reply
Randy Knowles8 months ago

Beautiful and elegant! Change your name to Benjamin.

Reply

Mouse Disabler is a very dangerous program for amateurs. I installed it then, due to inattention, I checked 'disable left mouse' instead of 'disable right mouse'. After that, I couldn't do anything because the left mouse button is needed for almost everything. After playing around for half an hour, including rebooting in SAFE mode (which didn't help), I finally got to the program location and deleted the program. Now my computer works again. I'd like to tell you how I finally managed to delete the program from my computer, but I don't remember how I did it. There's no way I'm going near this program again with a ten-foot pole though. That mistake is too easy to make and too hard to rectify. I still want to disable my right mouse button, because it keeps popping up menus and highlighting stuff, which is a royal pain in the you-know what. It's very hard – impossible really – to avoid touching it all the time. I don't use the right mouse button for anything at all, so if I could just glue it in place that would almost be an acceptable solution for me. I'll look around some more for something not as dangerous, though.

Reply
ChingghisKhan4 years ago

Thanks for this guide.
I disabled the right click with your script, now how do I enable it again?

Reply

There are separate downloads to disable and re-enable in the article.

Reply
Man5 years ago

Mouse Disabler worked for free at first, now it won't load without paying $5 for registration

Reply

thanks for that entry. always nice to be warned

Reply
saman5 years ago

thanks man

Reply

Very very nice website with important working tips. Ilike it, I Love it…….

Reply
Dragos12 years ago

Thank you for your lesson.

Reply

just make it, works for me.

Reply
Emman12 years ago

Nice Tutorial……^_^

Reply

This is useful.

Reply
Andrea13 years ago

Thanks! This was the only solution I found online that worked!
Andrea
*smiles

Reply

Keep the good tips coming…

Reply
kral oyun13 years ago

thanks

Reply

Thanks a lot for this great post. I work at a computer/tech store and we have a number of computers availble for customers to access our website to check for products. However, due to recent events I ended up having to set up the computers so that they were a bit more secure.

I managed to set it up rather well, but this rightclick context menu editor just might be helpful if they do get out of the kiosk setup.

Reply
ritunath13 years ago

this is really a valuable information for me. thanks for proving this valuable information. i was facing the problems caused by using the right click by any amateur user of computer.

Reply

thanks Raymond

Reply

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Summary :

A mouse is a useful tool when using the computer. However, sometimes the mouse right click not working may fail to work, which brings some inconvenience. This post will show you how to solve the right click on mouse not working issue. In addition, you can also use the MiniTool software to create a system image after solving the problem.

The mouse is an important peripheral of the computer, and it brings great convenience for users to click on something. There are two buttons on the mouse including the left click and right click. Although the right click button is not commonly used, it also is important.

However, in some worse situations, the right click on mouse will fail to work. But don't worry. This post will show you how to fix the issue right click not working issue in the following section. If you have the same problem, try these solutions.

Solution 1. Check Hardware Issue

If you encounter the issue mouse right click not working, you can plug your mouse to different USB port firstly and check whether the issue right click not working is solved.

https://nationgoo456.weebly.com/ppt-to-pdf-converter-pro.html. Then if the above way does not work, you can also change another mouse and plug it to your computer. Then check whether the issue right click on mouse not working is solved.

Solution 2. Reinstall Mouse Driver

The second solution to the issue right click not working Windows 10 is to update your Mouse Driver.

Here is the tutorial.

Step 1: Type Device Manager in the search box of Windows and choose the best-matched one.

Step 2: In the Device Manager window, find out the Mice and other pointing device and expand it. Then select your mouse device and double-click it. Then choose Update Drivers to continue.

Step 3: Then choose Search automatically for updated driver software to continue.

Then Windows will start to update the driver. When the process is finished, you can reboot your computer and check whether the issue right click not working is solved.

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Solution 3. Change Power Management Settings for USB

In order to solve the issue right click not working, we will demonstrate the third solution. In this solution, you can change power management settings for USB.

Here is the tutorial.

Step 1: Press Windows key and R key together to open Run dialog. Then type devmgmt.msc in the box and click OK to continue.

Step 2: In the popup window, find out the Universal Serial Bus controllers and expand it.

Step 3: Double-click USB Root Hub and uncheck the option Allow the computers to turn off this device to save power. Then click OK to continue. Paperless 2 4 1 – digital documents manager description.

Step 4: Repeat the steps for all USB Root Hub.

After you have finished all steps, try to check whether the issue right click not working is solved.

Solution 4. Disable Tablet Mode

The fourth solution to fix the problem of mouse right click not working is to disable or turn off the Tablet mode.

Mouse Right Click Menu

Now, here is the tutorial.

Fix Right Click Disabled

Step 1: Press Windows key and I key together to open Settings.

Step 2: In the popup window, click System.

Step 3: Then choose Tablet mode from the left panel. Then choose Use desktop mode under Tablet mode on the right panel.

When you finish all steps, reboot your computer and check whether the issue right click not working Windows 10 is solved.

Solution 5. Run System File Checker

The fifth solution to the problem of right click not working is to run System File Checker. If there are corrupted system files, you may encounter the issue mouse right click not working. So, just try this approach.

Step 1: Open Command Prompt as administrator.

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Step 3: Please do not exit the command line window until you see the message Verification 100% completed.

Jw org bibel. When the process is finished, reboot your computer and check whether the issue right click on mouse not working is solved.

Solution 6. Run DISM Tool

Enable Mouse Right Click Function

If the above solution is not effective to fix the issue right click not working, you can run DISM tool to check and repair hard drive.

And now, we will show you the detailed tutorials.

Step 1: Open Command Prompt as administrator.

Step 2: In the popup window, type the following commands one by one and hit Enter after each command.

  • Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
  • Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
  • Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

When the process is finished, please reboot your computer and check whether the issue right click not working is solved.

Solution 7. Restart the File Explorer

Sometimes, the issue right click not working may happen in the File Explorer. Hence, in order to fix Windows 10 right click not working in File Explorer, you can try restarting the File Explorer.

Here is the tutorial.

Step 1: Press Ctrl, Shift and Esc keys together to open Task Manager.

Step 2: In the Task Manager window, go to the Processes tab and choose Windows Explorer. Then click Restart at the bottom of the window to continue.

When you have finished all steps, try to check whether the issue Windows 10 right click not working in File Explorer is solved.

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Solution 8. Check Group Policy Settings

If restart File Explorer cannot help you to fix the issue Windows 10 right click not working in File Explorer, you can try checking Group Policy Settings.

Now, here is the detailed tutorial.

Step 1: Press Windows key and R key together to open Run dialog. Then type gpedit.msc in the box and click OK to continue.

Step 2: Navigate to the File Explorer according to the following path.

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > File Explorer

Step 3: On the right panel, choose Remove File Explorer's default context menu and double-click it.

Step 4: In the popup window, check the option Disabled, then click Apply and OK to continue.

When all steps are finished, reboot your computer and check whether the issue Windows 10 right click not working in File Explorer is solved.

Solution 9. Remove Registry Items

And here, we will walk you through another way to solve the issue right click not working Windows 10. You can try removing the registry items. Before going ahead, please back up computer to avoid some accidents.

Step 1: Press Windows key and R key together to open Run dialog. Then type regedit in the box and click OK to continue.

Step 2: Then navigate to the following key.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellexContextMenuHandlersNvCplDesktopContext

Step 3: Delete all folders except the FileSyncEx, New, Sharing, and WorkFolders.

Warning: During the above steps, you may lose the desktop after disabling stuff and you will be left nothing to work on for the rest of the processes. Thus, to fix this problem, you can press Ctrl, Alt and Delete keys together. Then Choose Task Manager, select the file tab, run a new task and then key in explorer.exe. Then the desktop will appear again.

After you have finished all steps, reboot your computer and check whether the issue right click not working is solved.

Final Words

To sum up, this post has introduced 9 solutions to fix right click not working. If you have encountered the same problem right click not working on laptop, try these solutions.





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