I don’t want to go into Show more, and the Avast context menu is there aka old style, I want it to appear on the new W11 right click context menu, anyone can help please? I did the clear avast exe and reinstalled it, but it’s the same.
First, I’m an Avast user and not an Avast Team member.
It is still there in my Avast Free installation (though still on Avast 25.5.xxxx) on a Windows 10 OS. Have you made any changes to your UI settings ?
No, I haven’t. It’s still there in the older looking right click context menu, which comes up after you click Show more options in the new GUI in Windows 11. I want to see the “Scan selected items for viruses” in the new W11 right click context menu, is this possible? Malwarebytes shows up in the new context menu when I right click though.
and thank you for reaching out, I hope we will be able to hear from the support team about this soon.
I would like to hope so, but direct input by Avast Team members isn’t anywhere close to what I would wish for.
Not using Windows 11 I’m not familiar with any differences in the Avast UI for it. My screenshot is taken directly from Win10, Windows Explorer, right click menu to elect to scan a file or folder.
A screenshot of what you are seeing might help others see what you see
You can use windows explorer or other file management program to drag and drop your image into a post.
You can disable the ‘Show More Options’ menu and have Windows 11 return to the old style context menu:
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/disable-show-more-options-context-menu-in-windows-11.1589/
It’s one of the first things I changed when I started using Windows 11.
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Thank you R, I want to do that too, but how will I select Scan with avast with the right click then?
My assumption (dangerous I know), is that it reverts to the old style context menu as Rundvleeskroket suggested. Did you try that ?
EDIT:
As shown in the Eleven Forum article and this image.
I really don’t want to revert to old style, what’s point in upgrading to w11 then? maybe Avast support team should add a code to show up the option to Scan with Avast to the new w11 GUI context menu. Thank you.
Personally I don’t see the use of hiding options behind another click in the first place. It makes the UI less functional for the sake of appearing slicker. Not all changes are good imo. You can have the general benefit of the upgrades Win11 brings, without having to be stuck with all of the changes. This is one you can revert if you like.
It probably is possible to move where the Avast entry appears, but that would require more knowledge of registry-hacking than I’m willing to research. And it will likely get undone with the next Windows update or even Avast update.
I’ve tried 5 times today with the reg hacks via chatgpt, added a menu to the new modern context menu, but couldn’t get the program to start scanning, so gpt decided the avast team should update the gui for win11. so i had to remove what I ve added, at least I tried many times to get somewhere. Hope the support team at Avast reads this.
I got the impression from the Image above and the Eleven Forum you could flip between the two options.
The Restore previous version, was what I was thinking. Though they don’t give much information on what that function actually does.
The enabling REG-file adds a registry key. That key makes it so that Windows 11 will show the full context menu normally hidden behind ‘show more options’ by default. It enables you to skip that step and just get the expanded menu with all the options instead of just a few basic ones. That’s all it does. In essence it reverts the context menu to the default behavior of the Windows 10 context menu.
Clicking on the REG-file that disables it removes the registry key, thus restoring Windows 11 to its default behavior with the limited context menu and ‘show more options’.
What OP seems to be doing is asking AI to tell him how to manipulate the registry so that the Avast entry appears on the default Windows 11 context menu, so the one with the limited options. That might work, but as I’ve said before it will probably be very temporary. Any update of Windows or Avast is likely to reset the location of the Avast entry. In that case indeed only Avast can change the default behavior. But then again: that defeats the purpose of a limited menu with only the very basics. So imo you really are better off just adding the key and using the full context menu all the time. Including the working Avast entry.
With the REG-files you can flip between behaviors, but you might have to reboot to have the changes take effect.
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I will try the reg from gpt today again, unless the avast support team updates their software to match the w11 new context menu. as they should. its been freaking years man.
I’d be very careful when having AI make changes to your registry. You really should fully understand what the changes entail before adding them. At least make sure you have a full system backup. Just in case.
exactly, that’s why I stopped messing with it, not worth it. I’ve tried 5 times already, rest is up to the avast team to update. thank you!
There’s a feedback button in the About section of Avast. You can make your suggestion there.
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Thank you, will do.