How to Remove Open in Windows Terminal Right click Menu in Windows 11 or 10

Windows Terminal is an advanced inbox application that lets you use a shell on your computer. This app is available on Microsoft store and when you install the utility, an option named Open in Windows Terminal is added to the context menu of folders in File Explorer. On this modern application, you are able to open multiple tabs at a time, moreover, use each of them with Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell.

Besides the facility of multiple tabs, this Windows Terminal comes with plenty of other features including rich text, theming & styling globalization, configurability, and more. However, several Windows 10 users don’t use this context menu option, feel it unnecessary, and want to remove the same. Let’s check out the method for how to remove open in Windows Terminal right click menu in Windows 10. Doing so is super easy if you tweak the registry correctly.

Remove Open in Windows Terminal

Here is how to remove open in Windows Terminal right click Menu in Windows 11/10 –

1. Press – Windows + S.
2. Type in – regedit.
3. Hit – Enter.
4. To allow User Account Control, click – Yes.
5. When Registry Editor appears, navigate to –

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\

6. Right-click on any empty space and select – New => Key.

7. Name it Blocked.
8. From the left sidebar, right-click on Blocked key you just created and choose New => String Value.

9. Name the string value {9F156763-7844-4DC4-B2B1-901F640F5155}.
10. Double-click the same and put WindowsTerminal in Value data box. You can keep the value blank too.

11. Click – OK.
12. Restart the Windows 10/11 to Remove Open in Windows Terminal option.

That’s all!!!