How do I remove the "Undo" option from Windows' right-click context menu?

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I am looking to remove the Undo option from the menu.

I have looked at the similar questions on Super User, and I cannot find a method to remove this item. Please include more than just a link to some program in your answer.

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score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '12 at 18:04

Here is a hack which might do what you ask for, but is somewhat risky.
I have not tested it, for obvious reasons, but it might work.

Download and install Resource Hacker
Go to C:\Windows\en-US and take ownership of (if required) and then copy the explorer.exe.mui to somewhere safe. If you are running a 64-bit system you should also modify the explorer.exe.mui which is located in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\en-US. To find all the copies: Go to Start Menu and do an extended search for explorer.exe.mui. You will need to repeat the procedure for each of them. If you have no success with saving the files you will also need to take ownership of the containing folder.
Open your explorer.exe.mui(s) in Resource Hacker and navigate to Menu / 205 / 1033 :
Select and delete the Undo line
Press Compile Script and save
Go to your original folder(s) again and rename your original explorer.exe.mui file(s) (explorer0ld.exe.mui?) then copy and paste your modified explorer.exe.mui file(s) into place.
Go to Start Menu / Run and execute mcbuilder.
Once the window closes, restart your computer.

I take no responsibility for the result of the above or their effects. I suggest taking good backups first and creating a system restore point, just in case.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 04 '18 at 23:38

I don't know how to remove that previous actions like undo move/ undo delete/ paste etc. But I can tell you how to prevent it from adding it to the menu option.

Once you are done with moving/cutting/copying any file/folder and you paste it to another location, the action is recorded but to remove it, just move/cut/copy that file/folder in the current folder (where you just moved your file recently) again, and a dialogue box appears, just click skip and you will see, that annoying options are disappeared.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 06 '24 at 10:10

Here is the answer I found that removes "Undo Copy", "Undo Rename" & "Undo Move" from the Context Menu (src) -

remove_undo_items.reg:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"MaxUndoItems"=dword:00000000

Should work immediately as tested with Win11 v23H2

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 22 '12 at 16:37

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The best option is program called ShellToys. It's shareware (45 day free of try). With ShellToys you can (along with many other things) or hide remove many menu items. Note that this doesn't work with Windows 8 64-bit; it will work with other versions of Windows.

edited Sep 22 '12 at 16:37

bwDraco

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answered Sep 21 '12 at 17:07

Riza

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score -2 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 14 '18 at 08:08

a solution that I use: 1. right click and create a new folder 2. press ctrl+c and copy it 3. go inside the folder and press ctrl+v to paste 4. it pops an error, skip on that 5. go back and press F2 to rename the folder 6. press ctrl+c to copy the string 7. press esc and delete the folder now there is no undo copy and pate item is disabled ( which is annoying if you accidentally click it instead of refresh!!!)

How do I remove the "Undo" option from Windows' right-click context menu?

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