{"id":3947,"date":"2016-08-31T19:17:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:53:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:53:52","slug":"context-menu-missing-15-files-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/context-menu-missing-15-files-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"Context Menu Items Missing When More than 15 files Are Selected"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you select more than 15 files and right-click on them, most of the context menu items will be missing.<\/p>\n

\"context
15+ files selected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"context
15 files selected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To display the context menu items when more than 15 files are selected, here is a quick registry edit.<\/p>\n

Start Regedit.exe and go to:<\/p>\n

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer<\/pre>\n
Create a new DWORD named “MultipleInvokePromptMinimum”. To extend the limit to 20, set the value data for MultipleInvokePromptMinimum to 20 (decimal)<\/p>\n
Exit the Registry Editor.<\/p>\n
That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you select more than 15 files and right-click on them, most of the context menu items will be missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5044,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/hide-selected-files-hidden-attribute-right-click-menu\/","url_meta":{"origin":3947,"position":0},"title":"Show or Hide Selected Files from the Right-click menu","author":"Ramesh","date":"December 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In File Explorer, you can hide or show selected files using the \"Hide selected files\" toggle button in the Ribbon interface. 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