# Disappeared from Windows Explorer context menu
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/disappeared-from-windows-explorer-context-menu/71950
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 11, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/disappeared-from-windows-explorer-context-menu/71950 "2026-10-11T19:29:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mp3tag\_user](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mp3tag_user)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/disappeared-from-windows-explorer-context-menu/71950/1 "2026-10-11T19:29:24Z")
Been using MP3Tag forever on my Windows desktop PC (most recently Windows 11) - all of a sudden it's gone from my Windows Explorer context menu (I have the classic context menu enabled by default; I suspect a recent Windows update is to blame). I had a slightly older version of MP3Tag, which I thought was the culprit, so I uninstalled it and installed ver. 3.36.1, but still have the same problem (I have of course rebooted the PC). What's next to try?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2026, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/disappeared-from-windows-explorer-context-menu/71950/2 "2026-10-11T19:35:03Z")
You could start here:
> [@Installation & Backup](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/installation-backup/964/5):
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> Right-click context menu is missing on Windows 11 Assuming you've already restarted explorer.exe via the right-click context menu in Task Manager (or have rebooted Windows), this is happening sometimes on Windows 11 for reasons which I still trying to find out. What might help in those cases and when the classic context menu is preferred, is to manually register the shell extension from a command prompt with admin rights: cd \ regsvr32 Mp3tagShell.dll
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### Author:  [@mp3tag\_user](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mp3tag_user)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/disappeared-from-windows-explorer-context-menu/71950/3 "2026-10-11T20:12:24Z")
Thanks, and my apologies for missing an FAQ item. I did see this thread, and tried implementing it, but was struggling with permissions issues (even though I was running PowerShell as an admin). This time I used a regular Command Prompt (invoked as admin) instead, and it ran smoothly - and fixed the issue! Glad to have MP3Tag back on the context menu, and I just donated to the creator 🙂