# How do I get right click menu link back?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-right-click-menu-link-back/15478
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 5, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-right-click-menu-link-back/15478 "2014-02-05T22:46:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@mingusal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mingusal)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-right-click-menu-link-back/15478/1 "2014-02-05T22:46:33Z")
I run Windows 8 64-bit. I used to have mp3tag as a choice in my Windows Explorer right-click context menus. This was very convenient when editing tag information for a song or an album. However, after a Windows update, mp3tag disappeared from the menu options.
As I saw recommended elsewhere, I re-downloaded mp3tag and checked the option to have it show up in the right-click menus. In fact, I did it twice. But I still can't seem to get the option back. Anyone have any suggestions has to how I can restore an mp3tag option to these menus?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-right-click-menu-link-back/15478/2 "2014-02-06T05:16:44Z")
did you execute the setup as administrator?
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### Author:  [@mingusal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mingusal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-right-click-menu-link-back/15478/3 "2014-02-06T18:18:48Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> did you execute the setup as administrator?
Yes. It seems that Windows 8 won't let you do it any other way.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-right-click-menu-link-back/15478/4 "2014-02-06T18:25:15Z")
> [@mingusal](#):
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> Yes. It seems that Windows 8 won't let you do it any other way.
You could have a look at this thread
[Re-Adding Mp3tag To Context Menu](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4669/13)
as there is a registry key - which you might check if it works
In general, there is no intention that the context menu does not work. It works in my W8 ...
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### Author:  [@mingusal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mingusal)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-right-click-menu-link-back/15478/5 "2014-02-07T01:25:55Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> You could have a look at this thread
> [Re-Adding Mp3tag To Context Menu](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4669/13)
> as there is a registry key - which you might check if it works
>
> In general, there is no intention that the context menu does not work. It works in my W8 ...
OK, so the registry key and batch file didn't fix it.
What did work was downloading ShellExView and disabling then un-disabling mp3tag. But then I had to completely delete and reload mp3tag. Then mp3tag finally showed back up in the Explorer right-click context menu.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-right-click-menu-link-back/15478/6 "2026-02-09T12:24:54Z")