### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/1 "2026-05-06T18:27:42Z")
It happened again.
Right-clicking on an audio track used to gibe me the MP3Tag option....even yesterday.
Today, it is gone...again.
When I go to enter: cd regsvr32Mp3tagShell.dll
at the command prompt, I am cautioned that I an about to enter a multi line command that could have unintended consequences. Is it same to enter as is, or should I move the second line up?
Actually, the cmd line on the help link is longer....so confusing...
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/2 "2026-05-06T18:36:45Z")
It is 2 seperate lines, each one to be executed individually but in the displayed order
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/3 "2026-05-06T19:01:23Z")
Do I need to restart after entering that command?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/4 "2026-05-06T19:15:05Z")
isn't it much easier to directly try it than to ask?
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/5 "2026-05-06T19:28:55Z")
It is my experience that it would not..
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/6 "2026-05-06T19:30:25Z")
Just try it exactly like this:
> [@Installation & Backup](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/installation-backup/964/5):
>
> 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:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/7 "2026-05-06T19:37:30Z")
... @LyricsLover links to the same topic that you already know from this thread:
> [@Where did MP3Tag explorer context menu go?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-did-mp3tag-explorer-context-menu-go/71027):
>
> When viewing MP3 audio book discs and tracks in Windows 11 File Explorer, I used to right-click a disc or tracks in the disc and MP2 Tag would come up in the “Open” drop down box. Not any more…….. Where di d it go? What Am I doing wrong?
So: nothing has changed in the meantime. You still would have to execute everything locally.
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/8 "2026-05-06T20:43:34Z")
When I copy and paste that line in a cmd. prompt, I am informed that "System cannot find the file specified."
In the above referenced thread, I stated that it HAD RETURNED. But.................Now it is GONE.
I just do not understand why Mp3tag WAS present, then NOT present, then preset again, now NOT present...
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/9 "2026-05-06T20:48:17Z")
As you do not supply any detailed information, it is not really possible to give you other suggestions.
I miss hints how to reproduce the problem.
A screenshot of the command(s) that you enter would be a start.
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/10 "2026-05-06T20:53:04Z")
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/11 "2026-05-06T21:04:21Z")
You would have to replace the text `` with the real path.
So find out in which location you installed MP3tag, then use that information to fill in the path.
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/12 "2026-05-06T21:07:10Z")
It is installed to: "C:\Program Files\Mp3tag\Mp3tag.exe"
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/13 "2026-05-06T21:11:36Z")
So the command would be:
`cd C:\Program Files\Mp3tag`
press Enter
end then enter
`regsvr32 mp3tagshell.dll`
press Enter again.
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/14 "2026-05-06T21:14:31Z")
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/15 "2026-05-06T21:16:58Z")
I think it should be
`regsvr32`
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/16 "2026-05-06T21:20:22Z")
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/17 "2026-05-06T21:23:18Z")
The error indicates insufficient access rights.
You would have to run the command prompt explicitly with administrator rights.
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/18 "2026-05-06T21:24:43Z")
According to my account, I AM the administrator.....
this has been a couple days of silly failures.. I am not accustomed to that...
As my right click drop down had a program "Edit ID Tags" provided by my CD ripping program, I guess I will just use that.
Still don't know why Mp3tag is playing peek-a-boo with that drop down menu.....
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/19 "2026-05-06T21:28:58Z")
> [@Ronno6](#):
>
> According to my account, I AM the administrator.....
You would still have to execute the command prompt as administrator - which is an extra option to open that program.
> [@Ronno6](#):
>
> Still don't know why Mp3tag is playing peek-a-boo with that drop down menu.....
This is something that only you can find out locally with a thorough investigation what happened before and what has changed.
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### Author:  [@Ronno6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ronno6)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-missing-from-windows-right-click-drop-down-box-again/71184/20 "2026-05-06T21:38:15Z")
I ran as administrator. Entered the 2 command lines.
It said that it had been executed successfully.
I restarted the PC and...................it Is there, just in a lower position than before!
Thank you!
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