How To Disable Right Click On The Taskbar

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However, on many occasions you may want to disable right click even on the Windows Taskbar. This is where a very useful registry tweak comes into he picture.

Step-1 Open the regedit.exe file.

Step-2 Scroll down to or create the following registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

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Step-3 In the right panel, create a new DWORD value named NoTrayContextMenu within the above registry key and set its data value to 1 to disable the right click context menu on the taskbar, and to 0 to enable it. (Note: you may want to completely delete the DWORD value NoTrayContextMenu when you want to enable right click.)

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