Creating a Registry backup is advised before making any changes to Windows Registry. The steps to add the Task Manager option to the taskbar right-click menu using Registry Editor in Windows 11 are mentioned below. To enable the Task Manager option in the taskbar context menu of Windows 11, you can use the following options:

Add Task Manager option in the Taskbar context menu in Windows 11 If you want to add this option now in the stable version, then you can force enable it. This option is already available in Beta and Dev builds of Windows 11 and Microsoft will also start rolling out this option to the Release Preview build of Windows 11. Finally, we can enable it with two easy options covered in this post below.īefore you proceed further, note that to enable this feature, you must install the KB5019509 update (OS Build 22621.675 or later) if you haven’t already. Earlier, users were expected to get this feature with the first feature drop of Windows 11 that brings the Taskbar Overflow menu, Tabbed File Explorer, etc., but users didn’t get it. Now, this long-awaited feature can be enabled and used.

One of the convenient ways to open Task Manager in Windows OS is using the taskbar context menu but Microsoft removed this option in Windows 11. In this tutorial, we will show you how to add the Task Manager option in the taskbar context menu in Windows 11.

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