In this guide, we will show you the steps to add the website shortcut of your choice to the Windows 11 right-click menu. It is an old as well as a tried-and-tested method of adding the preferred website to the bookmark so that you could access it in just a few clicks. However, you would still have to manually open the browser in the first place. While this sounds like an obvious step, what if we told you that you have an option to remove this step altogether.
Yes, that is indeed a possibility. You could add your preferred websites to your PC context menu. as a result of which, you could easily access them as and when needed in just a single click, without the need to manually launch the browser. Moreover, this tweak is valid across all sites and for all web browsers. So without any further ado, show you the detailed instructions to add the website shortcut of your choice to the Windows 11 right-click menu. Follow along.
How to Add Website Shortcut in Windows 11 Right-Click Menu
We will be carrying out the said task by tweaking the Registry Editor. So before starting, it is recommended to take a backup of your registry. Along the same lines, you should also copy the location of your browser’s EXE file path.
To do so, right-click on the browser’s shortcut icon and select Show More Options > Properties. Then copy the Target path (without quotes). In this regard, here is the default installation location of some popular web browsers:
Chrome- C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe Edge- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe Firefox- C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
- Head over to the Start menu, search Registry Editor, and open it.
- Then copy-paste the below location in its address bar and hit Enter:
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell
- Now right-click on the shell folder and select New > Key.
- Give it the name of the website shortcut (say Droidwin).
- Now right-click on it (Droidwin) and select New > Key.
- Name it command. Then open its Default file from the right-hand side.
- Assign it the following value (make sure to replace both the values accordingly):
browser-exe-file-path website-url
- For example, let’s assign the Droidwin website to the Edge browser. So the above command will transform to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe droidwin.com
- Finally, click OK to save it. Let’s now test it out. So right-click on your desktop and select Show More Options.
- You should see the website shortcut. Click on it and it will be opened in the assigned browser.
How to Remove Website Shortcut in Windows 11 Right-Click Menu
If you wish to revert the changes, i.e. remove the website shortcut from the Windows 11 right-click menu, then just delete the website key that you had created (Droidwin in our case). That’s it.
These were the steps to add the website shortcut of your choice to the Windows 11 right-click menu. You may add as many websites to the context menu as you wish and could assign each of them to different browsers as well.
All that you need to do is just change the value of the command given in STEP 7. On that note, we round off this guide. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
