Microsoft’s relationship with the Windows 11 context menu has always been a little complicated. Every few months, the company adds something new, trims something old, or rearranges the whole structure in the name of clarity. And the latest Insider build, 26220.7344, has given users exactly what they have been asking for- the ability to make AI Actions disappear. The change was first spotted by a Reddit user digging through the release notes, where Microsoft confirms that the AI Actions block in the context menu will now vanish if none of the supported apps are enabled.
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How to remove AI actions
If you don’t want to toggle each app individually, you can jump straight into Settings > Apps > Actions and simply untick everything in one go. Paint, Photos, Teams, and any other app tied to AI Actions will immediately stop occupying space in your right-click menu.
Until now, even disabling these apps didn’t remove the feature. Windows 11 would still show the AI Actions header, only without any actions listed under it. It resulted in an odd empty gap that served no real purpose and added to the clutter of an already crowded menu. For some people, quick shortcuts like Visual Search through Bing or background blur in Photos were genuinely useful. But for many others, the AI Actions panel did little more than add visual noise, padding out a menu that was already struggling with its own weight.
Further, AI Actions never unlocked anything you couldn’t already access through Open With. Microsoft pitched it as a convenient shortcut, but most of the time it led you to the exact apps you’d use anyway. Neowin’s early screenshot from May highlighted this duplication clearly, showing Edit with Paint and Edit with Photos sitting right beside their AI-branded equivalents. In one example, the menu stretched to a staggering 18 items, and that didn’t include the top strip of quick actions or the show more options overflow.
What else has changed?
Along with hiding AI Actions, the latest build introduces other small but meaningful cleanups. For instance, there is a new manage file sub-menu that gathers options like Compress to and Copy as path into a single home, reducing scattered entries. OneDrive’s menu items are also being tucked into a single consolidated section. Even though none of these changes are dramatic on their own, together they point toward a Windows 11 experience that finally feels like it’s learning to quiet the clutter.
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