Re-enable Shift F10 and Shift F9 shortcuts in Windows 11

[bonest]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Back in Windows 10, I could press Shift + F10 to open the content menu (right click) in what ever program I used. In windows 11 this feature has been removed because of the new context menu.

As a microsoft dynamics Ax software developer this is SO annoying because we use the content menu all the time to get to the property sheet of the code and development tools etc.

Even worse, the Shift F9 shortcut is a feature that shows the breakpoint screen in Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2012, and since windows 11 this shortcut has been disabled to. Nothing happens if I press Shift + F9 to show my breakpoints in the debugger, and I am unable to redefine these settings.

It is even disabled for RDP connections, so working on a server via a Remote Desktop connection makes it hard to do your job when these shortcuts have been removed in Windows 11.

So please bring back the context menu shortcut Shift F10 and the Shift F9 in power tools.

Scenario when this would be used?

These shortcuts are used all the time as a software developer on older Microsoft products. So its a pain that Shift F9 + Shift F10 has been completely removed on windows 11.

Supporting information

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[crutkas]

Not totally sure what Shift-F9 but Shift-F10 does work for me. Tried VS Code and Outlook. I am using the current Insider build however.

RDP'ed into a RTM Win11 box and they worked too

Quick Q: does your keyboard maybe have a Fn key? Mine does and i did need to toggle it to test.

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[bonest]

Hi.

I did some more investigation in Windows 11, and noticed that Shift F10 indeed works in visual studio code, and it works in visual studio.

It does not work in Explorer, on windows 11.

When you have a remote desktop it complicates it a bit.

It works fine as long as you are full screen, if you resize the RDP connection into a window, then Shift + F10 (context menu) stops working in that RDP Session.

If you go back to full screen it starts working again and shows you the content menu (right click)

So on windows 11, Shift + F10 (and Shift + F9) behaves differently depending upon the program in use, and when it comes to RDP if its in full screen, or windowed mode.

And that is really annoying. Since the content menu shortcut Shift + F10 have behaved systemwide like for decades, but has changed after windows 11.

So I thought that the PowerToys may be the right place to bring that back.

I can tell you that I use Shift F10 on pure muscle memory, so it is SO annoying that it behaves differently depending upon the application, and if I am full screen or windowed. :-) I mean I have used this shortcut everyday for 20 years or so, its second to breathing :-)

[bhughes339]

Hi @bonest ,

Just FYI you can achieve this in PowerToys currently by using the Keyboard Manager and remapping the shortcut Shift+F10 to Apps/Menu.

[crutkas]

Hi @bonest, i just tried this via explorer and it does work. I RDP'ed in a Win11 box via my Win Insider box. It was a windowed instance of the classic RDP app, not full screen. In the RDP'ed instance of Windows, i opened up explorer, and shift-F10 on a file and the context menu popped up.

I'm on 25145.1011 locally, 22000 remoted into

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