{"id":5542,"date":"2026-02-15T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2026-02-15T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:07:43","slug":"how-to-eliminate-ai-actions-from-the-windows-11-context-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/how-to-eliminate-ai-actions-from-the-windows-11-context-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Eliminate AI Actions From the Windows 11 Context Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been sprucing up Windows 11 with some pretty slick AI features in all sorts of inbox apps over the past couple of years. Stuff like the Paint app now can remove backgrounds from images, the Photos app lets you erase backgrounds or blur them instantly. It\u2019s kinda neat if you&#8217;re into quick edits, but if you don\u2019t use these AI goodies, they can clutter up your right-click menu in File Explorer. Instead of having options that never get touched, it\u2019s nice to clean up and keep things streamlined. The good news? Windows 11 actually makes it pretty straightforward to hide or remove these AI actions\u2014no registry hacks or command line voodoo needed. So, if you\u2019re tired of seeing \u201cErase objects\u201d or \u201cRemove background\u201d popping up for every single image, here\u2019s how to cut them out.<\/p>\n<h2>Remove an AI action from the File Explorer context menu in Windows 11<\/h2>\n<h3>Open Settings and find your way to Actions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Hit the <kbd>Windows + I<\/kbd> keys or search for \u201cSettings\u201d in the Start menu. That\u2019ll bring up the Settings app.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> On the left sidebar, click <strong>Apps<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Now, on the right, you&#8217;ll see a new-ish section called <strong>Actions<\/strong>. If you don\u2019t see it or can\u2019t find it, make sure your Windows is up to date because this feature isn\u2019t super old but still might be missing in very outdated builds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Toggle off unwanted AI actions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Inside <strong>Actions<\/strong>, you\u2019ll see a list of apps\u2014Photos, Paint, etc.\u2014with toggle switches next to each. Find the AI features you never touch, like \u201cBlur background\u201d or \u201cErase objects, \u201d and turn those toggles off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Turning off the toggle completely disables all AI actions for that app in the right-click menu. There&#8217;s no way to pick and choose just one AI action; it\u2019s all or nothing. So, if you turn off the AI actions for Photos, the options to blur or erase in that context menu disappear entirely. Kind of inconvenient, but it keeps things clean if you\u2019re not into AI editing.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Sometimes, after turning off these options, the menu doesn\u2019t update immediately. If that happens, try restarting File Explorer or Windows itself. Not sure why it works, but in some setups, a restart clears the menu cache.<\/p>\n<p>On some machines, this tweak might not hide everything right away\u2014you might have to log out and back in or reboot. Windows doesn\u2019t offer an easy way to disable individual AI actions like \u201cRemove background\u201d versus \u201cBlur background, \u201d so this method is a bit blunt but effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been sprucing up Windows 11 with some pretty slick AI features in all sorts of inbox apps over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hulp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.peacedoorball.blog\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}