Make menus open on the left side in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7

Make menus open on the left side in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7 -

In modern versions of Windows, including Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7, it is possible to all menus such as context menus and application menus to open on the left side of the mouse pointer. By default in Windows, they open to the right, unless you can a Tablet PC in this case, the default is left open menus. Here is how the adjustment can be controlled.
Before continuing, you should know the following fact. If the menu does not have enough space to fully open the border of the screen, it will open in the opposite direction of the border instead. This can be confusing because it replaces the behavior we're going to change in this article.

To do menus open on the left side in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7 , you need to do the following

1. Registry Editor open
2. Navigate to the following key: ..

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER  Software  Microsoft  Windows NT  CurrentVersion  Windows 

   See how to jump to the desired key to register with one click.

3. Here, create a new string value named MenuDropAlignment . If you already have this value in your registry, you must change it as described below.
4. To to open the menu on the left side , set the MenuDropAlignment to 1. See the following screenshot:
5. to restore the default appearance of menus, delete MenuDropAlignment parameter or set it to 0.
6. After changing the value, you must log out and log in to your Windows or restart Explorer session.

Now, open a menu such as the menu in Notepad or context menu desktop background. Notice how it opens to the left. This is how it looks:
before:
After :.
This is

If you have a Windows tablet, after installing some updates, the setting gets back the default, which is on the shelves to open the menus to the left . So now you know how to fix it.

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