Why does "Take Ownership" (and other) context menu (items) have selection limit?

If you have selected more than 15 files in File Explorer of Windows, options like Open, Print, and Edit disappear from the context menu. Here you can see the context menu has no options like those.

❇️ This issue is not new to Windows 10. It also affects Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows Vista. This is to avoid accidentally performing these actions on a large number of files at once, which can cause the computer to stop responding. To resolve this problem, there is registry tweak given by Microsoft.

• Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe). Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer registry key. Create a 32-bit DWORD value named MultipleInvokePromptMinimum by right clicking the right pane in registry editor. Even if you are running 64-bit Windows, you still need to create a 32-bit DWORD value.

  

• Set its value data in decimal to the number of items in Explorer for which you wish to have Take Ownership context option visible. In the example below, I set the DWORD value data to 20 in decimal, so context menu commands will remain accessible for up to 20 selected files.

  

• Then restart Explorer or sign out and sign in back to your PC. Now, you can select more than 15 files again and see that the missing Take Ownership context menu items are visible now.

  

• N.B. If you set up User Access Control (UAC) Prompt to full secure mode, then you see many UAC prompts pop up during take ownership. So take ownership some few files at once. Microsoft recommends "only increasing this value to a reasonable number in a controlled environment and only where users really need this value increased".

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