(see screenshot below) If the Restore button is unavailable (grayed out), then it means that you can't restore a previous version of the file to its original location. If it doesn’t exist, you can create it by right-clicking on the “ Shell Extensions” key and selecting New -> Key. A) Select a previous version of the file if available, and select how you want to restore the previous version from the available options (ex: 'Restore' or 'Restore To'). In the Actions menu that appears, click Previous versions. Once located, hold the mouse over the entry in the search results and click Actions. How to Remove “Restore previous versions” Context Menu in Windows 10 In this tutorial we’ll show you a simple way to remove the “Restore previous versions” option from File Explorer’s context menu in Windows 10. If neither File History nor system restore is enabled, then there will be no old versions available for your folders and files and the “Restore previous versions” option is useless. It lets you recover old versions of your files and folders that were backed up by File History or system restore points.

When you right-click a folder or a file in File Explorer, the “ Restore previous versions” option will always appear as an option in the context menu.