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Hi!
I'm having this weird issue. I searched this forum and found a similar case but with no solution given, so I'll try my luck here.
Issue:
I am unsure when this started.
As for Third-Party apps which directly affect File Explorer I can only think of ExplorerPatcher and WinSetView.
I have uninstalled EP, at first from its own uninstall option in its settings. Nothing changed so I reinstalled it and noticed that it remembered all settings, so I supposed that the uninstallation didn't revert something which maybe is the cause of this issue, and I tried uninstalling with Revo and deleting all the leftovers, but to no avail. It either is not the cause of the issue or it permanently changed something and neither its own uninstaller nor Revo are able to revert it.
As for WinSetView, @LesFerch might have something to say if he's aware of his utility being related to such an issue. I can only say that I've tried submitting "revert views to windows defaults" and selecting "reset Explorer options" but besides loosing the customization and having again the annoying grouping etc, the issue with the right click persists.
I can't think of anything that might be the cause.
Can you?
I also tried this:
- I started in Safe Mode (minimal) and the issue was still there.
- SFC run via PS didn't find any violation. Run via the System File Checker in Revo it did find issues and corrected them but the right click thing persists.
- DISM RestoreHealth didn't solve anything.
- deleting the thumbnails cache and temp files with Disk Cleaner AND with Revo didn't solve anything.
- changed a special character in my username: from xyz³ to xyz3 in user accounts in control panel. Now in the Start I can see xyz3 but the folder in C Users is still called xyz³ and when I open PS it says PS C:\Users\xyz³>.
If you think that this ³ might be the issue, can you tell me how to change all what remains of xyz³ into xyz3?
- I downloaded ShellExView and saw that the only stuff not from Microsoft was 7z and LibreOffice. I still tried disabling those but nothing changed.
- I downloaded and installed the latest Administrative Templates for Win 11 24H2 (they install in a different folder so I copied them to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\. I had to take ownership of this folder first, and then I reverted the ownership to Trustedinstaller with a command line in PS)
The only thing that works: creating another account. I did that and the right click works perfectly there.
So I suspect corrupt user files and I've no idea how to fix it.
I'd prefer to fix than to move all to the new account and delete this one, because some things aren't installed for all users and I never did this and feel unsure about it.
Do you have a fix for this?
System Restore is not an option, I forgot it disabled
Thnx
I'm having this weird issue. I searched this forum and found a similar case but with no solution given, so I'll try my luck here.
Issue:
- right clicking some items pinned in Start doesn't give any context menu. For instance File Explorer and Edge don't give a context menu, while Settings does.
- also in Start, if I click on "All" to see the list of installed apps, Store Apps give the context menu but "Pin to Start" doesn't work. While Desktop Apps give no context menu.
- Search remembers the apps I searched, like RegEdit, CMD, MSConfig, and I always had a context menu when right clicking them, and could start them as an admin, but now no more.
- right clicking on ANY item in "Windows Tools" (= Computer Management, Defragment and Optimize etc) I get a "loading" circle and the window freezes and it's not possible to close it from the X on the top right corner (it does close if I right click on Windows Tools on the taskbar and select "Close Window").
- Same thing with circle and freeze happens if I right click on some .exe in C (as far as I could observe it only happens with exe and only in C). It's selective though. For instance, if I go in Program Files and open the 7-Zip folder, a right click on 7z.exe or 7zG.exe gives the context menu, but right clicking on 7zFM.exe gives circle and freeze.
In the LibreOffice folder right clicking on any exe like Writer, Base, Math etc freezes the window, but things like python.exe correctly give the context menu.
Same thing happens for some exe in the Program Files (x86) and Windows folders. For instance in Windows folder the regedit exe freezes the window, whereas the explorer and notebook exe give the context menu.
I am unsure when this started.
As for Third-Party apps which directly affect File Explorer I can only think of ExplorerPatcher and WinSetView.
I have uninstalled EP, at first from its own uninstall option in its settings. Nothing changed so I reinstalled it and noticed that it remembered all settings, so I supposed that the uninstallation didn't revert something which maybe is the cause of this issue, and I tried uninstalling with Revo and deleting all the leftovers, but to no avail. It either is not the cause of the issue or it permanently changed something and neither its own uninstaller nor Revo are able to revert it.
As for WinSetView, @LesFerch might have something to say if he's aware of his utility being related to such an issue. I can only say that I've tried submitting "revert views to windows defaults" and selecting "reset Explorer options" but besides loosing the customization and having again the annoying grouping etc, the issue with the right click persists.
I can't think of anything that might be the cause.
Can you?
I also tried this:
- I started in Safe Mode (minimal) and the issue was still there.
- SFC run via PS didn't find any violation. Run via the System File Checker in Revo it did find issues and corrected them but the right click thing persists.
- DISM RestoreHealth didn't solve anything.
- deleting the thumbnails cache and temp files with Disk Cleaner AND with Revo didn't solve anything.
- changed a special character in my username: from xyz³ to xyz3 in user accounts in control panel. Now in the Start I can see xyz3 but the folder in C Users is still called xyz³ and when I open PS it says PS C:\Users\xyz³>.
If you think that this ³ might be the issue, can you tell me how to change all what remains of xyz³ into xyz3?
- I downloaded ShellExView and saw that the only stuff not from Microsoft was 7z and LibreOffice. I still tried disabling those but nothing changed.
- I downloaded and installed the latest Administrative Templates for Win 11 24H2 (they install in a different folder so I copied them to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\. I had to take ownership of this folder first, and then I reverted the ownership to Trustedinstaller with a command line in PS)
The only thing that works: creating another account. I did that and the right click works perfectly there.
So I suspect corrupt user files and I've no idea how to fix it.
I'd prefer to fix than to move all to the new account and delete this one, because some things aren't installed for all users and I never did this and feel unsure about it.
Do you have a fix for this?
System Restore is not an option, I forgot it disabled
Thnx
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