Solved Right click

Hary · Sep 9, 2024

LesFerch said:
What I'm saying is that you should create another account (just for testing purposes) and login with that account (again just for testing purposes) and see if the right-click on taskbar items works. If it does work, then we know the problem is specific to your user profile which will help narrow the scope of our troubleshooting. The test account can be deleted once this check is done, although I would recommend keeping it at least until the issue is resolved (and it's always a good idea to have a backup local admin account anyhow).

Hary said:
I'll do it when I get home (I'm at work right now), then I'll post it on the forum.

Here I am, I created a Local User Account and saw that everything works on it, so the problem exists only on my admin acc.

dacrone · Sep 9, 2024

Right-click on taskbar's icon and slabs in start will not open context menu on windows 10

I just upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and found out that when I right-click icons on taskbar for unpin them nothing happened after click. I though it was just delay so I waited few minutes...

superuser.com

Check last reply. Possibly a registry issue

LesFerch · Sep 9, 2024

Hary said:
Here I am, I created a Local User Account and saw that everything works on it, so the problem exists only on my admin acc.

Then it's almost certainly caused by some incorrect registry setting(s) in your user-profile.

There may be a clue in the article linked by @dacrone. Looking at the contextmenuhandler key in HKCU would seem like a good starting point, but that's not necessarily where the problem lies.

Sometimes running a repair install (which keeps your apps and data) will fix certain user profile problems and, if that works, will likely take less time overall.

However, this issue does sound like something we should be able to fix directly. It just may take some trial and error. The PowerShell script in that SuperUser article doesn't look right though (it generates errors for me). If you like, you could export your HKEY_CURRENT_USER key and send that to me via WormHole. You can message me for my email or find it in the WinSetView manual.

Hary · Sep 9, 2024

LesFerch said:
Then it's almost certainly caused by some incorrect registry setting(s) in your user-profile.

There may be a clue in the article linked by @dacrone. Looking at the contextmenuhandler key in HKCU would seem like a good starting point, but that's not necessarily where the problem lies.

Sometimes running a repair install (which keeps your apps and data) will fix certain user profile problems and, if that works, will likely take less time overall.

However, this issue does sound like something we should be able to fix directly. It just may take some trial and error. The PowerShell script in that SuperUser article doesn't look right though (it generates errors for me). If you like, you could export your HKEY_CURRENT_USER key and send that to me via WormHole. You can message me for my email or find it in the WinSetView manual.

I can't export HKEY_CURRENT_USER, I've tried several times but I can't, the place (I don't know the terminology) where it should be exported collapses.

LesFerch · Sep 9, 2024

Hary said:
I can't export HKEY_CURRENT_USER, I've tried several times but I can't, the place (I don't know the terminology) where it should be exported collapses.

The export steps are:

Open RegEdit
Select (click) HKEY_CURRENT_USER
File > Export
Navigate to where you want to save the reg file (e.g. Downloads)
Enter a name (e.g. hkcu) and click Save.

Hary · Sep 9, 2024

LesFerch said:
The export steps are:

Open RegEdit

Select (click) HKEY_CURRENT_USER

File > Export

Navigate to where you want to save the reg file (e.g. Downloads)

Enter a name (e.g. hkcu) and click Save.

At step 4 it crashes and I can't save the key in downloads, is there any alternative.

Hary · Sep 9, 2024

You can see it in the video

https://imgur.com/a/AD3dzzm

dacrone · Sep 9, 2024

you can try to reset your taskbar and see if that helps, since the reg is crashing...

How to Restart or Reset Taskbar in Windows 11/10

You can restart or reset the Taskbar on Windows 11/10. Do it using the Task Manager or this BAT file. Useful if your Taskbar is not working.

www.thewindowsclub.com

Hary · Sep 9, 2024

dacrone said:
you can try to reset your taskbar and see if that helps, since the reg is crashing...

How to Restart or Reset Taskbar in Windows 11/10

You can restart or reset the Taskbar on Windows 11/10. Do it using the Task Manager or this BAT file. Useful if your Taskbar is not working.

www.thewindowsclub.com

I will try.

LesFerch · Sep 9, 2024

I see. So the taskbar right-click is not the only thing that's broken. I think it's time to try a repair install.

Repair Install Windows 11 with an In-place Upgrade

This tutorial will show you how to do a repair install of Windows 11 by performing an in-place upgrade without losing anything. If you need to repair or create a new recovery partition or having problems with the Windows 11 operating system on your PC, and the usual solutions will not fix it...

www.elevenforum.com

Hary · Sep 9, 2024

BINGO!! Everything is fine now, the problem with right-clicking and crashing regedit was caused by Explorer Patcher. I uninstalled it and now everything works as it should. I thank everyone for their patience while trying to help me.
Stuff like this is one of the reasons I love the Windows 11 forum.

Thank you guys so much!

LesFerch · Sep 9, 2024

Hary said:
BINGO!! Everything is fine now, the problem with right-clicking and crashing regedit was caused by Explorer Patcher. I uninstalled it and now everything works as it should.

But I thought you tried that yesterday as mentioned here.

Hary · Sep 9, 2024

LesFerch said:
But I thought you tried that yesterday as mentioned here.

I know, I also uninstalled EP then, but nothing changed, I think that uninstalling and this in combination helped.

Winuser · Sep 9, 2024

LesFerch said:
Sometimes running a repair install (which keeps your apps and data) will fix certain user profile problems and, if that works, will likely take less time overall.

If it's a corrupt User Profile That won't help.

LesFerch · Sep 9, 2024

Winuser said:
If it's a corrupt User Profile That won't help.

IIRC, the repair resets some things in the user profile. For example, I'm pretty sure it deletes the FolderTypes key that WinSetView creates in HKCU. I assume it only does that "cleanup" for the user profile where the repair was initiated and not all user profiles. I'll run a test or two when I get a chance and report back...

Winuser · Sep 9, 2024

LesFerch said:
IIRC, the repair resets some things in the user profile. For example, I'm pretty sure it deletes the FolderTypes key that WinSetView creates in HKCU. I assume it only does that "cleanup" for the user profile where the repair was initiated and not all user profiles. I'll run a test or two when I get a chance and report back...

I know it will over-write Windows files. I'm more than positive that it won't over-write a User Profile. If I'm wrong I'm sure I will be corrected.

antspants · Sep 9, 2024

LesFerch said:
Sometimes running a repair install (which keeps your apps and data) will fix certain user profile problems

Les I was under the impression that an in-place wont fix/touch user profile issues?

Still well worth doing though. Could save much time, as Les said. Either that or make the new profile admin and move your user data. But that’s not as easy as an in place.

LesFerch · Sep 9, 2024

@antspants and @Winuser

I exported HKCU before and after running a repair install on 24H2. There was significant clean-up:

HKCU size before: 6,166 KB
HKCU size after: 5,244 KB

I also confirmed that the FolderTypes key, within HKCU, that WinSetView created, was removed (so I had to run WinSetView and click Submit to reset my folder view defaults).

However, it looks like most settings remain. So, the repair definitely touches the profile, but it's not an over-write. Some entries are overwritten, but it's too tedious to figure which, if any, of those are significant.

What can it fix in a profile? Who knows, but it's worth a try. I had a problem once with my code-signing software that I confirmed, by testing with another account, to be a profile registry issue. The repair fixed it.

antspants · Sep 9, 2024

LesFerch said:
What can it fix in a profile? Who knows, but it's worth a try.

Without a doubt.

Winuser · Sep 9, 2024

@LesFerch & @antspants, One never knows unless they try.

Edit: Backup images are our friend. With a backup image, experimenting isn't so scary.

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