I recently found out that there is a registry hack you can use to get back this menu. It’s so dumb that you have to even do this but at least it’s an option. howtogeek.com/…/how-to-get-full-context-menus-in-…
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c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 months agoI’ve literally restarted explorer before to accomplish certain workarounds (like getting the old right click menu back) and had zero issues with data loss.
I don’t see how you could have lost data because the shell crashed when I intentionally killed it and had zero interruptions to my workflow. I’m pretty sure it’s just a way to interact with the file system.
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Alternatively, if you’re only really bothered by the new one missing shell extensions/* then you can use Custom Context Menu to add your own context menu entries.
/*Which is really on the third party devs, as they could easily register them for the new context menu.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s the method I used, yeah. You have to either restart the computer or just restart file explorer.
I think it’s stupid they changed it, 9/10 times when I need the menu I need something that requires an extra click, stupid UI regression.
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You can also use Shift +Right Click to show the menu. I just hate having to do that.
ratman150@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah I have too and it’s these games I get tired of. In this case I lost data, it’s the first time that’s ever happened and it 100% was caused by a problem with explorer.exe.
Before anyone asked, I didn’t have a backup of this data as it was deemed not important which it was not, but it was the last straw for me.