new entry in context menu gone
A while after installing new video drivers I noticed that the "new"
entry in my context menu (that which appears if I rightclick in a folder) is gone. When using Google I find a lot of articles about adding that entry to Windows98SE by editing the registry - but I found nothing specific to WIndows ME that I´m using. Is the entry identical that needs to be added to the registry? |
new entry in context menu gone
Mike M schrieb:
Michael Romes wrote: A while after installing new video drivers I noticed that the "new" entry in my context menu (that which appears if I rightclick in a folder) is gone. When using Google I find a lot of articles about adding that entry to Windows98SE by editing the registry - but I found nothing specific to WIndows ME that I´m using. Is the entry identical that needs to be added to the registry? This used to be a quite common problem when installing video drivers from nVidia where for some reason the installer (rather than the drivers themselves) deletes more of the contents of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Directory key than just the branch involved with New Folders. I have attached a zip file containing a registry file (directory.reg) that when extracted from the zip file and merged with the registry should restore all of the functionality you lost when installing your drivers. Thankyou for your offer - however I hesitated to download and merge some unknown file. But in the meantime I found the answer on the german microsoft site: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=180257 or english http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180257/EN-US/ and when I edited that entry into the registry using regedit my new command was there again :-) |
new entry in context menu gone
Michael Romes wrote:
Thankyou for your offer - however I hesitated to download and merge some unknown file. But in the meantime I found the answer on the german microsoft site: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=180257 or english http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180257/EN-US/ and when I edited that entry into the registry using regedit my new command was there again :-) That's good to read. Nevertheless check that you didn't lose more than just the right click "New" option following your driver install. You don't need to actually merge the reg file I posted but instead you can open it in a text viewer such as Notepad and compare the various keys and their data for the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Directory with those in your system using regedit. Incidentally, Microsoft Knowledge Base references such as http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=180257 open in the users default language and only need the addition of /en-us/ where the user's default language is other than English and the user wishes to view the English version of the KB. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP 2001-2009 |
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