Windows 10: Right-Click not working in Taskbar

Welcome to another episode of "The Computer Illiterate Electrical Engineer"...

Running W10 Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.959) on a Toshiba Satellite A665-S6086.

I just noticed the right click button on my touchpad will not allow me to access menus for taskbar icons. I just happened to be cleaning up my taskbar a bit and had not notice this previously.

I did the generally accepted "low hanging fruit" troubleshooting, i.e. Restart Windows Explorer, Uninstall and reinstall drivers, etc. to no avail.

I'm sure it's a simple fix but none of the 4-5 methods I found seemed to work and in theory, and judging by the mouse and touchpad settings currently enabled, it should work.

:)

 

Feature suggestion: Add right-click menu

Suggestion: Please add a Windows 7 Jump-List and/or right-click menu to the GPU-Z icon in the Windows taskbar. Possible menus in it would be "Exit" and "About GPU-Z...".
Maybe also "Switch to tab 1/Switch to tab 2/Switch to videocard 1/Switch to videocard 2" too.
Examples of programs that have such menus are ICQ, Skype, AIM.

NOTE: It seems for a right-click menu, Windows 7 is not needed - it works on WinXP and Vista too.
But even a Windows 7 Jump-list may be good enough.
What do you think?

 

mouse right click will not open my file explorer in taskbar

Hello Carl,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

We regret the inconvenience caused to you. We will assist you to resolve this issue.

• What happens when you left clicking?
• When you say right click, do you actually mean left click?
• Which all troubleshooting steps have you already tried to resolve this issue?

Left clicking with mouse will open File explorer or any other programs. Whereas right click will give you context menu.

I suggest you to right-click on the File Explorer
on the task bar and select Unpin from Taskbar. Now in the search bar type
File Explorer and right click on it and select Pin it to Taskbar
and check if it helps.

Let us know the status of the issue. We will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.

 

No response if I Right click (Windows Icon on the Taskbar)

I saw that in your list, not knowing anything about it though, I just suggested the ones I know have questionable pasts.

At least you figured it out, nice work!