Windows 10: Windows 10 right clicking personalization or display settings not working!

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Desktop Right Click Personalize and Display Settings don't work

I can successfully run Personalize and Display Settings from the PC Settings submenu. However, when I Right Click desktop, Personalize and Display Settings show up in the little menu, but do not work. I get a very brief CMD screen, then nothing. I have tried: Scannow and DISM clean, and removed the two HKLM and the HKCR registry items and the that are suggested online. I've updated graphics drivers. I've fully updated Windows 10 to ver1909. Any other suggestions to get this to work from Right Click desktop on my Lenovo AIO greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
Peter

 

Desktop Right Click Personalize and Display Settings don't work

Okay, I'm back earlier than I expected and I tested this on a system and it works as expected (at least for me), although I was not missing either of these context menu items as you are.

So it actually turns out in this instance to be easier to NOT use the regini utility.

Do this:

NOTE: Make sure that you are logged on with an Admin account before doing this.

Run REGEDIT.

Navigate to to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\Display

Right-click on that key in the left pane and choose Permissions...

Click on Advanced

Note the name of the owner near the top of the Advanced Security Settings for Display window. To the right of that owner, click on "Change". In the Enter the object name to select box, type in "Administrators" and hit Enter. That will take you back to the previous screen. The owner should now indicate administrators.

In the Permission entries section, you will see several colums of information. One of those colums is called "Principal". Look for the entry that starts with "Administrators". Click on that line and then click the "Edit" button. Check the box next to "Full Control" and then click the "OK" button.

On the line with "Administrators" listed as the principal, the "Access" column for that line should now say Full Control.

Click on the OK button.

Click on OK again.

In regedit, expand the Display key and select the "command" key. Repeat the above steps for this key.

When done, close the registry editor.

Double-click the "Remove_Display_settings_from_desktop_context_menu.reg" that you downloaded.

Restart Windows.

NOTE: I don't know for sure that a reboot is absolutely necessary, but it's a good idea after making a registry change.

NOTE: In my testing, it looks like these keys get automatically recreated after I delete them. So you may want to check shortly after you have rebooted if the Display Settings context menu item is already available. If not, proceed with the below steps:

Once the system is back up again, double-click the "Add_Display_settings_to_desktop_context_menu.reg" that you downloaded.

If it fails, you may need to follow the steps above again to change the permissions on those keys, just don't delete the keys after you have recreated them this time.

Reboot once more.

Is the Display Settings context menu item available now?

 

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?