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Discus and support Windows 10 tweaking, somehow I broke context menus for taskbar icons in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hi guys. Any idea which registry setting might cause this problem? I'm currently optimizing Windows 10 2009 with VMware OSOT and somehow I broke... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by j86, Jan 15, 2021.

  1. J86
    j86 Win User

    Windows 10 tweaking, somehow I broke context menus for taskbar icons


    Hi guys. Any idea which registry setting might cause this problem? I'm currently optimizing Windows 10 2009 with VMware OSOT and somehow I broke taskbar icon/element context menus by adjusting some string I'm not aware of having this effect.

    Any pointer would be helpful, thanks!

    It should look like this:
    https://i.imgur.com/iVf6EUm.png

    But now it looks like this:
    https://i.imgur.com/0qu51OM.png

    Edit: For additional info, my HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced looks like this:
    https://i.imgur.com/supao0E.png

    :)
     
  2. Rea_13 Win User

    Context menu on taskbar icon

    I have issue with taskbar icons. When I right click on icon, context menu does not appear. For example, right click on edge should show close window, new window, incognito new window.

    Does anyone know how to solve this?
     
    Rea_13, Jan 15, 2021
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  3. Naki Win User
    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?
     
  4. wupp Win User

    Windows 10 tweaking, somehow I broke context menus for taskbar icons

    Is there a way to add new items to the context menu of taskbar icons in Windows 10?

    It is possible to add custom items to the context menu of specific file types through the registry, however extending the .lnk files, that I suppose are used in the windows 10 taskbar has no effect on the context menu that accessible from the taskbar, only on the ones accessible from desktop or file explorers.

    I'd like to either add a custom option to the jumplist menu (on the taskbar), or to the menu that shows up once right-clicking the shortuct icon in the jumplist menu.

    My goal is to be able to open the file location of items located on the taskbar more efficiently, currently the best way I know is:

    1. Right click the icon on the taskbar
    2. Right click the app's shortcut in the jumplist menu
    3. Click on 'Properties'
    4. Click on 'Open file location'
    5. Close the Properties window

    I'd like to shave off as many steps as possible from this process.
     
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