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Win11 tier 1 context menu needs explorer.exe restart

Open stefansjfw opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

... investigating how to avoid needing to restart explorer for the context menu to recognize the new entries under Windows 11.

Originally posted by @jaimecbernardo in https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/19000#pullrequestreview-1024530325

stefansjfw avatar Jun 30 '22 18:06 stefansjfw

If you find a way, I'm sure we'd be interested too 😄. From what I know, this is just a known limitation of explorer.exe.

zadjii-msft avatar Jul 19 '22 10:07 zadjii-msft

date windows11

human200200 avatar Nov 09 '22 01:11 human200200

Is this still an issue with the latest version? /needinfo

Jay-o-Way avatar Feb 02 '23 16:02 Jay-o-Way

yes, it is. still a limitation of explorer.exe

stefansjfw avatar Feb 03 '23 10:02 stefansjfw

I was under the impression every context menu is built at request time. But I suppose that's not?

Jay-o-Way avatar Oct 22 '23 22:10 Jay-o-Way

I was under the impression every context menu is built at request time. But I suppose that's not?

This is only about Win11 tier1 context menu. I guess it has something to do with picking up registered msix packages with context menu handlers 🤷

stefansjfw avatar Oct 23 '23 10:10 stefansjfw