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Neither VS Code nor Insider appears in Windows 11 Explorer context menu

Open IgorArnaut opened this issue 8 months ago • 12 comments

I've looked up GitHub discussions about the issue and these are LOCKED.

I've already tested the Insiders build.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: No.

  • VS Code Version: 1.100-0-insider
  • OS Version: Windows 11 64-bit

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Install VS Code
  2. During installation Enable Add "Open with Code - Insiders" action to Windows Explorer file context menu
  3. Right click a file and folder
  4. VS Code does not appear
  5. Click "Show More Options"
  6. VS Code does not appear there too

IgorArnaut avatar Apr 13 '25 10:04 IgorArnaut

same here

kouhe3 avatar Apr 14 '25 07:04 kouhe3

This appears to be an issue with one of the recent updates/installers. I am also seeing this issue after allowing my Insiders install to update to latest. My setup originally had the context menu entries enabled, but after an update in the last week, they are gone.

atom0s avatar Apr 14 '25 20:04 atom0s

Appears to be fixed now in the newest Insider update. My context menu options are back.

Visual Studio Code - Insiders
Version: 1.100.0-insider (system setup)
Commit: f56819db693dba84feb3716e278b5be0a7378633
Date: 2025-04-17T05:10:42.956Z (15 hrs ago)
Electron: 34.4.1
ElectronBuildId: 11317338
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

atom0s avatar Apr 17 '25 20:04 atom0s

same, f56819db693dba84feb3716e278b5be0a7378633 fixed here

kouhe3 avatar Apr 18 '25 04:04 kouhe3

"Open with Code - Insiders" in context menu on Windows 10 still missing here

Version: 1.103.0-insider Commit: f5db653369bc87e56162be11ed3af62746347558 Date: 2025-07-28T12:38:35.309Z Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code-Insiders/1.103.0-insider Chrome/138.0.7204.100 Electron/37.2.3 Safari/537.36

emeryao avatar Jul 29 '25 03:07 emeryao

may be dupe with pinned issue #260389

emeryao avatar Aug 08 '25 06:08 emeryao

"Open with Code - Insiders" in context menu still missing on my Windows 10 after uninstall and reinstall

Version: 1.104.0-insider (user setup)
Commit: a61e381bfa71c241738e48f2fc8b01eade94c91d
Date: 2025-08-14T20:20:09.764Z
Electron: 37.2.3
ElectronBuildId: 12035395
Chromium: 138.0.7204.100
Node.js: 22.17.0
V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

emeryao avatar Aug 15 '25 01:08 emeryao

I figure out a workaround with a reg file

emeryao avatar Aug 15 '25 08:08 emeryao

It's a little tricky here I some how restored the context menu with editing the registry with a file

But after the insiders version auto updates and restarts the context menu gone again 😆

Version: 1.104.0-insider (user setup) Commit: 0ab18bd00955d2a3d69eb66d8eea982b76a53780 Date: 2025-08-15T10:51:05.286Z Electron: 37.2.3 ElectronBuildId: 12035395 Chromium: 138.0.7204.100 Node.js: 22.17.0 V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0 OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

emeryao avatar Aug 18 '25 01:08 emeryao

Looks like one of the newer Insider updates broke this again. My context menu entries are gone again now. :(

atom0s avatar Dec 03 '25 09:12 atom0s

I have the problem with normal VS Code too.

IgorArnaut avatar Dec 09 '25 11:12 IgorArnaut

Does this issue repro with latest 1.107 insiders with user setup ?

  1. New context menu not showing for system setup in insiders is tracked in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/259505
  2. New context menu not showing for stable is tracked in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/204696

deepak1556 avatar Dec 10 '25 16:12 deepak1556

Does this issue repro with latest 1.107 insiders with user setup ?

1. New context menu not showing for system setup in insiders is tracked in [Context menu entries "Open with..." not available with insiders system setup #259505](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/259505)

2. New context menu not showing for stable is tracked in [[Meta] Enable windows 11 context menu by default in Stable #204696](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/204696)

Updated to latest Insiders this morning, the explorer/context menu options are still broken/missing.

Version: 1.108.0-insider (system setup)
Commit: f1db08ab87ec1108d0e3c2a20c7ffe5b8a55a23b
Date: 2025-12-10T18:27:57.535Z
Electron: 39.2.3
ElectronBuildId: 12895514
Chromium: 142.0.7444.175
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

atom0s avatar Dec 10 '25 22:12 atom0s

@atom0s that would be the system setup, please follow https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/259505 for updates

deepak1556 avatar Dec 11 '25 12:12 deepak1556