Thursday, January 2, 2014

Disappearing menus


Context menu
Windows 7's Explorer has a potentially confusing hidden rule that you need to understand. If you select more than 15 files or folders, and right-click one of them, you'll find that the 'Open' and 'Edit' context menu options, and maybe some third-party options have disappeared.

It turns out Microsoft removes these so you can't accidentally carry out time-consuming actions on a lot of files, but if you'd rather be able to make your own decisions about that, then there's an easy solution.


Launch Run write regedit  go to 

HEY_KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer,

and look for the DWORD value Multiple Invoke Prompt Minimum. You can create it if it isn't there. Set this to a value higher than 15, and after a reboot Windows Explorer will no longer hide menu options unexpectedly.

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