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Win11 tier 1 context menu needs explorer.exe restart #19124

Open stefansjfw opened 2 years ago

stefansjfw commented 2 years ago

... 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

zadjii-msft commented 2 years ago

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.

human200200 commented 1 year ago

date windows11

Jay-o-Way commented 1 year ago

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

stefansjfw commented 1 year ago

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

Jay-o-Way commented 11 months ago

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

stefansjfw commented 11 months ago

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 🤷