Page 1 of 1
Explorer right click menu item duplication
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 7:04 am
by BrianG61UK
I use ExamDiff Pro 16 on Windows 11 with the new style Windows 11 explorer right click menus disabled.
Can I somehow configure so that ExamDiff's items on the explorer right click menu are not unnecessarily duplicated?
See attached screenshot:
Re: Explorer right click menu item duplication
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 8:22 am
by psguru
Interesting... How did you disable the new menu? Using the Registry? Because here's what i did:
Ran this command:
Code: Select all
reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /ve /d "" /f
Then restarted explorer.exe and got this menu:
- Win11 Context Menu.png (12.6 KiB) Viewed 318 times
Re: Explorer right click menu item duplication
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 9:34 am
by BrianG61UK
psguru wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 8:22 am
How did you disable the new menu? Using the Registry?
With Winaero Tweaker.
I think it uses the same method you used, they say this reg file is the equivalent manual method:
Code: Select all
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]
@=""
Maybe it's because I always install ExamDiff upgrades over the old versions without uninstalling first?
Re: Explorer right click menu item duplication
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 9:38 am
by psguru
Maybe. Try uninstalling all versions and then install version 16. FWIW I have the same:
Code: Select all
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]
@=""
Re: Explorer right click menu item duplication
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 2:48 pm
by BrianG61UK
psguru wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 9:38 am
Try uninstalling all versions and then install version 16.
Thanks. That worked.
Then I uninstalled and reinstalled PowerArchiver to try to fix a similar minor problem I had with its context menu.
The problem with ExamDiff's menu then reappeared!
So it seems to be some kind of bizarre interaction between PowerArchiver and ExamDiff Pro!
Maybe I can investigate further at some point, now that I know I wasn't just failing to find a setting somewhere in ExamDiff Pro.
Re: Explorer right click menu item duplication
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 2:58 pm
by psguru
Thanks for letting us know.