Solve : Vista right-click menu gone old-style?

1.	Solve : Vista right-click menu gone old-style?
Answer» Not a problem HI mate, just restored, and it hasn't changed. I don't want to go back any further.Does the same thing happen in My Computer, and Windows Explorer?Windows Explorer: Fine Inside any programs: Fine On the desktop: Fine except program shortcuts. My Computer, Recycle Bin, My Documents are fine. Taskbar: FineSo, ONLY desktop shortcuts display that short (#1) menu?No, the desktop shortcuts display the #2 menu. When I right-clicked My Computer on the desktop, #1 appeared.Well, it's all normal then...hehehehe My Computer right click menu looks the same (#1). You have too much time on hands....LOLUnless it's something they changed in SP2 and I didn't notice. Thanks anyway Broni. Yeah I do seem to have too much time LOL! Night.Trust me. Nothing has changed. It's only your imagination. It happens to everyone. Sometimes, I'd swear, that thing was brown, but in reality, it has always been black manadude2. Context menus change DEPENDING on what you right click on. That's why they are called context menus, they give you options that are in context with what you click on. If you right click on the taskbar it will give yet another completely different context menu.why would the menu with more options be the "OLD style" menu?It isn't, I think the OP just didn't know how to say what he/she was asking.Quote from: QUANTOS on August 10, 2009, 08:01:37 PM manadude2. Context menus change depending on what you right click on. That's why they are called context menus, they give you options that are in context with what you click on. If you right click on the taskbar it will give yet another completely different context menu. This is true. But that is not the answer to my question. If you look at the two images I posted which were taken from screenshots off my desktop, you will see that they look different. In #1, there is a line down the left side of all the options. In #2, there isn't. In #1, when you hover over an option, the blue highlight fades in and out. In #2, it just appears suddenly. I prefer #1 style, which is what I am trying to ask, how can I change #2 back to #1 because it sure was not LIKE that a few weeks ago. Also I just tried changing the theme back to Windows Vista rather than Modified Theme, and when it had completed, I right clicked a shortcut on my desktop and it looked like #1. I right clicked again and it had changed back to #2. There must be something wrong.#1 is for my computer. #2 is everything else. #1 has a "line" because there are no Menu Icons. #2 doesn't. It has the icons. a "workaround" might be to uninstall ALL programs that add a shell extension, or disable the shell extensions themselves (for example, 7-zip, powerarchiver, And I mean, All. one of them might be only compatible with IContextMenu2 and the effects you see are only with IContextMenu3... (effects, I might add, that I haven't seen ever- the "fade in" for menu items simply isn't implemented to begin with, AFAIK)

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Not a problem HI mate, just restored, and it hasn't changed. I don't want to go back any further.Does the same thing happen in My Computer, and Windows Explorer?Windows Explorer: Fine
Inside any programs: Fine
On the desktop: Fine except program shortcuts. My Computer, Recycle Bin, My Documents are fine.
Taskbar: FineSo, ONLY desktop shortcuts display that short (#1) menu?No, the desktop shortcuts display the #2 menu.

When I right-clicked My Computer on the desktop, #1 appeared.Well, it's all normal then...hehehehe
My Computer right click menu looks the same (#1).

You have too much time on hands....LOLUnless it's something they changed in SP2 and I didn't notice.

Thanks anyway Broni.

Yeah I do seem to have too much time LOL!

Night.Trust me. Nothing has changed. It's only your imagination.
It happens to everyone.
Sometimes, I'd swear, that thing was brown, but in reality, it has always been black manadude2.

Context menus change DEPENDING on what you right click on. That's why they are called context menus, they give you options that are in context with what you click on.

If you right click on the taskbar it will give yet another completely different context menu.why would the menu with more options be the "OLD style" menu?It isn't, I think the OP just didn't know how to say what he/she was asking.Quote from: QUANTOS on August 10, 2009, 08:01:37 PM

manadude2.

Context menus change depending on what you right click on. That's why they are called context menus, they give you options that are in context with what you click on.

If you right click on the taskbar it will give yet another completely different context menu.

This is true.

But that is not the answer to my question.

If you look at the two images I posted which were taken from screenshots off my desktop, you will see that they look different. In #1, there is a line down the left side of all the options. In #2, there isn't.

In #1, when you hover over an option, the blue highlight fades in and out. In #2, it just appears suddenly.

I prefer #1 style, which is what I am trying to ask, how can I change #2 back to #1 because it sure was not LIKE that a few weeks ago.

Also I just tried changing the theme back to Windows Vista rather than Modified Theme, and when it had completed, I right clicked a shortcut on my desktop and it looked like #1. I right clicked again and it had changed back to #2. There must be something wrong.#1 is for my computer. #2 is everything else.

#1 has a "line" because there are no Menu Icons.

#2 doesn't. It has the icons.

a "workaround" might be to uninstall ALL programs that add a shell extension, or disable the shell extensions themselves (for example, 7-zip, powerarchiver, And I mean, *All*.

one of them might be only compatible with IContextMenu2 and the effects you see are only with IContextMenu3... (effects, I might add, that I haven't seen ever- the "fade in" for menu items simply isn't implemented to begin with, AFAIK)

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