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Post by The Jackal on Sept 21, 2019 11:23:02 GMT -8
Windows 7 saw the removal of the "Explore" item in the context menus. I know why, it was redundant, but I still would like to restore it. Here's the Recycle Bin context menu in Windows 2000:  And the same context menu in W10 after a bit of editing:  So, any tips on how to restore that option? Tips? Suggestions? I'd really like to find out to do it, and I would appreciate any input. Cheers.  |
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Post by R.O.B. on Sept 21, 2019 14:45:24 GMT -8
Interesting question. Never really looked into this before, but now you've made me curious. So I decided to do some digging, and it's actually surprisingly simple to do. It turns out this option wasn't actually removed in Windows 7: just hidden from context menus. Looking at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell\explore you'll find an string value called " ProgrammaticAccessOnly". All you have to do is rename or delete this, and the menu item will be restored!  It's actually not quite as redundant as you might expect either. If you have the navigation pane hidden, the "Open" option will open an Explorer window without it being displayed. The "Explore" option, however, will always open windows with the navigation pane shown, regardless of your current settings for it. Though for some reason, this only seems to apply to folder icons on the desktop, and not in Explorer windows. This is the same behavior seen in Windows Vista, and unfortunately I haven't figured out how to change it yet. I'll post back here if that changes. |
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Post by The Jackal on Sept 21, 2019 16:39:14 GMT -8
You've made my night, it works like a charm! Thank you for your help, R.O.B.  As for the actual behaviour of the item itself, I made an exact copy of this thread over on Tenforums, and a few on there seem to think it did the same as "Open", which is what I assumed it did as well. Interesting to know it actually open an Explorer window with the treeview on, I had no idea. I can also report the same behaviour with only working on the desktop, but I'm cool with that, just happy to have it restored. Many thanks again. |
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Post by The Jackal on Sept 25, 2019 11:04:11 GMT -8
Quick question R.O.B, it's related in a way to this topic, but I didn't feel it worthy of a thread, but is there any way to change the Properties item? In W2K it's "P&roperties" but on W10 they changed it to "Pr&operties". Scans in the registry and searches online reveal nothing on being able to change it, so I assume it's got to be hard coded? Cheers! |
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Post by gcomputzide on Sept 26, 2019 1:15:46 GMT -8
somehow Mine didn't have _(&) on it.
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Post by powerplayer on Sept 26, 2019 2:36:41 GMT -8
why not just export the working regentry in 2 different .reg files called restoreexploreON and RestoreexploreOFF .reg and upload them here?
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Post by leet on Oct 6, 2019 10:19:59 GMT -8
Interesting question. Never really looked into this before, but now you've made me curious. So I decided to do some digging, and it's actually surprisingly simple to do. It turns out this option wasn't actually removed in Windows 7: just hidden from context menus. Looking at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell\explore you'll find an string value called " ProgrammaticAccessOnly". All you have to do is rename or delete this, and the menu item will be restored! It's actually not quite as redundant as you might expect either. If you have the navigation pane hidden, the "Open" option will open an Explorer window without it being displayed. The "Explore" option, however, will always open windows with the navigation pane shown, regardless of your current settings for it. Though for some reason, this only seems to apply to folder icons on the desktop, and not in Explorer windows. This is the same behavior seen in Windows Vista, and unfortunately I haven't figured out how to change it yet. I'll post back here if that changes. Wow, looks awesome! Definitely doing this! |
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Post by The Jackal on Apr 14, 2020 9:01:51 GMT -8
I figured it out how to change the Properties item in the context menu: Editing the lines in shell32.dll.mui, then ran mcbuilder, then restarted explorer.  I'm not the only one who experienced this so it must've been a change they introduced in one of the build changes. Stupid decision seeing as Open uses the same shortcut key. Anyways, whilst I was there I restored this as well, which always bugged me:  "Open File Location" might make more sense, but I always preferred the older term, esp considered they still refer to it as a Target elsewhere in the dialog. |
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Post by The Jackal on Apr 21, 2020 13:33:47 GMT -8
If you have the navigation pane hidden, the "Open" option will open an Explorer window without it being displayed. The "Explore" option, however, will always open windows with the navigation pane shown, regardless of your current settings for it. Though for some reason, this only seems to apply to folder icons on the desktop, and not in Explorer windows. I think I know why - it's piggybacking off of the "Open as new window" option.  If you disable the 'ProgrammaticAccessOnly' key to restore the "Explorer" entry in the context menu, then delete "Open a new window" option, it will break Explorer. If you delete that same item with "Explore" disabled, Explorer will work just fine. From my understanding, the 'ProgrammaticAccessOnly' key disables the function from appearing in context menus but keeps the function working. "LegacyDisable" outright removes the item in menus as well stops it working. |
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Post by travis on Nov 10, 2020 17:04:37 GMT -8
why not just export the working regentry in 2 different .reg files called restoreexploreON and RestoreexploreOFF .reg and upload them here? sure Attachments:ExploreOff.reg (228 B)
ExploreOn.reg (226 B)
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