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Windows context menu items not showing until hover

I have a strange bug. Windows 10 context menus (on desktop and in apps) is white and not showing until I hover over it. Video: https://i.imgur.com/PvG6tMy.gifv
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Ignoring file extension when running program from Windows context menu?

I have added a "convert to JPG" option to my windows context menu. I have accomplished this by setting the context menu to run magick convert %1 %1.jpg. However, while this works, it will leave the ...
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Right Click Context menu - Menu Item name is location of right click target

Is it possible to add an option to the right click context menu that has a dynamic name? Meaning the name could change? I'd like to (for fun) have a menu option added with a name that would be the ...
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Download With IDM context menu disabled in Opera

The context menu items are gray and can not be clicked. Reinstalling IDM, reinstalling IDM Extention, Reinstalling Opera nothing helped. But the context menus are fine in Google Chrome. How can I ...
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How to add "Duplicate" to Windows 8/10 context menu

I work between Mac and Windows all day mostly with Creative Cloud products. One item I really miss on windows it the simple 'duplicate' command. Context or CMD+D on a Mac. I know I can copy and ...
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How do I correctly return context from a gnuwin32 grep (grep in windows cmd)?

I want to return a line of context after the string I'm searching for as per grep --help Context control: -B, --before-context=NUM print NUM lines of leading context -A, --after-context=NUM ...
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what's the meaning of ^@, ^I and $ in vi?

When I try to use Context.write(k,v) in MapReduce(using Java) to write data to a file ,I find the following contents in file(opened with vi, have :set list): ^@R^@u^@n^@^I1$ ^@a^@c^@c^@e^@s^@s^@^I1$ ^...
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I want to make my MacBook Pro's security settings location-aware and automatic

I travel back and forth, using the same macbook pro at the office as I do at home. How can I get my MacBook Pro to recognize when it's at home and doesn't need to keep bringing up the password screen ...
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Shell Context Menu Commands for Kindle Files Only Showing for Certain Extensions

A while ago, I added a number of context menu commands to import Kindle books into Calibre and convert them to EPUB (under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Amazon.Kindle.content). All associated extensions are set ...
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Is there a search addon for Firefox that allows to add GET/POST variables from current page?

What I am looking for is basically the Firefox equivalent to this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/selection-search/gipnlpdeieaidmmeaichnddnmjmcakoe Now before everybody ...
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When a thread is created, how is the initial context determined? [closed]

How is a thread's initial context (registers state) determined on thread creation? For example: Current thread context eax=0x4, ebx=0x9000, ecx=0xfff, etc... Create a thread is called to begin ...
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Windows 7 Batch file to Make Directory

I had a simple batch file I would use in Windows XP to create a set of specific subfolders inside a folder. I had it set up as a Right-Click context menu so that when I right-clicked on a folder ...
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How can I find StackOverflow answers in my search results easier? [closed]

In my every day Google, Yahoo, and Bing searches, how can I better pick out the results that are StackOverflow results? (Sure wish my browser knew I preferred getting StackOverflow results)
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Help files and power point presentations

Edit: Some clarifications: We already use Help and Manual for our help files The question is really what to use that allows us to make hyperlinks from help file to presentation, and back, and still ...
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What’s the deal with helpfiles these days?

In relation with this question at SuperUser, I also want some user feedback about this topic. So you install a desktop application which you've just bought/downloaded/pirated and you start it up. You ...
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Marco Polo for Windows

Marco Polo is an Apple solution which "knows" where you are and configures your networking, printers, shares, proxies etc... Basically anything that can change when you change location. Windows 7 has ...
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