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How to call TortoiseSVN Explorer context menu?
I have none if rightclick. Where it should be?
UPDATE 1
Permission problem is not the reason.
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Gnome Shell extensions cannot be activated
I have several Gnome shell extensions that are suddenly disabled since the last reboot and cannot be enabled. I have not made any changes to the system (not consciously).
All of the extensions worked ...
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Install gnome-shell extension on command line?
I'm looking for a way to reliably install gnome-shell extensions on the command line. At the end of the day, I'd like to have an Ansible playbook.
As an example, I'd like to install custom-hot-corners-...
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Registering a property sheet shell extension for Win10 and Win11 doesn't work for .arw file
I wrote a property sheet shell extension to display metadata from a file.
It works perfectly for a new file type such as .foobar.
But when registering for the existing .arw, the property sheet shell ...
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A compression program that handles files with unusual extensions [closed]
WAR files are simply ZIP files with a renamed extension. I'd like to configure a compression program to handle these (on double-clicking the file), but mine doesn't recognize them unless I rename them ...
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Add menu items to SHIFT + right click menu on Windows
The point is to add right click menu items only for Shift+Right click. Don't even bother: regular right click is all over the web, but I want to add some items that wouldn't clutter my right click.
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How to disable all explorer / shell extensions permanentely
Since quite a while i sometimes run into the problem that just opening a file in any application (using the open file dialog) takes some 20 Seconds each time. I tracked this down to some explorer ...
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How to list Explorer extensions and disable them?
I have reason to believe that I may have malware on my system in the form of an Explorer extension. I suspect this because Procmon shows that Explorer.exe keeps re-writing a certain Registry key that ...
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What is the purpose of the .ZFSendToTarget extension?
I learned about this from watching a video about some "Tech Support" scam (watch the last 10 minutes if you want a good laugh) where one of the tactics used by the scammer is getting the victim to ...
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How can I install filezilla's shell extension?
I am trying to drag&drop a file from filezilla to some Windows program. I get this filezilla message:
How can I install filezilla's shell extension?
I use filezilla on Windows 10 Enterprise.
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What is Windows Enhanced Storage?
I got an strange icon overlay on my USB stick drive:
In my previous question I could identify it's EhStorShell.dll drawing that overlay there (Thanks!). The dll has the description Windows Enhanced ...
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Registering Windows Explorer Shell Extension (Context Menu Handler)
I try to develop a windows explorer context menu handler. I am new to this type of development. So I want to start with examples.
I started with SharpShell examples:
https://www.codeproject.com/...
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Add to ZIP option in context menu for WinRAR
With WinRAR installed, by default, your context menu (Right-click on file) says something like "Add directory to *.rar archive".
It's very handy but not cooperating with other systems that handle zip,...
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Does Windows 8 Explorer have a FolderSize column (or restore the column-handler API)?
One of the biggest complaints about Windows Vista (and 7) was that it removed the API that allows developers to create column-handlers, and as such, useful programs like Folder Size can no longer ...
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Editor for Windows Explorer's context menu
Does anyone know of a good application for editing the context menu's used by Windows explorer in Vista?
Reasons for wanting one:
When I right click on a file, I get a very long list of things I can ...
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Custom folder added under this pc not auto selected by explorer
I successfully added a custom folder under this pc creating a new user shell folder generating a new clsid.
I’m hardly trying to achieve what happens with the default user shell folders like music, ...
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How to open a EAR/WAR file in windows 7
I have a few EAR/WAR files which are Java archives and I would like Windows 7 to open these files the way it opens a file with extension zip.
So I open this war file and in the list of softwares ...
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What is "Bluewire General Property Sheet" in Windows shell extensions?
Windows 7 is closing to end of support, but I still can't find any information on what is "Bluewire General Property Sheet" shell extension, and do I need it anywhere? It is preinstalled with Windows ...
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Windows explorer folder context menu closes itself
Environment: Windows 8.0 Professional x64
When I call up the context menu on a selected folder in the listview (actual view mode doesn't matter, I reproduce for list, icons, and details), either via ...
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Changing the position of right click menu items [duplicate]
I would very much like to reposition the AMD Radeon Settings option to be lower in the list. Is this even possible?
Thanks
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FileZilla can't drag and drop to Windows Explorer
When I try to drag and drop to my desktop or any folder outside of FileZilla, I get an error:
Could not determine the target of the Drag&Drop operation. Either the shell extension is not ...
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Restore visibility of shell namespace extension
I have a namespace extension that I "accidentally" removed by right-clicking on it in Windows Explorer and then deleting it (Windows 7). The prompt I was given was that I could restore it in Control ...
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Do I need multiple instances of the Dropbox shell extension?
Sysinternals Autoruns says that I have 8 instances of the Dropbox shell extension being loaded at startup, via the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\...
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Add a "Right-click on a .WAV file, Convert to MP3" extension to Explorer
I created a key in the Windows registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Convert to MP3\command
with:
"D:\tools\ffmpeg.exe" -i "%1" -acodec libmp3lame -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 256k "%1.mp3"
It works, ...
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"Open with GitKraken" shell extension doesn't work
I installed GitKraken yesterday and it works fine. I also noticed that when I rightclick a folder in Windows Explorer, I have an "Open with GitKraken" option. But when I click that, I get a messagebox ...
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How to add an explorer context menu for a file extension?
I was inspired by my other question to try the following:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.sln]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.sln\shell]
[...
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Gnome Shell Extension Key Binding
What is the simplest way to (globally) bind a key combination (e.g. <Super>+A) to a function in a gnome shell extension?
Inspecting a couple of extensions, I ran into the following code:
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Shell extension to unblock downloaded files
Is there a shell extension for Windows Explorer that adds a new context menu item, which allows to unblock the downloaded file? It should work exactly as I would open the file properties and click the ...
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How to assign a icon for "Copy/Cut/Paste/Delete" Windows default context menu items?
Under Windows 8/8.1 x64, I would like to assign a custom icon for the default Windows context menu items such as Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete, Undo, Redo and Send To items, which by default has any icon:
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Remove Shell Extension Folder X64
I have a very strange shell extension folder which I just can't get rid of.
How can I get rid of this? I already downloaded ShellExViewer, but I cannot find any extension called "X64", nor are the ...
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Classic Shell's "Shut Down..." button is missing
I use Classic Shell shell extension on my Windows 8 machines and on some of them the "Shut Down..." button is missing. Any ideas why?
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Do TortoiseGit and other shell extensions try to process remote fle systems?
Some of Windows directories mapped to WAN links and sometimes when I am browsing with Windows explorer it takes ages to respond. I am beginning to suspect that some of the shell extensions are ...
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How to enable WinZip setting via SCCM
I have deployed a pre-configured WinZip MSI without the shell extensions option due to Windows Explorer crashes.
However is there a way to apply a network setting via SCCM, or Group Policy to enable ...
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Set codepage for shell extension
I need to register a Shell Extension for Windows, which should be able to process files and folders with names in any language.
Unfortunately, Windows seems to run it's shell extensions through a ...
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Why does my static shortcut menu handler overwrite the Windows 10 Jumplist behaviour?
I recently wanted to add a new command menu to my right click menu to have the possibility to securely delete files and directories using Sysinternals SDelete.
Using the MSDN documentation and Regedit ...
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explorer.exe keeps restarting due to faulty shell extension, how to remove it?
I installed a shell extension that keeps crashing, thus making explorer.exe crashing.
As a result, I can't open anything, even a command prompt.
How to remove the faulty shell extension?
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right click and generate truecrypt volume from contents
has any one found a way to take the contents of a folder and programiticly generate a volume for it in truecrypt that is just the right size?
like in windows how you right click and select send to ...
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'Classic Shell' shell extension messed up explorer
On a Windows 10 box, installing and uninstalling the shell extension 'Classic Shell' has left some issues behind.
Notably, attempting to use the 'New Folder' button in the explorer window downright ...
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Shortcut to kill a process that's pinned on the taskbar?
Is there any extension/shortcut that i can create that allows me to kill a taskbar-pinned application?
The reason i need this is i often missclick the icons and most of the apps take quite a while to ...
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Looking for MD5 utility that integrates to Windows [duplicate]
Is there any small utility that integrates with the Windows shell and computes md5 of files on demand? I'm too lazy to launch the command line.
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File Explorer add-on to do a quick image preview and show image dimensions? [closed]
When I am in file explorer and hovering over a filename which is an image, I would like to see a preview of the image and display its width and height dimensions. It needs to be quick.
Any such tools ...
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Windows Explorer Shell-Extension: Column-Handler to Display Shortcut (.LNK) and Bookmark (.URL) Targets
I am looking for a Windows XP Explorer shell-extension that will install a column-handler to display the targets of shortcuts and bookmarks (ie .LNK and .URL files).
(Windows 7 has a built-in column ...
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Unlocker howto?! doesn't do anything
in an answer to a previous question another user recommended a tool to me, Unlocker. Its original homepage is offline, but there are plenty of websites which offer version 1.9.0 which I downloaded ...
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Knowing selections' and folders' size (in bytes, KB, etc.) at a glance
I'm wondering if there's a way to see easily the space things take up in the File explorer. When you select files, it's easy. For one, in the Details view, there's a Size column, in KB. And in the ...
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In HKCR, what is difference between Directory and Folder in context menu config
Following up on this question over at SO (How do I open cmd window in specific location?) I'm looking for an effective way to add the Open Command Prompt Here shortcut to a context menu. Various ...
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How can I create a right click menu item to manipulate a junction point?
As I am using a SSD but it is limited in size I want to be able to use junction points to remap files and directories to my HDD, this would work ideal if I could create a shell extension for it that ...
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*.cs files set to open with Notepad - how to restore?
I accidentally opened a Aspx.cs file in Notepad and now all *.cs files have been set to open with Notepad. What should I do to restore this "open with" setting for *.cs files to their original program?...
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How to Create New Folder in Windows XP and Add a new text file in the folder
I want new folders created on my Windows XP machine to automatically contain a text file.
Is there a way to perhaps add a new context menu on the right click menu which runs some sort of bat file?
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Debugging shell-extension that causes windows to freeze
For some time now, I have been living with and working around an annoying problem in Windows XP whereby any time I open a file dialog (Open/Save) in any program, not long afterwards, that program will ...
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Is "Windows x64 Shell Extension dispatch for Context Menus" necessary?
My new Win7 X64 laptop takes forever to popup the context menu for a file or folder.
Using ShellExView, I narrowed it down to "Windows x64 Shell Extension dispatch for Context Menus" in ccshelxbx64....