Why does my right click context menu have two styles?

[dcoaster]

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

The first picture shows the context menu I get when I right click any file (shortcut, picture, document, video, etc.)

The second picture shows the context menu I *should* be getting. This one only occurs when I right click on a folder, link, the taskbar, anything in the Start menu, or any other system element.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

Windows 7 Professional x86

[strelok1911]

Notepad++ is incompatible with the new style.

REmove the context option and it will be back to normal.

[Eric Veteran]

It could be the "Downloads" folder. Music/Pictures/etc point at a library. Adding the Downloads link to my start menu via the SM properties results in the same thing. Maybe it's a direct link instead of a library shortcut?

EDIT: Confirmed. Pulling up the properties dialog on the "Downloads" start menu link gives me standard folder properties as if it were a shortcut. The others give me the Library dialog.

[fhpuqrgrpgvirzhpujbj]

Notepad++ is incompatible with the new style.

REmove the context option and it will be back to normal.

I have N++ on my Context menu and my menus are all normal.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I had the same problem. Uninstalling Notepad++ fixed it.

[Eric Veteran]

I don't have Notepad++. It only does this on the Downloads link on my system.

[dcoaster]

Notepad++ is incompatible with the new style.

REmove the context option and it will be back to normal.

Thanks so much! That was the issue. I used ShellExView to disable the context menu entry. Hopefully Notepad++ can get things moving in Windows 7 soon!

[hdood]

It's because one of your shell extensions is incompatible with the new menu API, which means Explorer has to revert to the old one. It's because the extension displays an image using owner-drawn menus, which is how you would do it before the functionality was built in starting with Vista.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I don't have Notepad++. It only does this on the Downloads link on my system.

Not on my system:

[fhpuqrgrpgvirzhpujbj]

N++ works fine with 7...

[Eric Veteran]

Not on my system:

No, in the start menu. :)

The "Downloads" link has a different menu than the other user folders.

[Ambroos]

No, in the start menu. :)

The "Downloads" link has a different menu than the other user folders.

Downloads is an actual folder, the others are libraries.

[dcoaster]

What version of NPP do you have, omnicoder?

[Mathachew Veteran]

A slightly different scenario for me: I don't get the full context menu of folders within libraries. I use Tortoise SVN and when I navigate to folders starting under Library, I don't get any of my SVN options. In addition to this, the same menu comes up if I'm browsing for a file within my text editor, even if it's not within a Library. I just want my SVN options :(

[Eric Veteran]

Downloads is an actual folder, the others are libraries.

^^

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...amp;p=591835604

Yes, I said that. :) Libraries don't have folder/file properties because they're not a folder or file, so the shell doesn't add SVN/Rar/etc to the library context menu. There doesn't appear to be a way to make a Download library then add it to the start menu. It always points directly to the folder, so it gets folder/file menu items.

It looks like the OP's issue was unrelated, though. Glad it's fixed.