Personalization Add or Remove "Open file location" and "Open folder location" context menu in Windows

imanlien2020 · Jan 16, 2023

I have had these in my menu automatically for some time. Ive never used any registry tweak etc.

Brink · Jan 17, 2023

imanlien2020 said:
I have had these in my menu automatically for some time. Ive never used any registry tweak etc.

Hello,

Yep, they are there by default. It's mostly for if one wanted to remove them.

retexan599 · Nov 5, 2023

I happened across this thread in connection with another (probably unrelated) problem that I have posted in another thread:
("Open file location" or “Save image as” opens to Desktop folder instead of target folder.)

Re this thread - I looked at my own registry. The items in your suggested reg file are empty in mine. For example:
Your:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\OpenContainingFolderMenu]
@="{37ea3a21-7493-4208-a011-7f9ea79ce9f5}"

In mine it simply shows as

All of the items in your reg file are empty in the same way in my registry. I do have 'Open file location' in my context files so that is somewhat confusing.

Of course, what I am wondering is whether the absent reg file entries might have something to do with the 'wrong target' problem I mentioned above.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

Brink · Nov 5, 2023

Hello @retexan599,

I just checked in build 25987 (Canary), but my registry still has all the same values in the Add REG file.

retexan599 · Nov 5, 2023

Brink said:
Hello @retexan599,

I just checked in build 25987 (Canary), but my registry still has all the same values in the Add REG file.

So, for some reason, my context menus have the 'Open file location', even though I do not have those entries in my registry. Wonder how that works. Perhaps I should go ahead and do the Add REG file, although don't want to mess up something.

Brink · Nov 5, 2023

retexan599 said:
So, for some reason, my context menus have the 'Open file location', even though I do not have those entries in my registry. Wonder how that works. Perhaps I should go ahead and do the Add REG file, although don't want to mess up something.

You could create a restore point before doing so to have if needed, but it shouldn't be an issues since it's the default registry entries.

retexan599 · Nov 5, 2023

Brink said:
You could create a restore point before doing so to have if needed, but it shouldn't be an issues since it's the default registry entries.

OK, thanks.

retexan599 · Nov 6, 2023

Hello again. I ran the REG file as you show above. However it did not change any of the registry values noted in the REG file. They still show

I have a feeling that my system image has a number of problems (e.g. the problem I mentioned in my earliest post) where Open Folder location from a right click on a file, always defaults to the Desktop Folder instead of the target folder. If you have any thoughts, would appreciate.

Brink · Nov 6, 2023

retexan599 said:
Hello again. I ran the REG file as you show above. However it did not change any of the registry values noted in the REG file. They still show

I have a feeling that my system image has a number of problems (e.g. the problem I mentioned in my earliest post) where Open Folder location from a right click on a file, always defaults to the Desktop Folder instead of the target folder. If you have any thoughts, would appreciate.

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