• R0cket_M00se
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    92 years ago

    I’ve literally restarted explorer before to accomplish certain workarounds (like getting the old right click menu back) and had zero issues with data loss.

    I don’t see how you could have lost data because the shell crashed when I intentionally killed it and had zero interruptions to my workflow. I’m pretty sure it’s just a way to interact with the file system.

      • R0cket_M00se
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        12 years ago

        That’s the method I used, yeah. You have to either restart the computer or just restart file explorer.

        I think it’s stupid they changed it, 9/10 times when I need the menu I need something that requires an extra click, stupid UI regression.

        • PlasmaDistortion
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          12 years ago

          You can also use Shift +Right Click to show the menu. I just hate having to do that.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years ago

        Alternatively, if you’re only really bothered by the new one missing shell extensions* then you can use Custom Context Menu to add your own context menu entries. I couldn’t stand not having “Add to VLC Playlist” or 7-Zip shell extensions, but otherwise I don’t mind it.

        *Which is really on the third party devs, as they could easily register them for the new context menu.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Yeah I have too and it’s these games I get tired of. In this case I lost data, it’s the first time that’s ever happened and it 100% was caused by a problem with explorer.exe.

      Before anyone asked, I didn’t have a backup of this data as it was deemed not important which it was not, but it was the last straw for me.