Reply to: Win10 application jump lists

[ladymuck]

Jump Lists returned. No idea what brought them back.

[ladymuck]

look in:
Settings > Personalization > Start. “Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar.”

perhaps?

<* I am not micro Certified. I know little about such toys. take any advice with 500g of Saxa.>

Yep, that's always been enabled. I have toggled it off/on on one machine, which cleared the recent folder. I'll see if that slowly rebuilds as I open docs and restores the right click functionality.

[courtg9000]

Maybe Try Open Shell its a very customisable start menu replacement.

[sadkingbilly]

look in:
Settings > Personalization > Start. “Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar.”

perhaps?

<* I am not micro Certified. I know little about such toys. take any advice with 500g of Saxa.>

[woody1]

Right-click-jump-list is there in Win11, so I'd be surprised if MS intentionally removed it in a Win10 update.

More likely it's a defect in the update.

[ladymuck]

A whole heap of updated dlls seem to have now removed the jump list functionality from the laptop that still had them. Hard to tell which one is the culprit.



If I search for an app from the start menu, the jump list is there, with the pinned files nicely displayed. The recent files links are all in C:\users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\ Recent. It seems that M$ have decided that no-one used the right click functionality.

I am very grumpy about this.

[ladymuck]

I have noticed that restore points aren't always set when there's an update, which has caused me no end of hassle in the past. I'll have a look though, as I didn't think to bother looking. I have data back ups (everything on OneDrive which is sync'd to my NAS, with full version history) but have been less bothered about backing up the OS side of things.

[Uncle Albert]

Have you got a restore point you can go back to? That's fixed things for me in the past.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Thank feck for Win2k and Win98. Neither of which update anything at all any more. For the Win! (see wot I did there, ).

[ladymuck]

Thanks! Sounds like a good avenue of investigation.

[woody1]

I checked a load of registry settings based on some website article. Compared all the usual settings one would expect to have set, cross referenced all of the patches installed this year. Still can't find the point of difference.

What I did once, when things went a bit screwy, was did a search on the C drive for any OS files (eg. *.dll) which had been modified in the past N weeks.

From what you say, it doesn't sound like a Windows update has done this but other than that it's hard to think of anything else which could have changed the behaviour of two machines at the same time.

You don't have any applications which auto-update? I use Opera which was forever updating, and I ended up disabling the auto-update. A search for recently modified dlls should reveal any apps which have been updated.

[ladymuck]

I checked a load of registry settings based on some website article. Compared all the usual settings one would expect to have set, cross referenced all of the patches installed this year. Still can't find the point of difference.

[sadkingbilly]

At least it improves with every new version.

Piled Higher and Deeper?

[woody1]

ah, good old windoze. software as a sh1teheap.

At least it improves with every new version.

[woody1]

It's only happened recently, maybe in the past two weeks. I could do a side-by-side check of what updates are on the working device compared to the non-working.

Maybe also compare any relevant registry settings.

I don't fancy doing a repair, the last time I attempted that I ended up having to do a totally clean reinstallation as it borked itself.

TBH I wouldn't trust it either.