Win10 application jump lists

[ladymuck]

Thanks! Sounds like a good avenue of investigation.

[DoctorStrangelove]

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

[Uncle Albert]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.>

[courtg9000]

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

[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.

[ladymuck]

Jump Lists returned. No idea what brought them back.