Windows Feature Updates and Explorer Context Menu Items
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It happened again today. I installed a Windows 10 Feature Update (21H1), and lost two (2) of my extra custom context menu items. The two in question pass the selected file name(s) to
attrib.exe, a system utility that dates all the way to PC-DOS 1.0. Strangely, other custom menu items that call command line utilities, a mix of commercially available programs (streams.exefrom the SysInternals bundle) and privately developed programs (Date2FN.exe, a command line utility of my own devising that appends the last modified date to the base name of a file) are preserved. Go figure.David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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It happened again today. I installed a Windows 10 Feature Update (21H1), and lost two (2) of my extra custom context menu items. The two in question pass the selected file name(s) to
attrib.exe, a system utility that dates all the way to PC-DOS 1.0. Strangely, other custom menu items that call command line utilities, a mix of commercially available programs (streams.exefrom the SysInternals bundle) and privately developed programs (Date2FN.exe, a command line utility of my own devising that appends the last modified date to the base name of a file) are preserved. Go figure.David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
I'm just hypothesizing about this but it just may be that these update have deliberate things like that built in to annoy and distract users whilst some other insidious things are then able to go unnoticed. Not having Win10 on any system I can't verify that.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I'm just hypothesizing about this but it just may be that these update have deliberate things like that built in to annoy and distract users whilst some other insidious things are then able to go unnoticed. Not having Win10 on any system I can't verify that.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
It could be that they let the shiny Icon designer do some logical programming for a change. :)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I'm just hypothesizing about this but it just may be that these update have deliberate things like that built in to annoy and distract users whilst some other insidious things are then able to go unnoticed. Not having Win10 on any system I can't verify that.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I suppose that could be the case. However, I suspect it's more likely a benign oversight.
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting