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Carol Haynes:
All my graphics file associations are screwe up so that Explorer conext menu no longer has any open options ???

"Open With" menu consists of "Open With" and does nothing.

I have checked through folder options to see what is going on and files still have correct command assocations for Open, Print etc., they just don't appear in the context menu.

I tried reinstalling PhotoShop to see if that would reset all the file associations etc. correctly but it hasn't managed to change the context menu.

If I look at a file's properties and change the apllication used to open the file the application list has the "Always open with this application" ticked and greyed out.

Anyone got any idea what the heck is going on and how to fix it ?

mouser:
first thing to try would be to reboot, sometimes windows gets confused.
have you tried that yet, if not try that first and then let us know.

Carol Haynes:
Nah - rebooted umpteen times - also been switch off all night, and was messed up then too ...

mouser:
did you recently add any new programs that modify the context menu?
another thing to try is, if you are using an alternative file explorer, definitely try windows explorer.

is it just the "open with" menu thats empty?

AbteriX:
That looks like an wrong or damadged context-menu handler.

That's something like:


--- ---HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ * \ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers \ something here
@="{3FBCD0B0-EB63-4737-9101-615610E83DF6}"
Are you aware with the registry ?
Could you save the hole HKCR\* sub-key
and than delete one by one item to see whats wrong ?
Need  you an step by step howto ?


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If you search for "your" GUID you see by "Open With"
you should find an "InProcServer32"-Key with   "%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll" as Standard.

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