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textpad hangs before opening a file with context menu
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 7:23 pm
by crassius
Just updated to 4.7 to see if the context menu would finally start working. No luck. The registry entries are correct, the shellext.dll is ver. 1.3, but textpad never opens and shutting down the "not responding" task also closes the current window of 'windows explorer'.
I'm on a win ME machine with nothing weird running (no AVs, desktop shells, or anything else I can think of)
'Send to' and 'open with' work OK, just no context menu success.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 3:23 am
by webmasta
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 6:58 pm
by bartlett22183
webmasta has given some good instructions. However, I suggest reading the entire thread.
textpad hangs before opening a file with context menu
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 7:15 pm
by crassius
Thanks for the pointer, but I've tried all that. Before moving to winME, I used to add shell cmds to the "*" and/or "unknown" file types, but in winME they now interfere with some of the other "open with" and "new" functions.
This seems to be something going wrong in the DDE process because it crashes out the whole "win explorer" window too, but I just don't have enough OS knowledge to be sure.
is this bug orphaned?
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 7:15 pm
by crassius
Has this bug been abandoned? It's not a show stopper, but it would be nice if a new shellext.dll could be written so that the right-click on the context menu didn't crash out the whole explorer program.