hi, i have lost the right click ability on all pages in IE7 (open in new tab a hand appears but does nothing happens, copy/paste/save etc nothing happens at all) but not in the menu or address bar in IE7. & some other right click feature like copy & paste in some but not all, other applications. i still have it on my desktop for example. i found a post on this site about windows registry (which im starting to think it might be after an exhaustive search) & on following that advice found that the link to what i believe to be the problem (context menu) or something similar is missing, this is what it said in the post;
How do i re-enable right click on desktop?
I have just accidently changed a setting in tweak xp to disable right click on desktop. i have tried to reenable it but i have had no look. please help
Check the registry settings for:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoViewContextMenu
Value should be 0
when i got too the 'explorer' part there was no 'NoViewContextMenu' it basically said;
(DEFAULT)
NO ACTIVE DESKTOP
NO DRIVE TYPE AUT....
NO PROPERTIES MY C....
NO SAVED SETTINGS
im wondering if this is the problem? i was tidying up the other day & i fear i may have deleted part of my registry somehow. :nervous:BIG OOPS!:dead: is there anyway to repair or reinstall just the registry from disk if this is the problem? i cant seem to find any other reason, but highly open to suggestions (its not addons related as ive opened IE without them enabled) or will i have to reinstall the whole of windows XP SP2 again? which bothers me due to knowing i will lose my last sytem restore to try to fix & an issue created earlier with printmaster gold 17.
Hoping like crazy someone can help me, i promise not to delete anything again! :cry: :suprised: :nervous:
all the best, Jo
How do i re-enable right click on desktop?
I have just accidently changed a setting in tweak xp to disable right click on desktop. i have tried to reenable it but i have had no look. please help
Check the registry settings for:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoViewContextMenu
Value should be 0
when i got too the 'explorer' part there was no 'NoViewContextMenu' it basically said;
(DEFAULT)
NO ACTIVE DESKTOP
NO DRIVE TYPE AUT....
NO PROPERTIES MY C....
NO SAVED SETTINGS
im wondering if this is the problem? i was tidying up the other day & i fear i may have deleted part of my registry somehow. :nervous:BIG OOPS!:dead: is there anyway to repair or reinstall just the registry from disk if this is the problem? i cant seem to find any other reason, but highly open to suggestions (its not addons related as ive opened IE without them enabled) or will i have to reinstall the whole of windows XP SP2 again? which bothers me due to knowing i will lose my last sytem restore to try to fix & an issue created earlier with printmaster gold 17.
Hoping like crazy someone can help me, i promise not to delete anything again! :cry: :suprised: :nervous:
all the best, Jo
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