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Posted on May 4, 2023June 8, 2023

Restore the legacy file context menu in Windows 11

Sometimes, progress for progress’s sake is just annoyance.

Such as the new context menu for Windows 11. You know what I’m talking about.

If you select Show more options, you’ll see the legacy menu that we know and love.  For those of us that still want to be able to get to that menu with a single click, here’s a reg hack to revert Explorer.exe… [ Continue reading ]

Posted on September 8, 2022January 19, 2024

Resetting a Surface Device from media when your device is toast

Sometimes, our instructions are lacking. Today, I needed to recover my Surface Book 2 device. I thought, easy—I’ll just use the Reset PC option inside the Control Panel.

After the initial reset (using the delete my files option), Windows Explorer wouldn’t launch.… [ Continue reading ]

Posted on April 6, 2022April 8, 2022

Updating the default mail/mailto handler in Windows 11

After getting my new Windows 11 device out of the box, I installed the Microsoft 365 apps suite and was off to the races.  Or so I thought.

It would appear that Outlook didn’t register itself as a the default mail protocol handler (mailto: hyperlinks), so every time I click on a mail link, I get prompted to configure Windows Mail.… [ Continue reading ]

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