No items show in Windows Explorer Right-Click Context Menu

[BishopDecks]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.95.1

Installation method

GitHub

Area(s) with issue?

General

Steps to reproduce

No items showing in right click context menus. I use Image Resizer and PowerRename quite a bit. Great utilities!
Recently they have stopped showing in the right click context menu of windows file explorer.
I tried:

• Opening extended context by holding shift and right clicking, no joy.
• Uninstalling/Reinstalling PowerToys, including scrubbing files and registry entries, no joy.
• Rebooting several times, no joy.

Just can't get the context menu items to show anymore.
Any hints would be greatly appreciated. :-)

✔️ Expected Behavior

Right click context menu in windows explorer to show PowerToys options to resize or rename files.

❌ Actual Behavior

Context menu does not show the item in the menu. Even tried extended context menu by holding shift.

Additional Information

PowerToysReport_2025-11-14-10-11-15.zip

Created a bug report if that will help.

Other Software

No response

[MaxPSN]

I have this issue too. This happens on all my PCs along with color picker not showing any valves on hover.

Recently I opened up a laptop I rare use and updated the app from 0.86 to the latest. The PowerToys related context menus are also gone from said laptop.
Could be an intended behavior to make it doesn't work on non-win11 context menu to force people to upgrade.

[ReginaldTang]

Try reinstalling powertoys. it fixed for me after reinstalling powertoys.

[Hakoyu]

I have the same issue: the right-click menu does not show any PowerToys items (e.g., rename, locksmith, ...).
I used ContextMenuManager to check and confirmed that the registry has the context menu entries set, but no matter how I configure it, they do not display correctly.
It seems that after a certain version, the context menu items stopped appearing.

[BishopDecks]

I ended up downgrading to v-0.93 and I am good to go again. I also turned off automatic upgrades for now.
I really have become dependent on the PowerRename and ImageResizer :-)

[Hakoyu]

Oh, I'll try it too

[Hakoyu]

I succeeded, v0.93 can indeed display the context menu properly, thank you.

[BishopDecks]

You are welcome. Glad I could help. :-)

[CloudyEagle]

It seems to exit so long time. What happened!!??
#41595

[ReginaldTang]

Try reinstalling powertoys. It fixed for me.

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