Vista - context menu on desktop

I seem to have lost the ability to right click on my desktop and bring up the
context menu. It is ok when I right click on file names and such just the
desktop seems to be affected. Anyone have any ideas? thanks in advance

Try this, I don't guarantee but it's a possible solution:

1) Make sure you haven't set "NoViewContextMenu" policy to "enabled in
Policies (it's set thru GP/GPOedit or other computer management consoles).
BTW, make sure you're an Adminsitrator & nobody is lurking around your
machine playing with Policies.

2) Run Regedit and navigate to the keys shown here. If you have the
"NoViewContextMenu" policy set you can just right click on it and delete it
or modify the data value to '0'

User Key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer]
System Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer]
Name: NoViewContextMenu
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

It should be "0" (disabled) so context menu does show.

If this doesn't help, wait for more responses.

Stan Starinski, MSEE.

Niether one of those keys show up in regedit


"Stan Starinski" wrote:

Actually I figured this out. I was having conflicts between my wallpaper
manager and my desktop settings. All is well now thanks for the guidance

"Stan Starinski" wrote: