Vista Tutorial - Context menu item problem in Vista

Installing new apps in Vista RTM, I have noticed a couple of instances
so far where there is a problem with entries not be added to the
(right-click) context menu in cases where they were always automatically
added for me in Windows XP.

One such app is ImgBurn, which always had a "Burn image with ImgBurn"
(or somesuch) context menu entry for selection when I right-clicked on
an image file.

The second such app is IZarc, which would put several entries (that
could be individually chosen from the program's options\configuration
settings) in the context menu. On my box running Vista Business RTM, I
got the items to display by deselecting the option to show the entries
in a submenu. But on my box running Vista Ultimate RTM, I cannot get
them to show at all.

Does anyone know what's going on here? Is this a known issue with Vista,
or an issue with the specific apps?

"Daze N. Knights" <Daze@microchip.com> wrote in message
news:eK9pVV4MHHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Installing new apps in Vista RTM, I have noticed a couple of instances so
> far where there is a problem with entries not be added to the
> (right-click) context menu in cases where they were always automatically
> added for me in Windows XP.
>
> One such app is ImgBurn, which always had a "Burn image with ImgBurn" (or
> somesuch) context menu entry for selection when I right-clicked on an
> image file.
>
> The second such app is IZarc, which would put several entries (that could
> be individually chosen from the program's options\configuration settings)
> in the context menu. On my box running Vista Business RTM, I got the items
> to display by deselecting the option to show the entries in a submenu. But
> on my box running Vista Ultimate RTM, I cannot get them to show at all.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on here? Is this a known issue with Vista,
> or an issue with the specific apps?



Are you using Vista 64-bit?

ss.

Nope. 32.

Synapse Syndrome wrote:
> "Daze N. Knights" <Daze@microchip.com> wrote in message
> news:eK9pVV4MHHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Installing new apps in Vista RTM, I have noticed a couple of instances
>> so far where there is a problem with entries not be added to the
>> (right-click) context menu in cases where they were always
>> automatically added for me in Windows XP.
>>
>> One such app is ImgBurn, which always had a "Burn image with ImgBurn"
>> (or somesuch) context menu entry for selection when I right-clicked on
>> an image file.
>>
>> The second such app is IZarc, which would put several entries (that
>> could be individually chosen from the program's options\configuration
>> settings) in the context menu. On my box running Vista Business RTM, I
>> got the items to display by deselecting the option to show the entries
>> in a submenu. But on my box running Vista Ultimate RTM, I cannot get
>> them to show at all.
>>
>> Does anyone know what's going on here? Is this a known issue with
>> Vista, or an issue with the specific apps?
>
>
>
> Are you using Vista 64-bit?
>
> ss.

Just came across a third app that fails to put entries in the
right-click context menu during installation: OpenExpert. And this
particular app *depends* on having context menu entries for its
functionality.

Daze N. Knights wrote:
>
> Nope. 32.
>
> Synapse Syndrome wrote:
>> "Daze N. Knights" <Daze@microchip.com> wrote in message
>> news:eK9pVV4MHHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Installing new apps in Vista RTM, I have noticed a couple of
>>> instances so far where there is a problem with entries not be added
>>> to the (right-click) context menu in cases where they were always
>>> automatically added for me in Windows XP.
>>>
>>> One such app is ImgBurn, which always had a "Burn image with ImgBurn"
>>> (or somesuch) context menu entry for selection when I right-clicked
>>> on an image file.
>>>
>>> The second such app is IZarc, which would put several entries (that
>>> could be individually chosen from the program's options\configuration
>>> settings) in the context menu. On my box running Vista Business RTM,
>>> I got the items to display by deselecting the option to show the
>>> entries in a submenu. But on my box running Vista Ultimate RTM, I
>>> cannot get them to show at all.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what's going on here? Is this a known issue with
>>> Vista, or an issue with the specific apps?
>>
>>
>>
>> Are you using Vista 64-bit?
>>
>> ss.