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NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 25 Jun 2026 18:50
by TedL1972
I had problems with certain items showing up on both the Windows Explorer and XYPlorer right-click context menu after installing latest update. For this reason I played around with various settings and had to use also ShellExView to fix things. One problem that I can't resolve still is having the "New" as in NewItem showing up on both the XYPlorer and Windows Explorer right-click context menu.

I tried many different fixes and nothing worked. I use this almost daily to create new Word Docuements and Excel documents. I do have these two properly in the NewItems folder accessible through <xydta> yet the "NewItems" is still not showing up.

Genreral | Menus, Mous, Usability | File list - doesn't provide any customization possibility.

I can access NewItems via Edit and NewItems, that is available and works fine but I really would like to have back the same in the right-click context menu.

Please let me know if there is a fix for this.

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 26 Jun 2026 09:37
by admin
Does it work with a fresh instance? (Run fresh; through the address bar)

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 26 Jun 2026 19:22
by TedL1972
Yes the refresh instance provides NewItems with the right click.

Since I have a catalog set up, lots of bookmarks, etc. is there a way to clone this configuration into the [fresh] instance?

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 27 Jun 2026 07:28
by admin
I'd rather investigate why it's missing from your setup. Could you show a screenshot of the menu where it's missing?

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 05 Jul 2026 20:43
by TedL1972
OK, I made a screen shot of both context menus and they are attached here.

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 06 Jul 2026 08:41
by admin
These are context menus of list items. The "New Items..." command has never been in those. You have to right-click the list's white space to get the context menu featuring "New Items...".

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 07 Jul 2026 04:24
by TedL1972
These are coming up by right clicking the empty white space not on the list items. When I right click on the actual list items the context menu (Windows Explorer) is longer than the one I have posted. The "NewItems" have always worked and they still work on the fresh instance that you had me try before. They just don't show on the one I have configured currently.

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 07 Jul 2026 08:50
by admin
Maybe you enabled Full Row Select in the list. Because those are definitely not context menus for white space.

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 08 Jul 2026 04:49
by TedL1972
I did have Full Row Select. After your message I unselected it, logged out and logged back in but nothing changed.

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 08 Jul 2026 09:42
by admin
Can you show a screenshot of your file list with one file selected?

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 18 Jul 2026 06:29
by TedL1972
Yes, here it is.

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 18 Jul 2026 23:52
by admin
Untick Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Usability | Context Menus | Native context menu

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 20 Jul 2026 20:43
by TedL1972
Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Usability | Context Menus | Native context menu
- was already unticked.

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 21 Jul 2026 13:03
by admin
Where are the right-clicked files located (full path)?

Re: NewItems disappeared from context menu

Posted: 21 Jul 2026 20:10
by TedL1972
Full path:

C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\XYplorer64\NewItems