explorer crash

[Moonnique]

I had an issue with using this, it made explorer crash when you right click an item in the start menu all programs menu.

[PhantomNimbi]

Same it happens when using StartIsBack++ without the XP Flyout style enabled.

[rikka0w0]

Hi all,

This is a known problem, and I have noticed this during the development of the pre-alpha version. It is not a compatibility problem with other software, the crashing is caused by thread-unsafe code injection (To change context menu appearance), but unfortunately, for now, I could not offer a better solution.

To achieve a crash-less solution (with thread-safe injection), we need to know how explorer.exe and other shell stuff works so that we can decide when and where to inject our code. But it is so hard find useful information about the internal of windows explorer and shell beyond shell extensions. So, if you guys know someone who is familiar with shell programming, please introduce him/her to me! I really need help.

Besides waiting for a fix, I think you can try out third-party themes (requires uxtheme) which includes a customized context menu appearance. There's also a vote on Reddit to ask Microsoft bring back this feature, the best outcome would be Microsoft adding back this option so we don't need to make tricky patches again.

[PhantomNimbi]

Thanks for the reply, tbh I am using it with custom themes. This is what brought back the custom context menu in Windows 10 1903 for me, lol.

As for shell programming, I believe there are a fair few people in http://virtualcustoms.net/ who might be able to help you.

[rikka0w0]

Hey guys,

I found a alternative solution to this problem, it does not give you a real classic context menu, but a very similar one:

I did this on Win10 1903, and this should also work on 1909, 1809, previous and future versions of Win10. __You need to install uxtheme patcher to make it work!__Download is here:
aerolite.zip
Switch to the Win10 default theme and replace the aerolite.msstyles in %windir%\Resources\Themes\aero. Ajdust the permission of %windir%\Resources\Themes\aero\VSCache, make Administrator own it and take full control of it, then delete whatever inside that folder. Finally, switch to aerolite theme and your explorer context menu should look like the system context menu. Adding my TaskbarContextMenuTweaker and the aeroglass8+ makes Win10 look even better!

This solution only gives you a similar look, it is still immersive menu. If you trying to add a menu background, this will not work!

Checkout:
https://gist.github.com/rikka0w0/971e247871154427d5e62c7b3a7ac1d4

[SyntheticDawn]

explorer tweaker becomes active on rightclicking a file or folder neither inside C: or inside a folder on the desktop rikka0w0 could you please make one for win32 too?

[Yaron10]

@rikka0w0,

Thank you for your work. 👍

I found a alternative solution to this problem, it does not give you a real classic context menu, but a very similar one

I'd like to make sure I understand it correctly.
If I install all the components in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsu2tkdB2TIR1fy7lp2HuQ9JeuVG713syzz9RGl2cV0/edit, should the alternative context-menu work properly?

[SyntheticDawn]

Startallback on windows 11 added a fix there is even a github remover for round edges :) all works in classic theme

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