Neither menu bar nor context menus respond to mouse or standard menu key combos
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:16 pm
SUMMARY: Neither menu bar nor context menus in Everything respond to mouse or standard menu-opening key combinations.
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I've done searches on this issue and found nothing. The problem has persisted for several months. Everything is the ONLY application that has this problem.
I can reinstall Everything and the menu functionality comes back for varying periods, but never for longer than a couple hours. Yesterday I reinstalled and the menus stopped working in less than a half hour after reinstallation.
Notably, it's not just mice clicks that have problems. For example, F10 activates the menu and you see the underlines on the first letter of the menu items. This much works. But if you press "F" for File after F10, nothing happens.
If, instead of F10, you press Alt+F for File or Alt+B for Bookmarks, Everything will show the tooltip in the bottom status bar, but otherwise, not respond at all. Likewise, you can click on, say, Help, and the tooltip "Contains help commands" shows on the bottom status bar.
Right-click context menu commands with the mouse do not work on files, nor does Alt+Enter bring up properties when you have selected a file. However, you can select files and press Enter on a file and the file will open, so these minimal window actions do work. BTW I have tried two different mice, to make sure it's not my new mouse. Needless to say, this is an odd issue.
I tried switching to NOT keeping everything.ini in the Appdata folder, but I don't think it helped. I could try that again, if necessary.
Can anyone figure out what's happening? Thank you!
Everything-1.4.1.1022.x64-Setup.exe
Windows 11 Home OS Build 22621.1265
DETAILED VERSION:
I've done searches on this issue and found nothing. The problem has persisted for several months. Everything is the ONLY application that has this problem.
I can reinstall Everything and the menu functionality comes back for varying periods, but never for longer than a couple hours. Yesterday I reinstalled and the menus stopped working in less than a half hour after reinstallation.
Notably, it's not just mice clicks that have problems. For example, F10 activates the menu and you see the underlines on the first letter of the menu items. This much works. But if you press "F" for File after F10, nothing happens.
If, instead of F10, you press Alt+F for File or Alt+B for Bookmarks, Everything will show the tooltip in the bottom status bar, but otherwise, not respond at all. Likewise, you can click on, say, Help, and the tooltip "Contains help commands" shows on the bottom status bar.
Right-click context menu commands with the mouse do not work on files, nor does Alt+Enter bring up properties when you have selected a file. However, you can select files and press Enter on a file and the file will open, so these minimal window actions do work. BTW I have tried two different mice, to make sure it's not my new mouse. Needless to say, this is an odd issue.
I tried switching to NOT keeping everything.ini in the Appdata folder, but I don't think it helped. I could try that again, if necessary.
Can anyone figure out what's happening? Thank you!
Everything-1.4.1.1022.x64-Setup.exe
Windows 11 Home OS Build 22621.1265