Thread 106288099

"esoteric windowsism" you could say. here i go. my cat sometimes walks on my mouse and keyboard and will somehow open strange right click menus that are different than the normal desktop right click menu as shown in pic related. i have never thought about screenshotting it when it happens but i will remember next time, unfortunately its quite rare. there are 2-3 other types of menus my cat will open on the desktop that are different than the standard one. does anyone know anything about this? google doesnt return any results.

>>106288099 (OP)
Probably shift, alt, control or a combination of those

>>106288099 (OP)
>anon finally learned about "extended" context menu options
Been around since Windows 2000. Hold down Shift while right-clicking.

>>106288099 (OP)
The menu in your picture always opens for me if I right-click on the desktop.

>>106288576
I'd swear it was there in 98 and possibly 95

There's this thing where windows "links" eg filename.html files and filename_files folders, that are in the same folder, so both go away when you delete either of them. You typically get these pairs when you "save" a webpage from a browser. I thought it was some ridiculous black magic feature beyond just associating the filenames for the longest time.

windows supports symlinks
windows supports mounting volumes into directory entries
there are controls not touched since winnt 3.51 days
hdr support is broken
.net up to latest 4.x is a crucial system component, newer versions are just exe and dll files

>>106288099 (OP)
waoh, smart cat!

>>106288099 (OP)
microsoft is actually run by cats, so it makes sense that there would be features only cats can access

>>106288099 (OP)
did you guys know that the windows desktop is literally a file explorer window with a bunch of stuff hidden/disabled that has the desktop folder open. that's why it has the same context menu.

>>106289061
In 9x (though Me might have been different, since a LOT of good stuff from Windows 2000 was backported to it), you had to provide your context menu as a proper shell extension DLL to do it. As it's now code, and you can do whatever you like: check the state of the modifier keys at menu popup, and report or not report your items to the shell based on that.
However, starting with Windows 2000, you could do it with simple, static HKCR shell action registration.

>>106289937
I thought everyone knew this.
Hell, there were tools in the early days of NewShell to on-the-fly re-enable the parts of the desktop LISTVIEW control that Explorer.exe disabled.

The only menu I could think of this way is dragging a file with right-click.

>>106289885
>windows supports mounting volumes into directory entries
This is, indeed, the best way of "encrypting a folder" in Windows:
>create a vhd
>bitlocker it with password
>mount vhd it to C:\Users\User\Documents\Encrypted

>>106290060
I'm VERY familiar with that menu, as I came from OS/2, where icon drags were done with the right mouse button by default.
It took me YEARS to train myself out of that. I was using Vista before I stopped seeing it at least once a day.

A little-known fact is that you can set the Win32 subsystem to be case-sensitive wrt filenames with a simple registry tweak.
You DON'T want to do this (tons of shit breaks), but it can be done.

Due to legacy reasons, you still can't name a file or folder 'con' or 'nul' in Windows, among some other names.

>>106290235
Of course you can. Only the Win32 layer doesn't like it - and there are a half-dozen ways around it.

>>106290231
>regedits
I'm amazed how many people don't know this.
Rufus, Ventoy and the like aren't magic: they're using Microsoft-implemented and documented knobs in the Windows Setup program - you can DIY with reg.exe if you wish.

Microsoft uses "\" instead of "/" as a way to pretend early DOS was not a cheap copy from another OS popular at the time.
His mother was having an affair with one IBM director and convinced him that his son had a product ready to ship in their new computers. However, it was not true, so Gates approached a guy who had reverse-engineered an OS using the manual from said OS. Gates offered to pay something between 50k and 100k for the program (there are some disputes about the actual value) and switch a few things just to make it different enough from the original in order to avoid getting sued.
This pretty much explains why Windows is so bad and will always be. Microsoft is a company built on deception and lack of professionalism.

>>106290300
To be fair, BypassNRO is also a registry entry, just as easily reconfigured, and look how spastic /g/ (and Reddit, and YouTube) went when they got wind that their friendly batch file that set it might be removed.

>>106289885
>.net up to latest 4.x
.NET Foundation*
which I wish they'd kill, but that would imply M$ would actually ship functioning software to their customers.
hell, they still ship with NTLM support despite it being known to be broken and there are better schemes like PAKE

>>106288621
>different than the normal desktop right click menu as shown in pic related
lrn2English

>>106290310
Fun fact.
Not a single version of Windows was ready for release at their launch. Even the versions who were just a facelift presented a plethora of issues until months later.

>>106290310
This, like most things /g/ believes, is utter bullshit.
What really happened is that neither CP/M nor DOS 1.0 supported subdirectories, and both took their inspiration from TOPS-10, which used forward slashes for command-line switches.
So when subdirectories came along with DOS 2.0, and with forward slashes taken, they took the path separator from another DEC operating system - VMS.

>>106290357
Are you one of those who believe Gates coded DOS?

Is this whole thread fucking AI bots talking to each other? Am I going insane?

>>106290387
Nobody thinks Gates coded DOS, and the fact that it has nothing to do with what I said indicates you're just seething about your bullshit being called.

>>106290395
Nah, it just happens that a lot of people here spend too much time "talking" to AI to the point where they write like it.
Funny how no one mentions that using AI makes your personality extremely dull.
>>106290416
All kike worshippers will get the rope.

>>106290445
>im wrong
>start chanting my magic words as a defense
Pa-fucking-thetic.

Those are cat-only menus, those are not meant for you, cease your investigation

>>106290395
yes.

>>106290395
>anything interesting, informative or freely shared must be ai
Imagine being this mindbroken by the AIpocalypse.

>>106289131
>it's real
what the fuck

>>106289131
>>106290965
Yes, it's called "Connected Files" internally - it's for situations where a file and a folder "belong" to each other, so it's pointless at best, destructive at worst, to manipulate them individually.
I'm not a big fan of it however, and it does have an off switch in Folder Properties somewhere - but being an AdVaNcEd UsEr, I just set HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer!NoFileFolderConnection=dword:1

The taskbar is just another window. If you click on an empty part of it and then press alt+space you get to see its window menu. Might not work in win11 anymore.

Click on the desktop and press alt+f4, you get the ancient shutdown dialog

If you right click on the taskbar while holding ctrl and shift, there is an additional item in the context menu to safely quit the explorer shell

Single click on an applications icon in its title bar and you get the window menu, double click the icon to close the window

if you drag and drop with a right click in explorer, you get a menu in which you can choose whether you want to copy or move the selected files

>>106290187
why did you do that to yourself

>>106288099 (OP)
Pressing shift while clicking shows some hidden options like PowerShell.
Then there is right click and drag that shows a different menu.
If you right click a window, uh, the bar at the top? You get options for minimize, close, etc.
And if you right click the windows logo in the task bar you get another menu, very useful. Win + X.

ctrl+alt+esc starts the task manager
Win+L locks the pc
Win+Printsc saves a screenshot in the images/screenshots folder

>>106289937
>>106290012
its also why terminating explorer.exe in task manager kills your desktop entirely.

>>106292981
>ctrl+alt+esc starts the task manager
Ctrl + Shift + Esc.
Ctrl + Alt + Esc switches active windows a la Alt + Tab, but without the selection window.

>>106292590
>Might not work in win11 anymore.
Hell, it hasn't worked since IESHLUPD if I recall.
Providing a system menu for a non-overlapped window is always a bug.

On Windows, pretty much everything is a "service". This includes drivers.
It's just that, since NT 4.0, the Services control panel (and later, MMC) specifically filters out drivers, as to not confuse retards and give them another avenue to break their systems.
This is why you can type things like "net start ntfs" (but of course, you'll be told "That service has already been started").

>>106290342
I thought it was well known Microsoft uses end users as beta testers. They do this shit with xboxes as well.