Monday, May 17, 2010

dealing with broken jumplists in Windows 7

On one of my machines, the jump list for Remote Desktop was not working. It worked in all other prorgrams, but not Remote Desktop. After some research (primarily this page:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/58c12e12-09cf-4eba-9890-270deb60e289

I found that it was third party shell extensions that were the cause. Specifically, it was a shell extension called "CopyPathContextMenu" that seemed to have been created by ibackup.com. Once I removed that, my Remote Desktop jump list started working normally.

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