KB5127936 and changes to the Windows 11 context menu.
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With the Windows 11 optional preview update KB5127936 (OS Builds 26300.9818 and 26200.9818), Microsoft has overhauled the File Explorer right-click context menu, introducing direct control over app extensions.
Hopefully this will let Notepad++ ditch its current method of using an internal MSIX sparse file to apply itself to the right click context menu. Has been a pain to implement in a corporate environment with a mix of per user installs and machine targeted installs and Citrix sessions, all of which I blame MS for previously restricting access to the context menu on Win11.
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Hopefully this will let Notepad++ ditch its current method
Until that patch has effectively 100% deployment, Notepad++ should not change its implementation, otherwise it breaks something that currently works for anyone who hasn’t applied that fix.
(If there’s a way to make the two methods coexist peacefully, or if there’s a way the installer can test the version and use the appropriate alternative, then that’s great. But if not, then breaking a feature to support bleeding edge is a bad idea)
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