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General / Re: PDF-ShellTools in Windows 11 Home - context menu

« Last post by P. Allan on September 26, 2026, 11:10:12 AM »

Problem solved - but not quite explained.

I used nirsoft ShellExView and saw, that the PDFST was disabled. Enabled it and everything is OK.

But why disabled?

I removed PathCopyCopy earlier because of the above mentioned problem. Now I reinstalled it.

In ShellExView it showed up - but was disabled. Enabled it like with PDFST.

Both are now active in the shell (contextmenu).

Thanks for Your always quick and kind help.

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General / Re: PDF-ShellTools in Windows 11 Home - context menu

« Last post by P. Allan on September 26, 2026, 10:01:30 AM »

Hi again

Indeed it is in the "old" menu it is missing. I have never used other in W11.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling PDFST,  re-activated the legacy menu, manually regsvr32 of the PDST-dll's (lots of restarts of the PC).

I have the same experience with another - and slightly older - shell app, PathCopyCopy. There was an advice to install it "for me only". And when this not was en option in the installer, move the content of the app folder to a folder under "C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Programs" and register the dll's manually. Sounded like a rather doubtful advice, and it didn't work.

Can't get them to show up.

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General / Re: PDF-ShellTools in Windows 11 Home - context menu

« Last post by RTT on September 26, 2026, 03:29:33 AM »

The shell context menu in Windows 11 uses a compact design and you need to click its "show more options" item to show the legacy context menu, where the PDF-ShellTools item will show (to show the legacy context menu directly use the Shift+Righ-click shortcut).

Please confirm the missing PDFST context menu is indeed in the legacy menu.

It is missing also from a file open dialog from a 32-bit program, e.g. from the PDF-ShellTools Reader file open dialog?

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General / Re: PDF-ShellTools in Windows 11 Home - context menu

« Last post by P. Allan on September 25, 2026, 09:30:03 PM »

Hi Rui

The setting of the default pdf app (for double click, "Open with" item and so on (always) work.

Setting the internal PDFST-reader also does that. But the Shell-Tools doesn't show up in the context menu.

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General / Re: PDF-ShellTools in Windows 11 Home - context menu

« Last post by RTT on September 25, 2026, 03:32:44 AM »

What is you current system default PDF app?
Does the problem gets fixed if you set it to the PDF-ShellTools Reader?

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General / PDF-ShellTools in Windows 11 Home - context menu

« Last post by P. Allan on September 24, 2026, 12:01:37 PM »

I don't know when it happened but the version 3.4.2.0 has vanished form the explorer context menu. I have tried restarting the explorer, reinstalling the PDFST - but it didn't help. (The settings in the manager is also in place.)

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General / Re: Backing up my current configuration of PDFE

« Last post by RTT on August 02, 2026, 03:49:05 AM »

You only need to use the settings backup/restore functionality under the preferences tool. No need to manually backup any folder.

That "questionalable folder" is related to Windows functionality. Google Search AI says it is a registry path segment used inside the Windows Registry's CloudStore hive (under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore). Windows uses this database to cache application display names, publisher info, icon details, and last-launch timestamps for installed programs.

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General / Backing up my current configuration of PDFE

« Last post by puckman on August 01, 2026, 08:27:08 PM »

Hi Rui
Thanks for helping me out earlier this month. Restoring my PDF library and my preferred PDFE configuration is still undergoing growing pains.  Moving forward, I am resolved to not only back up my PDF files but the configuration of PDFE as well.
 
Can you verify or comment on my backup strategy below?
1. I have my PDF files that I am working on incrementally on a seperate scratch disk that I will back up incrementally as I change their properties.
2. I found two PDFE folders on my system which I assume contains the configuration files etc. One folder is in  C:\Program Files (x86); another is in C:\Users\[myprofile]\AppData\Roaming.
3. I found a questionalable folder elsewhere on my system drive C:\Users\[myprofile]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\CloudStore\{94b5dd38-99e0-43c7-bdd5-1c548f3503ff}\windows.data.apps.appmetadata\appmetadatalist\pdf explorer_is1.

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General / Re: Maye use AI for untranslated langs

« Last post by RTT on February 05, 2026, 03:07:13 AM »

Should work, but even this must be done by someone that understand the lang. There is always some technicalities, not specifically grammar or context, that can only be fixed by someone that understand what is written.

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General / Maye use AI for untranslated langs

« Last post by testthepdf on February 03, 2026, 08:12:55 AM »

Ok it's not perfect, but surely, it's a start till a native speaker decides to do the work.