Release history

General

• Improvement Updated the illustrations in the getting started wizard.
• Fix Clean-up of classic context menu handler registry key on uninstall.

Context Menu+

• Improvement Added icons to more classic context menu items.
• Improvement Better support for different jump menus including for Chrome.
• Fix Sometimes clicking items in the taskbar app jump list would open the wrong file. Thanks David.
• Fix No longer showing Window+ related commands on excluded apps, such as File Explorer and Task Manager taskbar app context menus.

Icon+

• Fix Setting icon on shortcuts now also updates the shortcut icon. Thanks Jan.

Navigation+

• New Recently used folders are now available in Explorer and Open/Save dialogs. Thanks Nico.

New++

• New Now support for multiple templates collections, each with their own location, name, icon and hotkey chord.

People+

• New New option to control whether people face scanning should download cloud placeholder files.

Window+

• New Confirm on close feature. Per application/program setting to help avoid closing the wrong window/app.
• Improvement Colored window borders are now better at following the window on restore, maximize and snapping.

General

• Improvement The Microsoft Store version now supports checking for updates. Thanks Marie.
• Fix The feature carousel on the welcome page now shows all 14 major feature areas.
• Fix Existing Adobe Photoshop when using file open dialogs via Adobe UXP Developer Tools plugins no longer causes Photoshop to crash and keeps the context menu working. Thanks Nico for the extra work on this.

Context Menu+

• Improvement Now possible to rename Commands+ entries. Thanks David.
• Improvement Taskbar App: Added context menu to Pinned and Recent jumplist items.
• Improvement Right clicking on taskbar app Open app now opens the context menu instead of launching the app.

Media+

• Improvement Media hotkeys now work also within applications that are running as admin.

Window+

• New Window+ can now be enabled to work for applications that are running as admin.
• Improvement Dragging a left/right docked window will now undock the window.
• Fix Removed square corners from snapped windows.
• Fix Colored border would sometimes stay on top even if app windows were in the background.

Commands+

• New Optional sound effect on launching a command (default on).

Context Menu+

• Improvement Taskbar apps: Added Jump list in the builder and with it a setting to configure the number of items in the jump list. Note not all applications respect this such as Word. Thanks David.
• Improvement Taskbar apps: Context menu now stays open while pinning/unpinning items on the Jump list. Thanks David.
• Fix Taskbar apps: Now possible to remove Settings, Priority and Color Window+ context menu items. Thanks David.
• Fix "Resize with Image Resizer" from PowerToys could not be moved on the context menu.
• Fix Adobe Photoshop no longer crashes on exit. Thanks Nico.
• Fix Dragging items from Quick Pins to somewhere else now copies a reference to the Quick Pin item. Thanks Jan.

Media+

• New Optional sound effect on mute and unmute (default on).

New++

• New Optional sound effect on creating from template (default off) and when creating a new folder from shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+N).

Rate+

• New Optional sound effect on rating (default on).

Tag+

• New Optional sound effect on tagging (default on).

Window+

• New Optional sound effect on pinning/unpining a window (default on).
• Fix Window color is now better reflected on the taskbar app item for active and non-active windows.

General

• Improvement Optional crash diagnostics helping report and make the plus pack support even more different setups.
• Fix Updated the broken Discord Invite link. Thanks David.

Context Menu+

• New Freely add quick pin- items and submenus directly to any of the context menus. Thanks Jan.
• New Add your own commands to the Start button, Taskbar Background, Taskbar app and Taskbar clock context menus. Thanks David.
• Improvement Added loading feedback while loading context menu extensions.
• Improvement Renamed "Show Classic Menu" to "Show Window menu" in the Taskbar app context menu.
• Improvement Minor tweaks.
• Fix NanaZip and some other programs did not appear consistently in the builder. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Quick Pins wasn't always using the correct icons. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Taskbar clock context menu is now customizable.
• Fix Run as Administrator now shows up correctly. Thanks David.

New++

• Fix Enter rename mode in Open/Save dialog is now possible.

Window+

• Improvement Customized borders are now a little brighter for active windows.

General

• New Now easier to share feedback and report issues via the new feedback form.
• New Command line (CLI) support via ppp.exe for file metadata actions, including info, tag, rate, comment.
• New "Try these first" for tagging, rating and search on the Welcome page.
• Improvement Further clarified that all updates are included in the pricing. Thanks Peter.
• Improvement You can now select what settings to import and import has support for restoring settings on another device that uses different paths. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Installer now includes a notice about black screen during upgrade. Thanks David.
• Fix Installer checks whether a copy is in progress. Thanks David.
• Fix Additional installer robustness work.
• Fix License check no longer flashes when opening the settings. Thanks Jan.

Commands+

• Fix $all_selected_paths wasn't returning all selected paths. Thanks Nico.

Context Menu+

• Fix Unable to move Icon context menu to main menu. Thanks David.
• Fix Missing Run as Administrator option on the program context menus. Thanks David.

Navigation+

• New Search filters now has a first-run discovery experience.

People+

• Improvement Further improved face recognition and reduction of false positives.

Window+

• Improvement More border animation settings.
• Improvement Taskbar indicators are positioned to replace existing for running and active window indicators.

General

• Fix Now ignoring the deprecated File Organizer disabled setting. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Install upgrade checks. Thanks David.
• Fix Some games were losing focus while gaming full-screen. Thanks Thomas.

Commands+

• New Quickly convert your PowerPoint slides to images.

Context Menu+

• New Run with PowerShell command applicable to .ps1 is now in the builder and included in the default layouts beneath Open. It will detect the correct PowerShell version and also show a prompt for parameters.
• New Support adding a hotkey to any command.
• Improvement Added confirmation dialog for "Reset this menu" and a few other little UI tweaks.
• Fix Tooltips in the taskbar are now better positioned above the mouse pointer. Thanks David.
• Fix Icons for Sort and Group by.
• Improvement Added quick access pin/unpin/remove commands.
• Fix The customized context menu wouldn't show correctly on all monitors. Thanks David.
• Fix Local machine taskbar context menu would show when right clicking in RDP or HyperV full screen.
• Fix Added hotkey hints for Undo, Redo, Large icons, Medium icons, Small icons, Copy as path, Open, Properties and the clipboard band items.
• Quick browse: Fix: Icons used now better match the actual files and folders. Thanks Jan.
• Quick browse: Fix: Folders with customized icons were not shown.

Icon+

• New More controls for icon packs. Thanks Jan.
• Improvement Updated the included Windows 11 - Files and folders icon pack.
• Improvement Icon pack folder's icon is now used in the icon pack related submenus.
• Fix Hidden .ico files are no longer shown in the icon packs. Thanks Jan.

Navigation+

• Improvement Removed Customize File Organizer from Search filters context menu.
• Fix The correct context menu is more consistently shown on right click in Explorer's left navigation.

New++

• New Now you can create shortcuts similar to regular New but with New++'s variable support.
• Improvement Shortcuts in template folders are now updated if they are shortcuts to items within the template folder.

Organize Folder

• New Organize music with customizable pattern.
• New Menu entry that links directly to "Customize Organize folder...".

Window+

• New Quickly tell windows apart with custom window borders and taskbar overlays.

General

• Fix Trial banner could incorrectly show. Thanks Jan.

Context Menu+

• New Maximum menu width. Thanks David.
• New New hotkey text color setting.
• New Lock option added to the "Shut down or sign out" submenu in the Start context menu. Thanks Jan.
• Improvement Added "Pin to Quick Access" command. Thanks David.
• Improvement Added hotkey hints to the Start context menu entries.
• Improvement Extensions that have been crashing more than 3 times are excluded by default. The Excluded context menu handlers list is shown under Context Menu+.
• Fix Some items under the "New" submenu had missing icons.
• Fix Context menu could be slow when right clicking Explorer in the taskbar. Thanks David.
• Fix Sometimes right clicking the Recycle bin would have the "Empty Recycle bin" disabled.
• Fix Renamed and removed "Show more options" and "Show full list". Thanks David.
• Fix Builder inconsistency issues. Thanks David.
• Fix Cloud drive items now only have 1 Share icon. Thanks David.

Icon+

• New When used with Context Menu+ you can now point to an Icon Location. Thanks Jan.
• New Now including a "Windows 11 - Files and folders" and "Chinese Zodiac" icon sets. Thanks Marie and Philip.
• Fix Sometimes Icon was missing from the Drive context menu. Thanks David.

Navigation+

• New Quick pins now have its own area in the Explorer/Open/Save navigation. Thanks Marie.
• Improvement You can now set your collapse/expand preference for Quick pins and Search filters. Thanks Marie.
• Improvement "Quick pins" is now also available in the "Open File Explorer to" setting.
• Improvement New setting that enables renaming of Search filters and Quick pins entries.
• Improvement. Taskbar applications: Pin/Unpin and Path are now shown on hover. Thanks David.

New++

• Fix The Ctrl+Alt+N list of templates was missing several entries.
• Fix New++ would crash in the very old open/save dialogs. Thanks David.

Rate+

• Improvement Tag hotkeys are shown in the context menu with Context Menu+.

Tag+

• Improvement You can now control how many tags are shown in the context menu.
• Improvement Tag hotkeys are shown in the context menu with Context Menu+.
• Fix Icons in Tag Manager are now less pixelated.

General

• Improvement System tray menu now uses the same font settings as the Context Menu+.
• Fix The system tray is now more responsive. Thanks David.
• Fix The update download progress dialog now shows correctly in a remote desktop session. Thanks Jan.

Comment+

• Improvement Now you can enter markdown formatting directly in and it gets converted to rich text in the editor and still gets saved as markdown format.
• Fix The "Everything" fast search tool no longer crashes when opened from the system tray. Thanks Nico.

Context Menu+

• New Support for replacing Open/Save context menus. Thanks Nico.
• New Additional commands are now available in the builder, including "Show classic menu". Thanks Jan.
• Improvement Renamed "Show more actions" to "More" and "Show more options" to "Show classic menu". Thanks David and Jan.
• Improvement Menus now displays even faster than before across folders, files, backgrounds, and in the Open/Save dialogs.
• Improvement A horizontal margin of 0 and vertical margin of 0 now further reduces the spacing between icon text and menu items. Thanks David.
• Improvement Changed default font to Segoe UI Variable and changed default spacing.
• Improvement Submenu previews are now by default collapsed.
• Improvement Taskbar: Added icons for Task Manager and Taskbar settings.
• Improvement Start menu context menu now has icons for each of the main items.
• Improvement Better handling of newly installed context menu packages including updated logic for icon resolution.
• Improvement Better logic for determining the icon of classic context menu handlers, including for instance the NVIDIA Control Panel.
• Fix Less flicker when right clicking taskbar application items.

Icon+

• New Rounded drop-shadows for image thumbnails.
• New When used with Context Menu+ you can now add folder groups of icons.
• Fix Folder customization desktop.ini and related icon wasn't always hidden.

Media+

• New New setting to show mic on status in the system tray. The default is on.
• Fix On screen display play/pause/skip/mic buttons now match the colors of the Windows volume OSD.

Navigation+

• Improvement Icons in Search filters are now less pixelated. This also makes several of the built-in set of icons look better at the smaller resolutions.

General

• New A few extra colorful "folder with file" icons, find them under the installation directory\Content\Icons.
• New New Diagnostics section under Advanced which makes it possible to collect anonymized data to help with any troubleshooting. Thanks Nico.
• Improvement Updated images in the Microsoft Store listing. Thanks Marie.
• Improvement Installer checks if there are AllowAllTrustedApps and BlockNonAdminUserInstall group policies and in which case it will fallback to only enable the classic context menu handlers.

Commands+

• Improvement Creating a command now scrolls the relevant settings into view.
• Fix The icon of the .exe is now used by default when using Browse to find the program. Thanks David.

Comment+

• New New setting to show "Comment" in the classic context menu.

Context Menu+

• Fix Context menu extensions that have been disabled under modern/classic context menu configuration no longer show on the actual context menu. Thanks David.
• Fix Icons missing from the "Icon" context menu items. Thanks Jan.
• Fix "Icon" submenu text was sometimes drawn with a disabled color. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Addressed warnings that were in the 2 built-in base layouts.
• Fix The shut down and sign out actions on the taskbar start context menu now works. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Start menu context menu now dismisses the start menu on right click.
• Fix Unable to move "Icon" from "Show more actions" to main menu. Thanks David.

Icon+

• New New setting to show "Icon" in the classic context menu.

Organize Folder

• New New setting to show "Organize folder" in the classic context menu.

General

• Fix Installer upgrade fixes. Thank you David and Jan.

General

• Improvement Settings app now looks more like the Windows Settings app. Thanks Allan, David, and Jan.

Context Menu+

• New Rounded corners and drop shadow are now shown on virtual machine and remote desktop session. There is also a new option to also blur background. Blurred background is turned off by default as it visibly slows down the context menu. Thanks Jan.
• Improvement New header text color setting to help customize Pinned and Recent headers under "Context menu colors". Thanks David.
• Improvement Added save and apply progress dialog.
• Improvement Sharing (Export/Import) of menu layouts across languages is now greatly improved.
• Fix Builder is now better at showing the correct translated/localized menu item titles.
• Fix Builder and the actual context menus ordering is now matching.
• Fix Taskbar app: Sometimes unable to unpin certain apps. Thanks David.
• Fix Taskbar app: Added context menus to Explorer Pinned and Recent items. Thanks David.
• Fix Taskbar app: Explorer taskbar context menu was slow to load and display.
• Fix Made it easier to see the expand/collapse chevrons in the submenus in the builder. Thanks David.
• Fix Context menu now consistently shows under Home > Quick access.
• Fix Deleting certain commands no longer moves them to Show more actions or silently removes them.
• Fix Customize context menu now change the Context menu target if Context menu customization builder is already opened.
• Fix Renaming menu items just for specific file types is now working. Thanks Nico.
• Fix Reset menu now reverts renames.

New++

• Fix Performance issue when the New++ helper had been closed. When this happened it would also impact the context menu in general.

General

• Improvement Centered the search settings input field.
• Fix Installer sometimes failed to restart Explorer. Thanks Jan, Nico and Victor.

Context Menu+

• New Taskbar context menus are now supported in the context menu builder.
• New Taskbar menus now includes Window+ action such as Settings for window- pinning, positioning and program priority.
• New It is now possible to set Quick pins in one place across all context menus.
• Improvement Extract All… is now placed in the expected menu location.
• Improvement Increased the size of the Customize context menu settings window. Thanks David.
• Fix Wrong context menu when right clicking the address bar on some systems. Thanks David.
• Fix Some menu items you couldn't fully rename.
• Fix Both layouts now use "Show more actions". Thanks David.

Icon+

• Fix Application icon overlay is now removed from the bottom right corner for file types that had been rated or tagged.

Organize Folder

• Improvement Added icons to the different organization actions.
• Improvement Added options to control which Organize folder actions should be shown. Also now hides By file type when all Categories have been disabled. Thanks David.

Window+

• New Set and restore window position and size settings, first early version. Thanks Nico.
• New Set and restore priority setting.
• Fix Dock left/right more consistently works with Chrome and Edge web-based applications.

General

• Improvement Install and uninstall reliability improvements.
• Fix Getting Started videos volumes have been fixed. Thanks a lot Allan.
• Fix Explorer and Start would sometimes stall when used with certain cloud drive and context menu providers. Thanks Marie.

Commands+

• Fix Now shows correctly in the Open/Save dialogs. Thanks Nico.

Comment+

• New Comment+ now automatically opens when opening file with comments (except for installers with comments).
• Fix Opening comments on a file would cause the editor to prompt to save comments even if no changes were made.

Context Menu+

• New You can now specify minimum width of the context menu.
• Improvement Renamed Personalize -> "OneDrive" to "Cloud drive".
• Fix Default to "Windows 11 like" Context Menu+ layout on first time Context Menu+ install.
• Fix Clean install now shows Context Menu+ right after install.
• Fix Context menu customization dialog no longer automatically appears when going to the "Context Menu+" settings page.
• Fix Context menu customization does not use the localized names in the builder. Thanks Nico.
• Fix Some 3rd party commands are missing from the Context menu customization builder even though they show up on the actual context menu. Thanks Nico.
• Fix "Show more options" menu entry is now using the localized string from Windows.
• Fix "Open with" is missing in localized versions. Thank Nico.
• Fix Tofu codepoints were shown in the context menu on some versions of Windows.

Navigation+

• Improvement Changed the icon for new files Search filters.
• Fix Search filters are now more precise at scoping to specific person names.

New++

• New Now you can insert separators in Quick pins and New++. Use a file or folder <order>. —-. to add one. Change order to control the positioning like with other items. Thank you David.
• Fix New items are now created at the cursor location where the context menu was opened. This also works with multimonitors with different scaling settings. Thanks Jan.

People+

• Improvement Now asks you whether to add a folder to Windows search after recognizing a face in a photo that is in a location that isn't already included in the index.

General

• Improvement Informational notices are now dismissible.
• Improvement Backend availability monitoring and alerting for the license service.
• Fix Indexing stall check no longer wrongly warns about issues when returning from hibernation.
• Fix Installation now does a better job at closing the Productivity Plus Pack related applications and features to increase install speed.
• Fix Installation will no longer automatically restart the computer if certain functionality is updated.

Context Menu+

• New Background image settings. Thanks Jan.
• Improvement Now using a slightly smaller font for the hotkey in the context menu.
• Improvement Closing the builder now prompts to confirm in case there are unsaved changes. Thanks Allan.
• Improvement Commands+ {{prompt}} in commands is now supported.
• Improvement Ctrl + K now sets the focus in the search available commands in the builder.
• Fix Context menu opacity, minimum value is now 1%, meaning almost fully transparent. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Insert/reorder issue that happened on drag and drop. Thanks Nico.
• Fix Added icon to and moved Open file location and Open folder location. Thanks Jan.
• Fix .jpg and similar specific Commands+ commands now show up correctly under Available commands in the builder. Thanks Nico.
• Fix Context Menu+ wasn't correctly activated right after a fresh install, High Level Setting.json reset and restart.
• Fix Menu item settings were hard to read in Dark mode. Thanks Allan.

Media+

• Fix Skip forward/backwards wasn't always using the current location as its starting point.

Navigation+

• New You can now specify the Explorer starting location via Navigation+. You can now also set Search filters as default, which also makes opening Explorer faster.

New++

• New Backup/restore will now optionally include New++ templates.
• Fix Missing icons for some filetypes such as .js, .html, .json .yml. Thanks Jan.

General

• New Split File Organizer and moved things into separate pages (Comment+, Icon+, Navigation+, Rate+, and Tag+).
• New Merged Tag Sense AI into Tag+.
• New Add Search in the Settings App to support searching based on settings names.
• New Added initial payment flows.

Context Menu+

• New Multiple base layouts now supported. Now ships with the new default "Windows 11-like" more familiar layout across all menus, and also includes "Create, Organize, Personalize and More" layout. Thank you Torsten.
• New Inheritance and Content Type is now implemented for All files, e.g. All files -> Content Type (e.g. Image) -> .jpg file. Thank you Torsten.
• Improvement Quick pins and Quick browse: Now hiding .lnk and .url extensions for a cleaner look.
• Improvement It's now possible to filter commands in the builder.
• Improvement Many little UI & UX updates in the Builder.
• Improvement Additional commands are now alpha sorted.
• Improvement Submenus are collapsed by default in the builder menu layout and you can drag and hover to expand.
• Improvement Windows New now shows under Create.
• Fix Shortcut parameters are ignored. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Backup will by default now include pins. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Drag and drop should now work correctly.
• Fix Context menu scaling was wrong on the Desktop background across differing monitors specifically. Thanks Torsten.
• Fix Some icons (e.g. under Send To submenu) have a black background. Thanks Torsten.
• Fix "Compress to…" was missing.
• Fix Quick pin: Unable to edit the name and path of default Quick pins items.
• Fix Quick browse: Unable to edit the path of default Quick browse items.
• Fix The icon band hover color was a little off-center.

Tag+ and Rate+

• Improvement Faster display of thumbnail and icon overlays.

Navigation+

• Fix Wrong context menus were shown on Pinned items in the navigation.

General

• New Added a separate MS Store version to align with the MS Store policies. In the MS Store specific version: Removed the ability to easily install local AI Ollama and Gemma. Removed update checking. Will use Store APIs in a future version. Removed Support Productivity Plus Pack from the system tray. Everything else is the same, and will keep changes minimal between the two.
• Improvement Restore folders on Explorer Restarts.
• Improvement Backup and restore now includes your Quick pins, including collections you have pointed at a folder of your own. It is on by default and can be switched off under Advanced.
• Fix System tray should auto launch the hotkey handler.

Commands+

• New Open Recent folders list via a new Shell-Open.ps1 script. This command can also be used in Context Menu+. Thanks David.

Context Menu+

• New Added 'Shift' as an setting for submenus and commands. With the setting enabled, hold Shift-key down when bringing up the context menu to see all items. Thanks Jan.
• New Quick pins now use real folders and shortcuts and you can order entries similar to New++. There is also a new "Copy to <current folder>" that works similar to the copy template in New++ including support for variables and in-content updates.
• Improvement Removed Preview moniker from Context Menu+.
• Improvement Quick browse and Quick pins no longer dismisses the context menu when showing a context menu for the browsed / pinned item.
• Improvement Moved reset, export, import buttons slightly.
• Improvement Quick pins now support customized folder icons.
• Fix Close submenus on mouse hover on other parent menu. Thanks Jan and David.
• Fix Context menu in rare occasions would show up as classic. Fixed and added additional logging. Look for [bypass].
• Fix The icons are missing from the "Icon" context menu items.
• Fix The icons are missing from the "Send To" context menu items.
• Fix The icons are missing from the "Include in library" context menu items.
• Fix Icon context menu was missing from Drive by default.

Navigation+

• Improvement Updated the File Organizer description to include comments.
• New Quick pins are now also available from within "Search filters".

New++

• Improvement Open template folder was very slow.
• Improvement Sorting "9. Template" is now sorted before "10. Template".
• Fix Too few templates were shown in New++ when in Context Menu+ mode.

Window+

• Improvement Undock by using the same dock hotkey twice.
• Fix Hotkeys aren't shown for the Window / Dock Left and Window / Dock Right menu items.

General

• Updated license agreement included to enable Microsoft Store subscription.
• See latest license agreement here: https://www.onegreatworld.com/products/productivity-plus-pack/License/

General

• Fix System tray. Exit will now also close any Productivity Plus Pack related modern context menu COM surrogate processes launched by Explorer. Thank you Jan.
• Fix Installer now also closes modern context menu COM surrogate processes launched by Explorer.

Context Menu+

• New Quick pins, pin files and folders, and access them from the context menu.
• New Customize the context menu per file type.
• Improvement Display of the context menu is now much faster.
• Fix Builder was still missing items from the actual context menu such as New++ and New. Thank you Jan for patiently reporting this several times.

General

• Improvement All sections can now be collapsed and the collapse/expansion state is remembered.
• Fix Exit in the system tray wasn't exiting all apps. Thanks Jan.
• Fix System tray menu wasn't always showing and sometimes was showing up as all white. Thanks David.

Context Menu+

• Improvement Paste toolbar shows on Desktop by default and can be removed. Thanks David.
• Improvement Added Personalize->"Customize menu" to all default layouts, and Customize menu opens the appropriate layout in the builder.
• Fix New++ missing from the desktop menu layout. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Tag and Rate missing from the All Files menu layout.
• Fix Sometimes right clicking in the left navigation pane would display a context menu that was not drawn correctly.
• Fix Not 100% sure if this is fixed. Right clicking items in the left navigation pane was displaying the classic context menu. Thanks David.

New++

• Fix A couple of internal issues that could slightly impact performance.

Paste+

• Fix Unable to disable the "Paste as" context menu toggle (the row would become disabled but toggle wouldn't slide to the left, and also unable to turn off the Paste as hotkey. Thanks David.

General

• Improvement Every settings section can now be collapsed, and each section remembers whether you left it open or closed.

Context Menu+

• Improvement Context Menu+ now collapses non-applicable setting sections. Thanks David.
• Improvement The entire row is now draggable in the builder.
• Fix Actual context menu order matches the context menu builder preview interface. Thanks Jan and David.
• Fix Unable to freely move all menu items.
• Fix Context menu builder icons for modern context menu extensions should now be correct after the context menu where they appear has been displayed once, as we can't infer/detect from just looking at the product/package itself.

General

• New Support .pngs in addition to .icos. Thank you Jan.
• Fix Reduced "screen-flashing" during install and during certain settings changes.

Commands+

• Improvement Updated icon.

Context Menu+

• 🔥"Quick browse" via the context menu with a customizable browse starting point. You can add multiple Quick browse commands per context menu. Quick browse has been added to the default folder layout.
• Improvement Show keyboard hotkeys in Context Menu+ for Productivity Plus Pack built-in commands.
• Improvement Moved Commands to top of Other actions.
• Improvement Moved Edit with Paint, Edit with Photos, Create with Designer under Create in the delay layout.
• Improvement Drag and drop now more clearly shows the drop location in the context menu builder. Thank you Victor.
• Fix The list of context menu extensions were not always reflecting the current machine especially after backup/restore from another machine. Thank you Jan.

New++

• 🔥 Now New++ supports nested template groups via the Context Menu+ This approach will also make it easy for 3rd party extensions to offer nested submenus in their extensions.

Context Menu+

• Fix Cleaned up internal hardcoded ordering/placement rules.
• Fix Several confusing OneDrive entries. Thanks David and Jan.
• Fix Unable to remove NVidia entry. Thanks David.
• Fix Unable to remove Terminal and Terminal Preview. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Add button for the most part looked disabled. Thanks David.
• Fix Corrected display of access keys.
• Fix Context menu display in several namespaces such as Network, This PC, Gallery, iCloud, and more. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Left navigation context menu display location was often in the wrong place.

General

• Welcome page and coming soon status updates.

AI Hotkeys+

• Fix Small fix in button layout when Ollama isn't found.

Comment+

• New Support for bulleted and numbered lists.
• Fix Clicking checklists causes less scrolling.

Context Menu+

• New Setting to configure whether to display applicable hotkeys.
• Improvement Hiding a modern menu item will also prevent it from being loaded, leading to better context menu performance.
• Fix Reordering of items. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Drag and drop of items. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Support New++ renamed as New. Thanks Jan.
• Fix Better icon discovery for classic extension.
• Fix Several other fixes and improvements.

Settings

• Improvement Updated the Welcome page to include product update status, indexing status, and the list of features.

Context Menu+

• Fix List of modern context menu extensions were not always loading and it was also blocking switching to Context Menu+. Thank you Jan and David.

Comment+

• Fix Performance issues

Context Menu+

• Fix Upgrade bug. Thank you David.
• Fix Modern context menu scanning bug. Thank you David.
• Improvement Context menu is 1.5x-3x faster on single and multiple items.
• Improvement Animation duration setting.

New++

• Improvement Context menu is ~1.5x faster on background clicks.

Rate and Tag

• Improvement Rate and Tag context menus are ~ 1.5x faster on first time clicks.

General

• Fix All build-type outputs are cleared and always up to date as part of the release cycle.

File Organizer

• 🔥 Camera recorded photo location is now exposed as city, state/province and country/region information. Search, Group by, Tooltip, Details, and Properties are all supported. Geographically-location resolution is based on GPS information embedded in most photos, and the location resolution is done 100% local and private. Search reindexing is required for the location information to show up correctly in the search results. Reindex any folder anytime using the context menu -> Commands -> "Request Windows Search to Reindex".
• Improvement Tags are now also shown in columns for folders, and will enable you to group by tags. Note: Windows does currently not support searching tags on folders.

Media+

• New Seek forward/back (10 seconds or what you set it to) hotkeys. Works in Spotify and YouTube (Chrome & Edge) but not in all apps including VLC.
• New Mute/unmute the volume hotkey

Organize Folder

• New Organize photos to automatically rename and move photo into subfolders - and with undo. Customization of file-naming and folder organization is supported.

General

• Improvement Increased the chances of finding a file just based on its filename. This is helpful for certain hotkeys and Window+ file related actions.

Commands+

• New Comment-on-file.ps1 script to bulk replace, append, clear comments to files.
• Fix Windows-search-reindex.ps1 was not working for certain filepaths.
• Fix Provide additional details dialog didn't always pop to the top.

Comment+

• Fix Now double checks that comments were saved on close the comment window. This was particularly an issue for Windows 365 (Office) documents.

Context Menu+

• New Fully customize context menus for the desktop, drives, folders, and different types of files.
• Improvement Faster scanning and better detection of icon and text for context menu entries of modern and classic context menus.

Media+

• Fix Muted microphone now shows up again after an Explorer restart.

Paste+

• Fix Paste+ master switch now works. Thank you Jan for reporting.

Search filters

• Improvement .wma added to all built-in Music search filters

Window+

• Fix File->Show in File Explorer and File->Comment opened windows are now shown in the foreground.

File Organizer

• New Comments+ support for headings.
• New New search filter to help find files with comments.
• Fix Comments+ markdown support is much more reliable and faster.
• Fix Icon resolution improved for .ps1, .docx and other filetypes.

New++

• New New++ via hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + N).

Paste+

• New Paste as via hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + V).

General

• New Added "Support Productivity Plus Pack…" link and PayPal links on the Pricing webpage.
• Rebrand: Updated icons to further align with Window icons. Philip is still seen completing the Getting Started section.
• Improvement Backup and restore now includes all settings and can include your People face data too.
• Improvement Script dialog Productivity.MessageDialog.exe now pops to the foreground and has an icon.
• Fix New++ when disabled would drastically slow the display of the entire classic context menu. Thank you Elgsdyr.

AI Hotkeys+

• New Hotkey to do a direct local chat, default is WIN + /
• Improvement Local AI chat now has markdown rendered responses, chat window can be resized, zoomed and settings are restored.
• Improvement and more rounded corners for confirmation dialog and dropdown and text edit field.

File Organizer

• New Support for customization of local and network drives. Thank you David.
• Rebrand: Have not yet rebranded. Have been thinking of combining a few things into Explorer+. If you have feedback please share on Discord.
• Improvement Ratings are now always at the top right.
• Improvement Changed the namespace name from File Organizer to Search filter.
• Improvement Windows Search indexing status is now reflected in the Search filter icon (can be turned off).
• Improvement You can now specify default folder view settings in the namespace.json
• Improvement Ratings are now rendered on the same line for both landscape or portrait photos and ratings are rendered slightly lower.
• Improvement Updated folder icons with higher fidelity generated based on Windows built-in ones.
• Fix Restoring many custom folder icons across devices was in some instances not working.
• Fix Rendering of people's faces in the People search filters is now proportional.

Navigation+

• New Control the Explorer left navigation pane. Enable/disable, rename and reorder entries.
• Also moved the Search filters from the File Organizer page to the new Navigation+ page.

Paste+

• Rebrand: Merged Paste Plain and Paste as into Paste+.

People+

• New Script for removing personal identifiable information (names and location) from photos (Remove-Personal-Data.ps1). Note: This only applies to .jpg files for now.
• New Customizable grouping of people.
• New Control whether a person should show up in the People search filters.
• Improvement Accuracy of face recognition.
• Improvement Review of people that may recognize.

General

• Rebrand: Initial pass on removing the mascot and moving to towards more regular Windows app branding,
• Redesigned https://www.onegreatworld.com.
• Important: Updated the EULA.rtf (End User License Agreement that we show during install), License.txt and the About page.

File Organizer

• Fix Searches now exclude the recycle bin files across all volumes.
• Fix Icons (.ico) are now rendered in their full resolution.

People+

• New Photo library will now highlight where photo files might have been removed.
• New Photos that are moved will now maintain your recognition work.
• Improvement 'Confirm all' action is now 5x faster.
• Improvement Speed of recognizing faces is now 2x times faster.
• Improvement Accuracy of recognizing faces has been improved.

Window+

• New Dock any window to the left or right, similar to what is possible in OneNote. Thanks Victor!

People+

• Improvement Added a "Confirm all" faces action for a person.
• Improvement Quick actions toolbar on hover.
• Fix Removed dependency on Ollama for Face recognition.

File Organizer

• New Added "New files", "Modified files" search filters.
• Improvement Sort by column is now supported. Name, Size, Created, Modified, Tags, Rating, File location, Type.
• Improvement Updated the File Organizer namespace icon.

General

• Improvement Consistency of hotkey enablement and customization UI. Thanks Allan.
• Fix The progress dialog no longer keeps popping to the front while processing larger amounts of files.

People+ 🆕

• New Recognize and tag people in your photos using local private AI. All face and person name information data is stored on your PC.
• Review, edit, or remove person tags at any time - you are in control of your memories and your privacy.
• This feature has been a lot of effort. Ideas and feedback on how to make it better are greatly appreciated.
• Note: You will need to consent to the privacy notice first before the feature can be enabled.

General

• Improvement Several Settings UI changes and tweaks. And with more coming. Thank you Allan.
• Improvement Left clicking in the System Tray is now showing the context menu as well.

AI Hotkeys+

• New Local AI: Quickly and privately prompt local AI with the selected text and using hotkeys (Ctrl+Win+Alt+L followed by 1-9 is the default).
• New Cloud AI: Quickly prompt cloud AI with the selected text and using hotkeys (Ctrl+Win+Alt+A followed by 1-9 is the default). The default Cloud AI provider is Perplexity.ai
• We hope to hear from you on these 2 new features. What is working well? What isn't working well? And other top of mind feedback?

Commands+

• New A new script that lets you request Windows search to reindex a file/folder path. The script is also added to folders commands on clean install.
• Improvement Updated the icon for Commands context menu in dark mode.

File Organizer

• New Added support for tagging and rating of folders. Thanks to Lars and Philip for suggesting this feature.
• New You can now create shortcuts to any of the search folders.
• New Added tagging, rating, iconing support for .aspx .cs .master, .url, .webmanifest
• Improvement Default rating overlay icon has been updated.
• Improvement Ratings no longer shown on small (<=24px) icons.
• Improvement "No matching files where found" is now displayed in a File Organizer search folder as appropriate.
• Improvement Small changes to search filter query builder after demoing to Victor. Thank you Victor.
• Improvement You can now reorder tags in Tag Manager using drag and drop.
• Fix Tag Manager now renders tag icons in higher fidelity.
• Fix Launching Tag Manager multiple times will now bring the already running Tag Manager to the foreground.
• Fix Icon overlays are now updating when tagging and rating files within the File Organizer search results.

New++

• Improvement Updated the icon for the New++ context menu entry.

Organize Folder

• New Reorganize a folder's contents into subfolders automatically. You can add and remove categories of subfolders, and you can also undo the organization using "Organize folder".

Paste as

• New Added icons for the different types of paste.

Website

• New Added initial set of Detailed Guides to https://www.onegreatworld.com/products/productivity-plus-pack/support

General

• Improvement Added setting toggles to force-enable "Commands". "New++", and "Paste as" to show on the "Show more options" and classic context menu. Thanks David for reporting, and special thanks to Victor for patiently helping test several iterations. This is not a long term fix, but hopefully the change will help those who don't see these entries on their classic context menus. You can find these new toggles under the Context Menu+ settings tab.
• Improvement The settings app now has sticky section headers.

File Organizer

• New It's now possible to customize the list of search filters on the left. You can also rename the File Organizer entry to Search filters or something else.
• New Tag and Rate actions now also check to see if the file location is included in Windows Search and if not makes it easy to add the location. This new setting is on by default.

General

• 🙏 We had our weekly Thursday review & feedback session on Discord. Thank you for the feedback and helping make Productivity Plus Pack and our Discord setup even better!
• Existing the System Tray now closes all Productivity Plus Pack related .exe's. Note: It does not close any ongoing tagging, rating or similar processes.

Commands+

• Fix All included .ps1 scripts now work with PowerShell v5.
• Improvement Delete of empty folders, you'll now need to confirm on delete to help avoid accidental deletes.
• New Messages are now shown using a themed custom dialog and it also support longer messages. You can use this in your own scripts too. See included scripts for examples. Thanks in part to Jan!

File Organizer

• Fix Tag Manager no longer requires you to apply a tag to add a new tag to the list. Thanks MarieDane.
• Fix Made additional robustness fixes mainly impacting preview for files on OneDrive.
• New Rounded corners on image previews (except for .ico files). The option is on by default.

New++

• New Option to control whether selected items are added to folders as they are created. Note this also controls creation of new folders using the hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+N). Thanks David.
• Partial fix: Very hard to see the group templates when opening the group using Show more options/classic context menu.Thanks David.

Hotfix for settings upgrade issue that would cause settings to revert back to defaults.

Special thanks to David on the Productivity Plus Pack Discord for reporting the issue.

General

• 🙏 We had our weekly Thursday review & feedback session on Discord. Thank you for the feedback and helping make Productivity Plus Pack even better!
• ❗Settings are now centralized and all settings are now backed up on upgrade, keeping the 2 most recent. Backup copies are placed in "%LocalAppData%\One Great World LLC\Productivity Plus Pack\Settings\Backups".

Commands+

• New Quickly disable/enable a command. Thanks Jan!
• Fix Signed included .ps1 scripts. More work is needed to have .ps1 scripts reliably work.

File Organizer

• Improvement Deleting a source file within search folders will always prompt for confirmation. Thanks MarieDane.
• Improvement Support for moving and deleting multiple source files is now supported.
• Improvement More stability while browsing folders with large amounts of photos.
• Work-in-progress: You can now rename the original files within search folders.
• ❗Improvement: 5x-6x faster performance going between Ratings and Tags search folders.
• Improvement .jxl files now load 3x-4x faster.
• Improvement Rate and Tag Context menus now have 2x faster context menu load time. Thanks MarieDane, Victor and Jan!
• Change: Thumbnails are now bottom aligned instead of center aligned to better match OneDrive behavior.
• New Support for rating and tagging of .lnk shortcut files. Note we do not currently support different icons and overlays for .lnk files.
• New Support for rating and tagging of .bmp, .gif, .ico, .svg, and .webp image files.
• New Choose your own rating overlay icons. Thanks Victor.

Media Keys

• New The microphone mute icon is now shown in the system tray. Note it is in the system tray overflow and you can move it to the task bar if you want.

New++

• New New++ support for additional grouping of templates. When you add the $group variable to a template folder name. To workaround shortcoming with Windows 11 modern context menus, New++ will show a new menu of the files and folders within the template. You can also hold down SHIFT while clicking on any template folder to also show the menu. Special thanks to David!
• New External data sources from .csv and .json can now power your New++ file, folder, and content variables! Special thanks to Roman!
• New Added a few extra templates to show use of grouping and external data source and .zip file.

Window+

• Improvement Don't show the File menu if there isn't a likely filename in the window title.

Hotfix for a File Organizer issue that would cause Windows Explorer and the Windows Start-menu to freeze after 5-15 minutes.

Special thanks to Dirtsurfer661 on the Productivity Plus Pack Discord for reporting the issue and helping test the fix!

General

• We had our weekly Thursday review & feedback session on Discord. Thank you for the feedback and helping make Productivity Plus Pack even better.

Commands+

• New New option to keep command line open and copy command to clipboard. Thanks Jan | GoldenVenom.
• Improvement Display message if the script reports error. Thanks Jan | GoldenVenom.
• New Remove-Exif.ps1 a new script that provides a few options for removing EXIF data like GPS, camera model, camera settings from your images. This is also available as a Command.
• New Set-LastWriteTime.ps1 as simple script to update the last write time on files. This is in the script folder, do you think it should be added to the list of commands?
• New Delete-intermediate-build-files.ps1 first version of a script to delete various build files like .obj, .pch etc. This is in the script folder, do you think it should be added to the list of commands?
• New Clear-Explorer-and-OneDrive-icon-caches.ps1 a script mainly for myself but helps removing corrupted thumbnail and icon caches. This is in the script folder, do you think it should be added to the list of commands?
• New Manage-OneDrive-files.ps1 a script to manage OneDrive file states (AlwaysKeepOnDevice, FreeUpSpace, MakeAvailableOffline) for specified folders and ability to filter based on size and type. This is also just in the script folder.

File Organizer

• Improvement Additional reliability and performance in rendering the rating and tagging overlays for local and cloud files.
• Improvement New default tags and additional icons! Hope to hear and learn from you.
• Improvement Now File Organizer detects if the Windows Search service is stuck and will alert if that's the case and offer you the option to restart the service.
• Fix Long-standing issue of inconsistent navigation and refresh between search folders has now finally been fixed.

New++

• Fix Ctrl + Shift + N is now working again in OneNote and other apps.
• Improvement Slight performance improvements in showing the context menu.

Tag Sense AI

• Improvement Dropdown added with additional model options, including Gemma 4. Icons for recommended and downloadable models and Gemma 3 is still our recommended model. Gemma 4 is taking more resources, and processing is taking a lot longer. Please share your learning too.
• Known issue:
• Ollama must be running for download icons in the model list to be appropriately displayed.
• Planned fix:
• Add Ollama startup on bootup toggle.
• Check if Ollama is running to make call model install status -> If not, folder existence check for models as backup check -> If not, then it's downloadable.

General

• New The New and Coming soon page now includes change history similar to what is posted to the Discord shipped channel. And you can now jump straight there from the just installed toast shown on update.
• Improved: Now displaying the version number as part of the Productivity Plus Pack is all up to date message and also removed the copy-button. Thanks Jan | GoldenVenom.
• Improved: Exit in the system tray now closes the Settings App and Settings App now opens the System Tray as needed. Thanks Jan | GoldenVenom.
• New We had our first weekly Thursday review & feedback session on Discord. Thanks for the feedback and helping make Productivity Plus Pack work better for you and others.

Commands+

• New You can now use {{}} New++ variable syntax for parameters so you'll get prompted for additional input before running the command. See the "Resize image for sharing" and "Backup file to backup location…" for examples.
• New "Resize image for sharing" command and script for easy sharing of images.
• Improvement/fix: Now commands are run using the batch processor for increased stability for when running commands on more than 10 files. This also adds process reporting as an additional benefit.
• New "Backup file to backup location…" uses the backup-file.ps1 with new parameters and will by default maintain the relative folder structure and command will remember your most recent choices. Thanks Jan | GoldenVenom for the idea.
• Improvement Removed "(example)" from some of the commands. Note: We might need to introduce ids to prevent duplications and better cleanup going forward.

File Organizer

• ❗Improvement: Finally figured out how to get the overlays on OneDrive working much more reliably and with less flickery. This has been a lot of effort this week. Greatly appreciate it if you can let us know of cases where this might not be working for you.
• Improvement Huge performance gains in loading of images.
• New .arw, .heic, .jxl, image/photo files are now supported for tagging and rating and icon and thumbnail previews when the codecs are installed.

New++

• Improvement Don't show {} for {{}} variables in the context menu. Thank you for the continued feedback Dirtsurfer661!
• New You can now use $last_used_value to default to the last entered and selected value {{my_variable;label=My variable;default=$last_used_value}}
• Fix Better scaling of the variables dialog (thanks Victor!).
• Fix "Open templates" location from context menu doesn't always work though it works when using the Settings app. This should now have been fixed (thanks Victor!).
• Fix New++ Create folder and templates with more than 16 items
• FYI: Setting the $title $NNNN variable and maintaining the numbering functionality isn't currently possible. Thanks for reporting Dirtsurfer661. Will look at this in an upcoming release.

General

• Improvement In the system tray you now always click "Download and install…" and it will check for updates

Commands+

• New: Customizable window state added, choose between Normal (default), Minimize, Maximize, and Hidden
• New: Directory-listing.ps1 script that copies the list of files in the specified folder and subfolder. The script can also write the list to a file
• Improved: Delete-empty-folders.ps1 now will evaluate all folders under specified root as candidates and will delete starting at the deepest node to remove folders which only contain empty folders too

New++

• New: {{Variables}} within text files are now also updated
• Fix Positioning of folder bug on create new from selection when using hotkey Ctrl+Shift+N
• Fix New++ not showing first time after reboot where service hasn't been loaded
• Fix Use the current monitor for the variables dialog
• Fix Better scaling of the variables dialog with more work needed (thank you @victor5953)
• Fix New++ would crash if the same variable appeared multiple times in the filename (thank you @victor5953!)
• Improvement New++ 3 components now all log to the same directory
• Improvement Updated Settings with slightly better examples {{Variable;label=Friendly name;default=Default value}}
• Feedback: Are you interested in a New++ CLI that you can use to create templates using a new++.exe -TemplateSource <source path> -TargetFolder [-Selection <selection of files>] [variables]?

General

• Added more Productivity Plus Pack entries to the Start Menu to help with discovery and accessibility (too much? Let us know)
• Fix Notices displayed in Windows light theme mode were hardly readable.

Commands+

• Improvement Added "Backup file (example)" and "Delete empty folders (example)" as example script commands (special thanks to Dirtsurfer661 for the ideas and initial implementation)
• Improvement .ps1 script files now have Run script with PowerShell v5 and v7 in non-admin and admin mode command context menu
• Fix Open in PowerShell, Open in Command Prompt on folders work again
• Fix Only show commands that applies to the Desktop on the Desktop

New++

• Improvement Added an additional default template that better demonstrate the {{Variable;label=Friendly name;default=Default value}} feature in the folder name and the including file in subfolder
• Improvement Creating a new file/folder on the desktop from template, no longer weirdly moves just as it enters rename mode and has improved multi monitor support with different dpi settings
• Improvement Customize the name of the context menu entry
• Improvement Even faster load now, the rest of the time is spent by File Explorer and we expect Windows to further improve that part
• Fix New++ always showing Create <template> with 1 item in Open/Save dialog and in the classic context menu

System Tray

• Improvement Only allow for one instance of the System Tray