What's new

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.