I started with Windows 7 and I realized that I couldn't drop files on .js javascript files anymore. I couldn't even see a highlight when hovering over the target files, like I could it behaved with other files (vbs, jse and bat). "What the hell?", I thought
I have been googling for so long without answers to my problem that I just have to write it here. Hope it saves someone some time.
A lot of things that I found did clear my path to the solution below, but, for the record, none of these were thé solution:
Until I found the following "UserChoice" key, but this time in HKEY_CURRENT_USER:
I have been googling for so long without answers to my problem that I just have to write it here. Hope it saves someone some time.
A lot of things that I found did clear my path to the solution below, but, for the record, none of these were thé solution:
- filetype settings or their association settings
- "open with" settings
- registry keys and values in ".js" as "JSFile" in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, especially "shell" keys
- DropHandler
- Open Commands
- etc..
- DropHandler
Until I found the following "UserChoice" key, but this time in HKEY_CURRENT_USER:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.jse\UserChoiceSo I deleted that key UserChoice and ..Tada..works now
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