A few upgrade issues.

Hello, all. Last night I performed an in-place repair upgrade on my PC with Windows 7 Ultimate x64, to repair some errors which could not otherwise be fixed.

All seems to have gone well with the upgrade (aside from the fact that I need to reinstall a few drivers, which is to be expected. ), except I seem to have run into one bug which has confused me.

Basically, when I right click an icon on the taskbar, none of the buttons on the "Tasks" menu works. For example, IE9 has "Start InPrivate Browsing" and "Open new tab", Google Chrome has "New Window", etc. I have tried multiple programs, some of which were pinned to the taskbar, others which were not, and none of the buttons seem to work.

I use these menus quite often, so would like to restore functionality to these buttons if possible. A clean installation of my OS would have to be an absolute last resort for me, as I have a lot of program files etc which I don't have the time to reinstall.

Just to clarify, I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 to Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1, so I didn't change OS.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom.

Update - I just ran "sfc /scannow" in an elevated command prompt window. Alas, no integrity violations were found. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Hi Teeks. :)
Use Taskbar Context Menus - Enable or Disable tutorial.
This order:

1. "Disable_Taskbar_Context_Menus.zip".
2. "Enable_Taskbar_Context_Menus.zip"

Hope that helps.
Let us know the results.

That didn't help, as that disabled the right-click menu on the actual taskbar. My problem is with the right-click menu of programs. I've posted a screenshot of the right-click menu for Google Chrome, and circled the buttons that aren't working in red. It's the buttons in the Tasks section that don't work, for all of the programs I have tried so far, not just Chrome. Sorry if I worded it badly before. :P

Teekz said:

All seems to have gone well with the upgrade (aside from the fact that I need to reinstall a few drivers, which is to be expected. )
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Just to clarify, I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 to Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1, so I didn't change OS.

You reinstalled Windows over the previous installation. I got it wrong?
Have you used a slipstreamed Windows 7 SP1 DVD? See below. Source.

Yes, I reinstalled the same OS using the upgrade feature on the installation DVD, essentially reinstalling it whilst leaving my programs etc intact, as explained in the following tutorial: Repair Install

I didn't use a slipstreamed DVD, I used a retail SP1 DVD.

Some programs have an option to repair the installation - Uninstall or change a program - the old add / remove. Have you tried it? If no, unpin them before do it.

Yes, I've also tried entirely uninstalling and reinstalling a program, but the buttons still do not work. It seems to be an error with Windows, more than with any programs.

I think I might try another repair upgrade tonight, just in case it fixes it this time.

Do you have any more ideas?

No. I ran out of ideas. Sorry.
Well, unpin any program before do a repair install again.
Good luck!