Context Menu Going Left Not Right

Hi,

When I right click in any window or on the desktop for the context menu it goes to the left and not to the right like it normally should. An example would be if I were to right click in Windows Explorer and choose "View" the sub menu would appear to the left and not the right. I am finding this highly annoying as I am used to it going to the right.

Does anyone know of a regedit or any kind of option to change this behavior?

I've tried to change my mouse to left handed and then back to right handed but that didn't change a thing.

Any advise to fixing this problem would be great!

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate.

Thanks for any help,
duff916

duff916 said:

Hi,

When I right click in any window or on the desktop for the context menu it goes to the left and not to the right like it normally should. An example would be if I were to right click in Windows Explorer and choose "View" the sub menu would appear to the left and not the right. I am finding this highly annoying as I am used to it going to the right.

Does anyone know of a regedit or any kind of option to change this behavior?

I've tried to change my mouse to left handed and then back to right handed but that didn't change a thing.

Any advise to fixing this problem would be great!

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate.

Thanks for any help,
duff916

One was posted here on SF yesterday. All you need to do is search for it.

duff916, welcome to the forums.

This is the thread that Ken was referring to,

April 4/27/2010 Windows 7 x64 updates = menu problem

and this is the tutorial to fix it,

Menus Open to the Left or Right Side

zigzag3143 said:

duff916 said:

Hi,

When I right click in any window or on the desktop for the context menu it goes to the left and not to the right like it normally should. An example would be if I were to right click in Windows Explorer and choose "View" the sub menu would appear to the left and not the right. I am finding this highly annoying as I am used to it going to the right.

Does anyone know of a regedit or any kind of option to change this behavior?

I've tried to change my mouse to left handed and then back to right handed but that didn't change a thing.

Any advise to fixing this problem would be great!

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate.

Thanks for any help,
duff916

One was posted here on SF yesterday. All you need to do is search for it.

I did a search before I posted this and I didn't find anything. I'll search again.

Thanks for the help.

stormy13 said:

duff916, welcome to the forums.

This is the thread that Ken was referring to,

April 4/27/2010 Windows 7 x64 updates = menu problem

and this is the tutorial to fix it,

Menus Open to the Left or Right Side

Thanks!!!

You're welcome.

You never would have found it searching using "context menu" as the word context isn't in the thread at all.

stormy13 said:

You're welcome.

You never would have found it searching using "context menu" as the word context isn't in the thread at all.

That's what I was searching for too, "Context Menu".

Thanks again for your help!

MilesAhead said:

stormy13 said:

You're welcome.

You never would have found it searching using "context menu" as the word context isn't in the thread at all.

Yeah, sometimes it's tough to apprehend things taken out of context.

But that's what the menu is called am I not correct? Context Menu