[RWP] Reaper's affect on Windows Explorer

[Jim Snowbarger]

Nope, no affect on navigation.  Just the context menu.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Reaper's affect on Windows Explorer


> Sorry Jim, I totally misunderstood your question before.
> I just found a difference in the context menu dropped on the desktop with 
> the applications key, depending on whether Reaper is running or not 
> running.
> I got this both with NVDA and Wineyes.
> Once inside Reaper, I left Reaper with the start key and letter M.
> Then, focused on any icon on my desktop, a press of the right click or 
> Applications key would open a graphics properties menu, I guess on the 
> properties of whatever Desktop icon I was focused on.
> Without Reaper running, pressing applications would open the usual context 
> menu.
> I'd never experimented with this, so I tried the same moves wwith GoldWave 
> running, pressed start+M, and then on the desktop pressing applications 
> always got the usual context menu, no exceptions.
>
> So, Reaper definitely is influencing Windows Explorer.
> Can you say how it is interfering with navigation, when you're outside 
> Reaper while it's running?
> Every day I use start+M to go outside Reaper to browse for media files, or 
> to look at notes on how to run Reaper, and I never noticed any hindrance 
> to ordinary navigation.
> Thanks,
> Indigo L
>
> On 4/2/2012 11:05 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
>> Do you guys see this?  Running windows XP.  When I run windows explore to 
>> jsut hunt around for files, and I select a file, then hit the context key 
>> to get the menu, the menu offered is different, depending on whether 
>> Reaper is running or not.
>> I don't see this on the windows 7 machine.  Very strange.  When reaper is 
>> running, the menu I get looks like one where you choose which details to 
>> show in the windows explorer file listing.  A buncyh of checkboxes for 
>> title, bit rate, size etc.
>> But, when I close reper, the normal open, open with, send to, all that 
>> stuff appears.
>> Very strange.  Does anybody else see that?  Any idea of how to stop it?
>>
>>
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