"Properties" not showing in Taskbar right click context menu

[MightyM8]

Windows 11 build 22631.2191
Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22671.1000.0

When I right click on the Taskbar, the context menu is abreviated from what it was previously.

I am not able to access the Explorer Patcher settings screen.

[kwhopson]

I have this problem too, or similar rather, on three different PCs. The difference is I'm not even able to see Taskbar Manager and Taskbar Settings. When I right-mouse on the taskbar, all icons disappear for a second, then return, but Manager, Settings or Properties for Explorer Patcher never show. Oddly, after initially installing, it did work like it is supposed to, and I was able to use the Explorer Patcher Properties to have the Start Menu show All Apps by default. I'm not sure when right-mousing on the taskbar stopped working, but it was within a few days of installation at the most.

[pyrates999]

to run the explorer patcher properties application, run this from the run menu:
C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe "C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher\ExplorerPatcher.amd64.dll",ZZGUI

Then go to advanced and make sure the option Do not change the taskbar context menu (e.g. do not display the "Properties" is not enabled. Then you can right click on the taskbar and you should see the Properties option.

[chasemasters]

I did this, but now I don't see properties. I see settings, lock task bar, task manager, etc, but not properties.

[kwhopson]

I'm not in front of my computer right now to verify but if I remember right, following pyrates999 instructions did launch ExplorerPatcher though the Advanced option they suggested did not bring Properties back. Since I now had a way to launch EP I toyed around with more settings and found if I toggled one of the options from Windows 11 to Windows 10, it still retained all my specific Windows 11 tweaks as well as brought Properties back when right-mousing on the taskbar (this is the part I can't exactly verify, I don't recall where I toggled 11 to 10, but it was near the top, a pull-down I think). Hope that helps.

[chasemasters]

Yep, that worked.

[pyrates999]

What setting did you change so it can be marked as the answer?