MP3Tag missing from Windows Right click drop down box...again

[Ronno6]

It happened again.

Right-clicking on an audio track used to gibe me the MP3Tag option....even yesterday.

Today, it is gone...again.

When I go to enter: cd regsvr32Mp3tagShell.dll

at the command prompt, I am cautioned that I an about to enter a multi line command that could have unintended consequences. Is it same to enter as is, or should I move the second line up?

Actually, the cmd line on the help link is longer....so confusing...

[ohrenkino]

It is 2 seperate lines, each one to be executed individually but in the displayed order

[Ronno6]

Do I need to restart after entering that command?

[ohrenkino]

isn't it much easier to directly try it than to ask?

[Ronno6]

It is my experience that it would not..

[LyricsLover]

Just try it exactly like this:

Installation & Backup

Right-click context menu is missing on Windows 11 Assuming you've already restarted explorer.exe via the right-click context menu in Task Manager (or have rebooted Windows), this is happening sometimes on Windows 11 for reasons which I still trying to find out. What might help in those cases and when the classic context menu is preferred, is to manually register the shell extension from a command prompt with admin rights: cd <path to Mp3tag installation> regsvr32 Mp3tagShell.dll

[ohrenkino]

... @LyricsLover links to the same topic that you already know from this thread:

Where did MP3Tag explorer context menu go?

When viewing MP3 audio book discs and tracks in Windows 11 File Explorer, I used to right-click a disc or tracks in the disc and MP2 Tag would come up in the “Open” drop down box. Not any more…….. Where di d it go? What Am I doing wrong?

So: nothing has changed in the meantime. You still would have to execute everything locally.

[Ronno6]

When I copy and paste that line in a cmd. prompt, I am informed that "System cannot find the file specified."

In the above referenced thread, I stated that it HAD RETURNED. But.................Now it is GONE.

I just do not understand why Mp3tag WAS present, then NOT present, then preset again, now NOT present...

[ohrenkino]

As you do not supply any detailed information, it is not really possible to give you other suggestions.
I miss hints how to reproduce the problem.
A screenshot of the command(s) that you enter would be a start.

[Ronno6]

[ohrenkino]

You would have to replace the text <path to MP3tag installation> with the real path.
So find out in which location you installed MP3tag, then use that information to fill in the path.

[Ronno6]

It is installed to: "C:\Program Files\Mp3tag\Mp3tag.exe"

[ohrenkino]

So the command would be:
cd C:\Program Files\Mp3tag
press Enter
end then enter
regsvr32 mp3tagshell.dll
press Enter again.

[Ronno6]

[ohrenkino]

I think it should be
regsvr32

[Ronno6]

[ohrenkino]

The error indicates insufficient access rights.
You would have to run the command prompt explicitly with administrator rights.

[Ronno6]

According to my account, I AM the administrator.....

this has been a couple days of silly failures.. I am not accustomed to that...

As my right click drop down had a program "Edit ID Tags" provided by my CD ripping program, I guess I will just use that.

Still don't know why Mp3tag is playing peek-a-boo with that drop down menu.....

[ohrenkino]

@Ronno6

According to my account, I AM the administrator.....

You would still have to execute the command prompt as administrator - which is an extra option to open that program.

@Ronno6

Still don't know why Mp3tag is playing peek-a-boo with that drop down menu.....

This is something that only you can find out locally with a thorough investigation what happened before and what has changed.

[Ronno6]

I ran as administrator. Entered the 2 command lines.

It said that it had been executed successfully.

I restarted the PC and...................it Is there, just in a lower position than before!

Thank you!