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## Summary of the Pull Request
This PR fixes an issue where context menu runtime registration wasn't
properly cleaned up when GPO (Group Policy Object) policies disabled the
module. The problem occurred because the module constructor didn't
consider GPO policies when determining its initial enabled state.
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- [x] Closes: #41387
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This pull request refactors how context menu registration and
unregistration are handled across several PowerToys modules. The main
improvement is the introduction of a new `UpdateRegistration` helper
method in each module, which centralizes and simplifies the logic for
registering or unregistering context menus when the module is enabled or
disabled. This reduces code duplication and ensures consistent behavior.
**Context menu registration logic refactor:**
* Added a private `UpdateRegistration` method to each of the following
modules to handle context menu registration and unregistration based on
the enabled state:
- `FileLocksmithModule` in `PowerToysModule.cpp`
- `NewModule` in `powertoys_module.cpp`
- `ImageResizerModule` in `dllmain.cpp`
- `PowerRenameModule` in `dllmain.cpp`
* Replaced direct calls to registration/unregistration functions in
`enable`, `disable`, and `init_settings` methods with calls to the new
`UpdateRegistration` method in all affected modules, ensuring consistent
and centralized handling
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These changes improve maintainability and reduce the risk of
inconsistent registration behavior across modules.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Ensure Windows 11 adds the registry entries for the old context menu so
that "Show more options"/classic menu always includes them.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
## Root Cause
WiX-based registration creates persistent Shell Extension entries that:
1. Load DLLs even when the module is disabled
2. Cause cross-OS version conflicts (Win11 loading Win10 extensions)
## Changes Made
1. Removed static Shell Extension registration from PowerToys installer
2. Modified modules to register Shell Extensions during Runner startup
### Modified Modules:
- **PowerRename** (`src/modules/powerrename/dll/dllmain.cpp`)
- **NewPlus**
(`src/modules/NewPlus/NewShellExtensionContextMenu/powertoys_module.cpp`)
- **ImageResizer** (`src/modules/imageresizer/dll/dllmain.cpp`)
- **FileLocksmith**
(`src/modules/FileLocksmith/FileLocksmithExt/PowerToysModule.cpp`)
## Known Migration Issue
**Machine-level installer registry residue**: win10 with machine-level
installers may have residual Shell Extension registry entries that
persist with this change.
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- [x] Closes: #40036
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- [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized
- [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated
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## AI Summary
This pull request refactors how shell extension registry keys are
managed during installation and uninstallation for several PowerToys
modules. The main change is moving registry key cleanup logic for
context menu shell extensions (ImageResizer, FileLocksmith, PowerRename,
NewPlus) from static installer definitions to new custom uninstall
actions, ensuring more reliable removal and future extensibility.
**Installer and Uninstall Refactoring**
* Added new custom actions (`CleanImageResizerRuntimeRegistryCA`,
`CleanFileLocksmithRuntimeRegistryCA`,
`CleanPowerRenameRuntimeRegistryCA`, `CleanNewPlusRuntimeRegistryCA`) to
programmatically clean up registry keys for each shell extension during
uninstall, implemented in `CustomAction.cpp` and exported in
`CustomAction.def`.
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* Registered these custom actions in `Product.wxs` and ensured they run
before file removal during uninstall.
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**Removal of Static Registry Key Definitions**
* Removed static registry key and component definitions for context menu
shell extensions from their respective installer `.wxs` files
(`FileLocksmith.wxs`, `ImageResizer.wxs`, `PowerRename.wxs`,
`NewPlus.wxs`), relying on custom actions for cleanup instead.
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**Project File Update**
* Added `shell_ext_registration.h` to the solution file, possibly for
future shell extension registration logic.
These changes improve uninstall reliability and centralize registry
cleanup logic, making future maintenance and extension of shell
extension registration much simpler.
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Windows Command Palette ("CmdPal") is the next iteration of PowerToys Run. With extensibility at its core, the Command Palette is your one-stop launcher to start _anything_.
By default, CmdPal is bound to <kbd>Win+Alt+Space</kbd>.


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This brings the current preview version of CmdPal into the upstream PowerToys repo. There are still lots of bugs to work out, but it's reached the state we're ready to start sharing it with the world. From here, we can further collaborate with the community on the features that are important, and ensuring that we've got a most robust API to enable developers to build whatever extensions they want.
Most of the built-in PT Run modules have already been ported to CmdPal's extension API. Those include:
* Installed apps
* Shell commands
* File search (powered by the indexer)
* Windows Registry search
* Web search
* Windows Terminal Profiles
* Windows Services
* Windows settings
There are a couple new extensions built-in
* You can now search for packages on `winget` and install them right from the palette. This also powers searching for extensions for the palette
* The calculator has an entirely new implementation. This is currently less feature complete than the original PT Run one - we're looking forward to updating it to be more complete for future ingestion in Windows
* "Bookmarks" allow you to save shortcuts to files, folders, and webpages as top-level commands in the palette.
We've got a bunch of other samples too, in this repo and elsewhere
### PowerToys specific notes
CmdPal will eventually graduate out of PowerToys to live as its own application, which is why it's implemented just a little differently than most other modules. Enabling CmdPal will install its `msix` package.
The CI was minorly changed to support CmdPal version numbers independent of PowerToys itself. It doesn't make sense for us to start CmdPal at v0.90, and in the future, we want to be able to rev CmdPal independently of PT itself.
Closes#3200, closes#3600, closes#7770, closes#34273, closes#36471, closes#20976, closes#14495
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TODOs et al
**Blocking:**
- [ ] Images and descriptions in Settings and OOBE need to be properly defined, as mentioned before
- [ ] Niels is on it
- [x] Doesn't start properly from PowerToys unless the fix PR is merged.
- https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/556 merged
- [x] I seem to lose focus a lot when I press on some limits, like between the search bar and the results.
- This is https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/427
- [x] Turned off an extension like Calculator and it was still working.
- Need to get rid of that toggle, it doesn't do anything currently
- [x] `ListViewModel.<FetchItems>` crash
- Pretty confident that was fixed in https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/553
**Not blocking / improvements:**
- Show the shortcut through settings, as mentioned before, or create a button that would open CmdPalette settings.
- When PowerToys starts, CmdPalette is always shown if enabled. That's weird when just starting PowerToys/ logging in to the computer with PowerToys auto-start activated. I think this should at least be a setting.
- Needing to double press a result for it to do the default action seems quirky. If one is already selected, I think just pressing should be enough for it to do the action.
- This is currently a setting, though we're thinking of changing the setting even more: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/392
- There's no URI extension. Was surprised when typing a URL that it only proposed a web search.
- [x] There's no System commands extension. Was expecting to be able to quickly restart the computer by typing restart but it wasn't there.
- This is in PR https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/452
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* [DSC] Microsoft.PowerToys.Configure module + winget configuration file support
* f: fix for an incorrect directory id reference
* f: update comment
* f: address review comments
* f: file locksmith bug fix
* f: add explorer preview switches in samples
* f: remove debug
* Sign DSC files
* f: implement docs/samples generator
* [ci]Sign FancyZonesEditorCommon.dll
* Sign DSC files in the Generated folder
* f: address review comments
* f: update usable options
* f: add autogenerated sample
* [Installer] Don't use same GUID for different components
* [Installer]Don't remove folders shared by other modules
* Allow configuring PTRun MaximumNumberOfResults
* Remove all settings DSC sample. Just random data
* Allow configuring Hosts Run as Administrator
* Revert "[Installer]Don't remove folders shared by other modules"
This reverts commit 6da3d6cfd5.
* Add all PTRun plugins and Global and keyboard to DSC sample
* Fix issues with context menu modules not disabling
* Fix default enabled values when setting with DSC
* Fix tests regarding default modules in Settings
* Fix merge error
* Restart PowerToys process if we stopped it
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* Analyzers CPP
Changing the warning level from 3 to 4.
change some project files to make them use the warning config in cpp props file.
* Analyzers C++ turn on warning 4706
Change Cpp.Build.props file to enable 4706
fix BugReportTool code to get rid of 4706
* Turn on warning 4100 and fix the code
* Follow c++ core guidelines
* Adapting to PR comments
* Add GPOWrapper headers and C++/WinRT library
* Check GPO before starting utilities
* Show message on GPO having disabled preview panes.
* Don't generate thumbnails if GPO disabled
* Fix FancyZonesEditor unable to recognize GPOWrapper
* Move settings view models to the settings project
* Use GPO to block enabling utilities in Settings
* Hide context menu entries when gpo disables utilities
* Apply gpo policies when enabling PowerToys on runner
* Add version and metadata to dll
* Add GPOWrapper to the installer
* Fix MSBuild errors on WPF apps by using Projection
* Signing
* Add gpo files and publish them
* Add GPO policies to the bug report tool
* Add some documentation for using GPO
* Mention support to actual lowest supported version of Windows
* Move PowerToys to the root of administrative templates tree
* Save policies on Software\Policies\PowerToys
* Support both machine and user scopes
* Fix documentation to reference computer and user scopes
* Mention incompatibility with outlook in gpo
* Set a better folder structure for gpo assets
* Move PDF Handler warning to the description
* Update doc/gpo/README.md
Co-authored-by: Heiko <61519853+htcfreek@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add actual minimum version of PowerToys to gpo files
* Fix identation
* Remove GPOWrapper Readme
* Add Active Directory instructions to doc
Co-authored-by: Heiko <61519853+htcfreek@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add logging for PowerRename
Move call tracer to common/utils/logger
Add logging to both PowerRename dll and PowerRenameUIHost
Add PowerRename to BugReportTool event viewer collection
* Log more errors and exceptions
* Move retrieveing file attibutes to PowerRenameRegex
Move file attributes unit tests to PowerRenameRegexTests
Add file time field to MockPowerRenameItem
* Add file attributes unittests to PowerRenameManagerTests
* Change variable name
* Rearrange function arguments
* Check if file attributes are used only once
* Change variable name LocalTime -> fileTime, date -> time
* Set fileTime as a member of PowerRenameRegEx rather than passing as an argument
* Change function name isFileAttributesUsed() -> isFileTimeUsed()
Check before resetting fileTime
* Fix small bugs
* Fix typos
* Refactor for readability, move free calls to reachable places
* Fix search for area empty bug
searchTerm being empty is not an invalid argument rather it must return OK without any operation
Tests must check if Replace() returns S_OK becuase later it checks its result
* Check return values of method calls in PowerRenameManager
Remove received argments checks from some methods because argument being null or empty string doesnt mean it is invalid or method fails
* Fix formatting. Remove overlooked comment. Fix error message.
* Change HRESULT declarations according to coding style
* Fix unhandled case. Refactor.
* Add boost-regex library
* If enabled use boost lib for regex
Add property `_useBoostLib` to `CPowerRenameRegEx`. If enabled for
replacements with regular expressions the Boost Library is used instead
of the Standard Library.
* Extend signatures to create RegEx with Boost
Extend create and constructor singatures of `CPowerRenameRegEx` with an
option to enable (or disabled, which is default) the Boost Library.
* Verify Lookbehind fails with STD library
To verify that the boost library is disabled as expected, check if a
lookbehind fails.
* Add Unit tests for RegEx with Boost
Add unit tests to verify regex replacement with Boost Library. They are
copied and adapted from the Standard Library tests.
* Improve verify capturing groups test with Boost
It is possible to use a capturing group followed by numbers as
replacement if the group number is enclosed in curly braces.
Added test cases based on the Standard Library tests.
* Add useBoostLib to settings interface
* Get library option from settings object
* Reduce signatures of RegEx by "useBoost"
Remove the parameter added in 19105cf, as it became obsolete.
* Settings: Read useBoostLib from JSON file
* Add UseBoostLib Option to UI
* Boost Lib label states the regex syntax difference
* Fix Regex with Boost Lib tests
- Do not load settings another time in CPowerRenameRegEx ctor
- Set flag correctly in standard library regex tests
* Add "lookbehind" to dictionary
* change Library to lowercase, and also add a comment
As suggested by @enricogior.
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* Change Library to lowercase and add a comment
As suggested by @enricogior.
Co-authored-by: Enrico Giordani <enricogior@users.noreply.github.com>
* Added get_key to powertoysmodule interface
* Replace get_name with get_key
* Implement get_key function in modules
* Make key global constant in each module
* Update settings v1 to use key to load and save files
* Fixed fancyzones and preview pane unit tests
* Removed setings unit test as the case is not covered anymore
* Add constant files for modules and use it to reference module key
* Add constant string files to colorpicker, launcher and shortcut guide
* correct sunction signature in settings helper
* Fix powerpreview merge conflicts
* nit fix with include statement location
* add check for fields in from_json_string
* Updated preview pane tests with correct from_json_string signature
* Correct Image resizer naming
* Roll back changes for adding check for property and version
* Fix image resizer not working
* Added localization code to pipeline and created one LocProject json for Settings
* Fixed typo
* Reordered nuget source
* Moved nuget install to restore step
* Added FZ.rc file to LocProj
* Added FZ resx file and modified rc file
* Fixed file names
* Changed to check folder for LocProject files
* Updated folder
* Changed directory
* Changed to src directory
* Changed language set and name format, removed rc file localization
* Added all projects with resx/resw files
* Added newline to end of file
* Removed nuget source as it is not used
* Updated comments
* Updated keyboard manager to use resx file
* Tweaked resources.resx and added it to project files
* Added comments and added in string table to resx script
* Remove change from bad merge
* Fix syntax error in convert stringtable
* Changed file type to None
* Migrated color picker's resources
* Migrated resources for Microsoft.Launcher
* Migrated resources for fancy zones
* Revert fancyzones changes
* Migrated resources for ImageResizer and modified script to add language specific code
* Added try catch and checks for modification to avoid unnecessary file creation
* Changed tab insertion to 4 spaces to avoid mixed file types in rc file
* Migrated resources for power preview project
* Added LocProject.json file for 5 projects
* added resgen exception check
* Moved non-localizable strings out of resx for powerpreview
* Move out hardcoded strings from dialog box and set them at runtime from string table
* Migrated resources for powerrename
* Added locproj
* Added missing ImageBase extern declaration
* Added build script in UWP UI project since PowerRenameExt is not referenced
* Resolved merge conflicts
* Handle most recently used search/replace strings within settings.
* Check for last modified time of json file and reload it if needed.
* Handle changes in MRU search / replace lists size.
* Improve handling of changes in MRU list size.
* Don't check for last modified time in every getter method. Load only when starting application.
* Add const identifier to getter methods.
* Address PR comments: Add const to reg and json file paths and set them in constructor initializer. Check pushIdx validity. Move implementation to cpp of PowerRenameUI constructor.
* Add error checking when getting values from registry.
* Use JSON data file for storing PowerRename settings instead of registry
* Address PR comments and made several improvements
* Remove WindowsApp.lib dependencies in test app and unit tests
* Revert changes in vcxproj for unit test
* Solve linker warnings generated while linking WindowsApp.lib
* Don't migrate enabled flag. Always read / write from registry.
* Bug Fixes
Fixes include:
* Pass parent HWND to UI so dialog is no longer appearing in top corner all the time
* Fix duplicate entries for PowerRename in context menu for shortcuts
* Fix crashing bug due to telemetry not getting unregistered on unload
* Ensure we show the file extension in the UI even if extensions are hidden in Windows Explorer
* Update PowerRenameExt.cpp
Fix missed line to set parent HWND
* Update icon and add telemetry calls
This change adds the new PowerRename icon and includes telemetry calls
* Ensure string is freed
* Update event naming convention
* Delete PowerRenameDemo.gif
Deleting this gif as I added it with a separate commit with the README.md update for PowerRename