I've used TFS Power Tools on a daily basis for several months. I particularly depend on Windows Shell Extension.
For about a week now, two issues have come up:
Every time I enter a directory under TFS control, I have to right-click twice to see the TFS context menu
My pretty TFS Green indicators on files/folders are gone:
I've downloaded and reinstalled the Power Tools, but I still have these two issues.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Dave gave me the answer via link. Just in case that link goes bad, here is the answer:
Restart the machine or kill explorer.exe and restart it
As far as the delay issue is concerned, I'm not experiencing that this morning; which is odd. I question that the solution for the overlay was also the solution for the right-clicking.
Everything's back to normal now so I am good to go.
The missing green icons can be explained here. It is because Windows has a limit of overlay icons it supports. The details on how to fix it are in that blog post.
How long are you waiting after entering a folder before you perform the first Right Click? It sometimes takes a while for the TfsComProviderSvr.exe
to check if the local folder is a workspace and register the shell extension.
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