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Issue

OneDrive right-clicks context menus may fail to appear in Windows File Explorer if UAC is disabled or WinRAR is installed.

The OneDrive entries missing from the Explorer right-click menu

 

At times these icons weren’t showing correctly in the Win32 Explorer.exe Shell:

Context menu icons rendering incorrectly in the Explorer shell

Solution#1

If installed, go into WinRAR and turn off ‘Integrate WinRAR into Shell‘ via the ‘Integration‘ options. Otherwise, try to identify other applications in the context menu that could be causing a similar issue.

 

The WinRAR integration option that causes the conflict

Solution#2

UAC may be turned off on this machine. You will never see these options if you don’t enable them again, even under the local administrator account.

A User Account Control prompt raised from the OneNote right-click entry

 

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