Right-Click not working in Taskbar

Welcome to another episode of "The Computer Illiterate Electrical Engineer"...

Running W10 Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.959) on a Toshiba Satellite A665-S6086.

I just noticed the right click button on my touchpad will not allow me to access menus for taskbar icons. I just happened to be cleaning up my taskbar a bit and had not notice this previously.

I did the generally accepted "low hanging fruit" troubleshooting, i.e. Restart Windows Explorer, Uninstall and reinstall drivers, etc. to no avail.

I'm sure it's a simple fix but none of the 4-5 methods I found seemed to work and in theory, and judging by the mouse and touchpad settings currently enabled, it should work.

Cast said:

That error does not only appear in those editions also in 18 ... Clean the registry or windows clean command

Appreciate the response. I uninstalled some programs that were no longer required and ran a full scrub of the registry to no avail. Also ran the disk cleanup as well.

Right click brings up a menu for everything except for taskbar icons.

Ztruker said:

Same problem fixed here in 2019: Right-click menu doesn't come up for taskbar icons ... ???

See this tutorial by Shawn Brink:

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

Right. That came up as a possible solution. Not sure I am that put out by having to Shift + Right Click if it means repairing Windows. Obviously I'd like to just be able to Right Click but there are worse issues to contend with than this.

Thank you for the response.