Are popup menus in your Vista PC appearing at the wrong side all of a sudden? For example, when you right-click a file, the context menu may appear on the left hand side, rather than on the right-hand side (default). The same may happen when you open Windows Explorer and click on the File menu.
This has to do with a Tablet PC setting which governs how the menu items are displayed. To restore the popup menu to the right-hand side, use these steps.
Click Start, type Tablet PC Settings
Click Tablet PC Settings link from the Start menu search results
In the Tablet PC Settings dialog, under Handedness, select Left-handed.
When this option is selected, the popup menus appear on your right-hand side, which is the default setting. One exception is that when there is not enough screen real estate available on the right hand side to display the popup menu, Windows displays the menu on the left hand side automatically.
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Thank you very much.
(My case happened after running windows update too.)
Thank you very much. This solution also applies to Windows 7, again after running Windows Update.
My question (which probably doesn’t have an answer) is why a Windows Update would switch the alignment of the menus, and then why this setting is so obscure to find? I never would have thought to look in the Tablet PC Settings!
Thanks you very much! :)