Windows 10 1909 File Explorer Search issue

The Right-click Context Menu that appears when the search box does not have focus is clearly the main Explorer window System Menu which is normally accessible via ALT+SPACE. When the Search Box does have keyboard input focus, a right-click does not produce a context menu at all!

Please explain?

Yep, this is a bug as seen here https://twitter.com/WithinRafael/status/1222250069472108544. You'll have to give the fake textbox focus (via keyboard or left-click) before it will show the context menu.

I'll file bugs and try to push the Shell team to fix it, but I'll need your help! File bugs in Feedback Hub, tweet @WindowsInsider @jenmsft @brandonleblanc, keep making noise here, etc.

I documented some of the remaining bugs in this thread https://twitter.com/WithinRafael/status/1222244770698809345

It's not likely we'll see any further changes until the next release.

Thanks Rafael.

It is great to have search functionality working again within Explorer.

From your Twitter:

• Microsoft cumulative update KB4532695 finally fixes some search issues in File Explorer. For starters, you can now use the thing. And--hope you're sitting down--you can left AND right click inside the box too.

From Microsoft Support:

• Updates an issue that prevents File Explorer's Search Bar from pasting clipboard content using the right mouse button (right-click).

The Right-click Context Menu that appears when the search box does not have focus is clearly the main Explorer window System Menu which is normally accessible via ALT+SPACE. When the Search Box does have keyboard input focus, a right-click does not produce a context menu at all!

Please explain?

I documented some of the remaining bugs in this thread https://twitter.com/WithinRafael/status/1222244770698809345

It's not likely we'll see any further changes until the next release.

You need to left-click in the search box (you should see the blinking caret) before you right-click + paste. Otherwise it doesn't work and you get the System restore/resize options.

I do that, and I see the blinking cursor:

Taking a screenshot unfortunately does not include the mouse pointer.

However, if I left-click the search box first, then I get no popup menu at all when I right-click, even when the search box has input focus.

It does appear as though KB4532695 has resolved the primary Explorer Search Box issue. But this problem of the context menu not showing correctly on right-click or not at all, while not breaking the search functionality, does present a usability problem that should not exist.

One would expect at the very least that when a user performs a right-click on the search box that it would receive input focus and then immediately display the appropriate context menu with Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select All commands.

In the above Windows 7 Screenshots (from WMWare Workstation), it can clearly be seen that the main file list has input focus, and that the context menu displays immediately upon right-clicking the search box, without the requirement of first left-clicking.

This is I think also the search box behavior expected from Windows 10 users.

You need to left-click in the search box (you should see the blinking caret) before you right-click + paste. Otherwise it doesn't work and you get the System restore/resize options.