Right click -> Properties on a SSD/HDD takes me to system properties?

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Sarra

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I wanted to TRIM my SSD's, as I just removed a lot of old junk, installed some new games, new game mods, and in general, moved stuff around.

I went to my drives, and right clicked my windows drive, and the System Properties popped up, instead of the smaller multi-tabbed drive properties window. wtf

So, I closed the window and tried a different drive. C:, D:, E:, and F: (SSD with windows, laptop drive, 2 TB HDD, and a games SSD) all do the same thing, Windows System Properties opens instead of the drive properties window. My last drive, G:, does open the drive's properties window.

WTF is going on here?

Edit: Sorry, I forgot the important bits: Windows 8.1, currently patched up for the OS.
 
Sarra said:
I wanted to TRIM my SSD's, as I just removed a lot of old junk, installed some new games, new game mods, and in general, moved stuff around.

I went to my drives, and right clicked my windows drive, and the System Properties popped up, instead of the smaller multi-tabbed drive properties window. wtf

So, I closed the window and tried a different drive. C:, D:, E:, and F: (SSD with windows, laptop drive, 2 TB HDD, and a games SSD) all do the same thing, Windows System Properties opens instead of the drive properties window. My last drive, G:, does open the drive's properties window.

WTF is going on here?

Edit: Sorry, I forgot the important bits: Windows 8.1, currently patched up for the OS.
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Sounds like a registry corruption. You of course used a 'cleaning tool' and 'repaired' your registry, right? :D
 
I've seen this happen before where the right click menu defaults to the wrong tab, but never to the wrong window.
 
Sarra said:
I wanted to TRIM my SSD's, as I just removed a lot of old junk, installed some new games, new game mods, and in general, moved stuff around.

I went to my drives, and right clicked my windows drive, and the System Properties popped up, instead of the smaller multi-tabbed drive properties window. wtf

So, I closed the window and tried a different drive. C:, D:, E:, and F: (SSD with windows, laptop drive, 2 TB HDD, and a games SSD) all do the same thing, Windows System Properties opens instead of the drive properties window. My last drive, G:, does open the drive's properties window.

WTF is going on here?

Edit: Sorry, I forgot the important bits: Windows 8.1, currently patched up for the OS.
Click to expand...

Make sure you left click the drive first and then see what happens.
 
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