hola, I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this/is aware of what fixes it. e.g., on all the nt/2k/xp machines i've had paradox 7 on the right click context menu is always whited out (you can actually select things but text is not visible) and the icons for the items, e.g., the .db icon, the .ssl icon, etc., don't show up.

Pdox 7 was born when these versions of windows did not exist so i think this can be a bug in the install program which can't associate these file types to Pdox.
Consider also that many extensions that are, for example, parts of a Pdox Table, are NOT associated to Pdox, even if it would make sense, even in the latest versions.

fair enough, but there are registry keys for these items in hkey_classes that specify context menus and icons but they just don't show up. Curious if anyone knows of a "fix" for this?

thanks for the info shores