Guide: How to Manage and Customize Windows 10 Context Menus
Context menus are small menus that open when you right-click an object on your computer’s desktop. In Windows 10, there are a few shortcuts that have context menus, and right-clicking them also opens menus with additional options. You can edit Windows 10’s context menus without third-party software, or you can use third-party software to customize them. ..
Add new shortcuts to the Windows 10 context menu without additional software
To add new program shortcuts to the Windows 10 context menu without any third-party software, you can use the Registry Editor. To open that editor, press the Win key + R to launch Run and then enter regedit in the text box.
To add a new key, right-click on the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshell key and select New > Key. Name the new key Desktop Context Menu and click OK. Double-click on Desktop Context Menu to open the context menu options. Now you can add new commands to the context menu by right-clicking on an existing command and selecting Add to Context Menu. To remove a command from the context menu, right-click on it and select Remove from Context Menu. ..
To set up a new key for a software shortcut, select the shell on the left and right-click an empty space on the right to open a context menu. Then click New> Key in the menu and enter the title of the program as the key title. For example, in the shot below, the Google Chrome context menu shortcut opens; so the key is titled Chrome. ..
New> Key: “MyNewKey”
Open the Edit String window shown below. In the Target text box, enter the path or location of the software and the shortcut to the context menu will open in the Value data text box. The path is in the Target text box, and you can copy and paste it into the Edit String window with Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V.
When you have entered the path to the software, press OK to close the Edit String window. Close the Registry Editor window and right-click on the Windows 10 desktop to open the context menu in the snapshot directly below. It now contains the software shortcut you added in the registry, and you can access it from that menu. ..
You can add web pages to the context menu using the Registry Editor in much the same way, but you need to have shortcuts for them in Windows first. So for that you need to add a page shortcut to the desktop using your browser. Then right-click the shortcut on the website desktop, select Properties, and copy and paste the target path into the Value data text box in the Edit String window. You can then delete the website shortcut to the Recycle Bin or move it from the desktop.
Add new shortcuts and options to the Windows 10 context menus with software
Windows 10 offers a number of ways to customize its context menus, but it can be faster to use third-party software. Right click on Extender V2, which you can install from this page, and press the Download file button to save a compressed folder. Press the Extract All button in File Explorer to extract the folder to a new location, then open the window below. ..
With Extender 2, you can add new options to the shortcut menus of the desktop, disk, file / folder, and My Computer icon. Note that you cannot add software and document shortcuts to those context menus with this package. The shortcuts you can add to the menus with this program are system tools, such as Disk Cleanup.
To add a ShutDown option to the Windows 10 desktop context menu, click Desktop and then click the Shutdown check box. Hit Apply button confirm. Then right-click on the desktop to open a context menu that now includes the Shut Down PC option. ..
Extender 2 lets you add new options to the shortcut menus for files and folders. From there, you can select Admin Command Prompt to open the folder in the command prompt. ..
One thing to note is that if you select the My Computer options in Extender v2, they will not be added to the This PC context menu in Windows 10. ..
Context Menu Editor is a program that allows you to add software and document shortcuts to the context menus of Windows 10. Press File Download button on this page to save the compressed folder. Extract that zipped folder using Explorer as before and click Context Menu 1.1 to open the window below. Note that you have to right-click on Context Menu 1.1 and select Run as administrator to run it.
To add a website, press Browse button next to the URL text box to select it. Click on the set button to confirm the selection, then open the desktop context menu. It contains the website you have selected to add with the context menu editor. ..
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The Delete tab in Context Menu Editor also has a handy list of context menu items you can delete as below. Click on a shortcut there and press Delete to remove it from the context menu.
Adding additional shortcuts to the context menus in Windows 10 can help you remove them from the desktop, start menu, and taskbar. ..
How to Manage and Customize Windows 10 Context Menus: benefits
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This guide will show you how to customize the Windows 10 context menus, so that you can access the tools and features you need quickly and easily. ..
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