Questions tagged [context-menu]
Context menu is a menu which is usually invisible and only appears when you click any mouse button (usually it's right mouse button), providing relevant actions to the item you clicked on.
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Remove "Set as desktop background" from Windows context menu [duplicate]
When I right click an image file in Windows, one of the context menu options is "Set as desktop background". I know some entries can be hidden with registry edits, so I'd like to know if it's possible ...
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Where's my Open-With gVim context menu option in Windows 7?
I have gVim installed. Under Vista and XP, this offered me an addition to either the object context menu of "Edit with gVim", or an addtion to the "Open With" context menu of "gVim". This would let ...
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How to diagnose right-click menu slowness?
Is there a way to find specifically what's causing Windows 7 explorer slowness, like right-click menu delay and even opening new explorer windows/drives/folders?
Slowness when opening new explorer ...
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Disable Adobe AcroTray.exe from starting at boot
The problem I am having is that whatever I do or disable I cannot stop AcroTray.exe from Adobe starting at boot and doing... whatever it is that it is doing, until it is stopped manually via task ...
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Add to ZIP option in context menu for WinRAR
With WinRAR installed, by default, your context menu (Right-click on file) says something like "Add directory to *.rar archive".
It's very handy but not cooperating with other systems that handle zip,...
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Add Right-Click Save as PDF in Windows Explorer
I'm looking for a way to be able to add some options to the Right Click Context menu in Windows 7. I really don't have much experience in programming much but I am very eager and willing to learn.
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Adding Powershell command to right click menu both on and in a folder
There are some solution online but most of them just add the command when you right click on the folder. I've find a solution (which work both) for Run As Administrator here. But it works just for ...
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Why won't Excel 2013 work as an "Open With..." program in Windows 7?
I just recently uninstalled Office 2010 32-bit and installed Office 2013 64-bit on my computer. I was sent some text files that are tab-delimited, so I want to open them with Excel.
I am trying to ...
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Can't add new items to Windows 7 "new" context menu
I'm trying to add a new item for creating a new .lua script in the "new" context menu.
I tried following this guide but it just doesn't show up on the context menu at all. I also tried doing it ...
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How to remove the "3D print with 3D Builder" context menu entry in Windows 10?
In Windows 10's Anniversary Update, there is a new "3D print with 3D Builder" entry in the context menu of some image file types.
I tried to uninstall the 3D Builder app, but it doesn't remove the ...
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Add item to "New" context menu in Windows 8
I would like to add an empty markdown file to the "New" context menu in Windows 8. I see at least two solutions to this problem, but neither of them work for me.
Is this possible? FWIW, a markdown ...
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How to add more things to the Power User (Win-X) menu?
How can I add more things to the menu that appears when I press the Windows key and X at the same time?
Searching through the web I found this website, but what's there doesn't work.
Perhaps this ...
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Do a context menu action for multiple selected files in the Windows Explorer
I'd like to create a Windows Explorer context menu action for multiple selected files.
I created a key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\MyAction\command with a string value
C:\python37\python.exe "c:\...
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Right click using keyboard in Mac OS X
How can I do a right-click using the keyboard in Mac OS X Snow Leopard using the Logitech Wave Keyboard?
The keyboard has keys as Fn + PrintScreen, but it only works in Windows, not Mac OS X.
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How to remove "Add to Windows Media Player list" from context menu
When Windows Media Player is the default player in Windows, the right-click context menu for certain music files includes an item called "Add to Windows Media Player list". This is par-for-the-course ...
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WinRAR Context menu and file type detection of Windows
So far I know Windows display context menu based on the file extension rather than the file type. I just tested with empty text file with mp3 extension with winamp and the result is below:
The same ...
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In the Windows Registry, what is the ProgrammaticAccessOnly string value and how does it work?
This is a follow-up question from this one. As demonstrated by that answer, ProgrammaticAccessOnly can be used to hide certain context menu items without disabling their underlying or related ...
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Windows 7 - Add shell command for .png file
On Windows XP, you could go to Folder Options - File Types, select PNG, create a new action, such as this
Action: Crush
Application: "F:\Programs\PNGCrush\crush.bat" "%1"
So you can right click on a ...
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Unlocker howto?! doesn't do anything
in an answer to a previous question another user recommended a tool to me, Unlocker. Its original homepage is offline, but there are plenty of websites which offer version 1.9.0 which I downloaded ...
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Editing the context menus for folders and files in Windows XP
In Windows XP, with SP 2, is there a way to make changes to the right-click menus for folders and files--e.g., to add, delete, or reorder items and dividing lines?
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Add an item to the 'send to' menu for ALL users (winxp)
How to add an item to the 'send to' menu for ALL users (winxp)
We want to have a link to a debug log viewer available to all users on a server i'm building.
Quite simple to add it to one user (start->...
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Windows 7 Context Menu for Folders - *IF* folder contains certain filetypes
I would like to add an entry to the context menu for folders, but only have it show in the context menu IF the folder in question contains files of a certain type (in this case, only if the folder ...
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Menu has black borders after using HDMI in Windows 10
This has happened several times, and it's always after connecting to a TV through HDMI to do a presentation. It happens after disconnecting from the HDMI.
The menu is cropped to the right and bottom, ...
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Is it possible to easily find the Command Prompt equivalent of a context menu item?
For example, Comodo Internet Security has added two items to my right-click menu, "Scan with Comodo" and "Run in Comodo Container." I don't particularly want both of them to be there clogging up my ...
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How to show context menu on mouse up instead of mouse down?
By default, on Mac OS, the context menu, as well as application menu (top bar menu items), show up right as the right mouse button (or ctrl + click) is pressed down, and the option under the cursor ...
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Right-click on taskbar's icon and slabs in start will not open context menu on windows 10
I just upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and found out that when I right-click icons on taskbar for unpin them nothing happened after click. I though it was just delay so I waited few minutes ...
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Firefox taskbar options are gone in Windows 10, how to fix?
I have the Mozilla Firefox pinned to taskbar in Windows 10. Right-clicking the taskbar icon should bring some options like:
Open new tab
Open new window
New private window
Suddenly, one day, I ...
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OS X Snow Leopard: Finder automator item for creating a new text file
how can I create a Finder automaton item that appears in 'Services' for creating a new text file inside a file folder? I use TextMate, so better if the solution is editor-agnostic (rather than using ...
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Only "New Folder" in context menu in the Public folder on Windows 7
The Public folder in Windows 7 (C:\Users\Public) can be written to without being an Administrator, but why doesn't the "New" context menu display options such as New Text Document?
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Windows Powershell: Executing commands via the context menu?
I'm using kramdown to convert my markdown-formatted source files into html. The command I've been using is:
kramdown %filename | Out-Clipboard
(Out-Clipboard is from the fantastic PSCX. This means ...
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How to identify the cause of a crash in the context menu
When I right-click on a file in an open-dialog it makes the underlying application crash "once-in-a-while". This happens in many applications such as Total Commander and Visual Studio . The ...
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New Windows 8 context menu: official name and documentation?
Windows 8 has got a new handy context menu which is invoked by pressing Windows + X or by right-clicking the lower-left corner of the desktop:
Strangely enough, it's practically impossible to find ...
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Firefox keyboard shortcuts to menu items / add-on functions
At the moment I'm using context menus a lot to access commands in Firefox, but I would like to replace this repetitive clicking and searching with keyboard shortcuts for the common tasks that I ...
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Software - Right click context menu not working
The context menus are not showing when I right click on my laptop. Does anyone know how to enable it please? I'm running Windows7. I've tried holding down the right key for some time and I've added ...
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Always show 'Open With' in right-click context menu on Windows 10
Sometimes, Windows 10 will not show the 'Open With' sub-menu in the right-click context menu for some file types, and sometimes when I select multiple files of a specific type.
Is there any way to ...
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Add a "Right-click on a .WAV file, Convert to MP3" extension to Explorer
I created a key in the Windows registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Convert to MP3\command
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"D:\tools\ffmpeg.exe" -i "%1" -acodec libmp3lame -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 256k "%1.mp3"
It works, ...
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How to add an “open in new excel” in windows file explorer context menu?
I've asked a similar question before, about How to add a "duplicate this folder" in windows file explorer context menu? .
Similarly, is there an easy way, to add an item to windows explorer'...
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Show context-menu on mouse down event
On Linux (Fedora 24, MATE desktop), when I right-click something, the context-menu shows up right after I press the mouse button. I then keep holding it, move the pointer over to the option I want and ...
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Custom Windows context menu shell command targetting documents: *.docx and *.pdf
Currently I have a custom command for moving a selected file(s) to the correct cloud storage folder. I do this using the following (executed as a .reg file):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[...
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"Open PowerShell window here" File Explorer context-menu command breaks with folder names with apostrophes (single quotes)
In Windows 10, Shift-right-clicking on a folder or in the background in File Explorer adds an "OpenPowerShell window here" command to the context menu.
However, the command used to open the ...
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Why can't I "open command window here" inside a Library?
I'm talking about the extra options you get with left Shift + right click.
If you can open a cmd window elsewhere, then cd to a library directory, why can't you open the directory in a library?
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any freeware program for adding/editing PATH from context menu [closed]
So many times, I would like to add a directory to the PATH in windows. And I think the GUI for it must be the must stupid GUI ever developed in windows, yet it's there since ages, in an unmodified ...
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Cygwin: Run a script in mintty/bash
Initially asked on SO.com, but I closed it. I think it better fits SU.com. Please tell me if it is also not the right place.
I want to add a context menu to a .sh file to run it in cygwin.
I tried ...
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Any new idea to force Windows 11 Explorer use classic context menu?
In Windows 11 Explorer the context menu is changed to a new minimalistic one, however I like to use the more comprehensive old context menu as I put some customized entries there.
There were some ...
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Remove "Convert to Adobe PDF" from context menu
When I right click a .docx file in Windows' File Explorer, there's an entry 'Convert to Adobe PDF' in the context menu. I'd like to remove the entry, but keep Adobe Acrobat installed.
What I've tried:
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How can I add an entry in the context menu in Windows Explorer only for files larger than some threshold?
How can I add an option in the context menu in Windows Explorer only for files larger than some threshold?
For example, when adding an entry in the context menu in Windows Explorer to split files by ...
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'Open command window here' does not appear in context menu
I've encountered yet another one of Microsoft's pull-the-rug-from-under-your-feet tricks.
This time, the option Open command window here has disappeared from the context menu (displayed by shift + ...
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How to run a poweshell script from the context menu (on audio file)?
I did try this test.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\audio\shell\ChunkAudio]@="chunk audio (5 min)""Icon"="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\...
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Run a program from context menu with admin priveledges (vista UAC)
I have been using Notepad2 lately, great util and i added it to the context menu hence i can click on a file and say Notepad2 and it edits it .. but it loads notepad2 without admin privs so i can't ...
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How to use the right click context menu to send files to new folder?
Here is my issue:
I'm in a folder full of different files. I see a number of files I'd like to group together. I can select them, "right click -> send to -> list of programs/operations"...
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