Questions tagged [shell-extensions]
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How to list Explorer extensions and disable them?
I have reason to believe that I may have malware on my system in the form of an Explorer extension. I suspect this because Procmon shows that Explorer.exe keeps re-writing a certain Registry key that ...
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Looking for MD5 utility that integrates to Windows [duplicate]
Is there any small utility that integrates with the Windows shell and computes md5 of files on demand? I'm too lazy to launch the command line.
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Does Windows 8 Explorer have a FolderSize column (or restore the column-handler API)?
One of the biggest complaints about Windows Vista (and 7) was that it removed the API that allows developers to create column-handlers, and as such, useful programs like Folder Size can no longer ...
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Is there a windows program that will log a reason for copying a file to a folder?
Like a shell extension or something so that when I or a co-worker copy over a file we know why we copied it.
Something like source control for binary files, but totally non-restrictive.
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Editor for Windows Explorer's context menu
Does anyone know of a good application for editing the context menu's used by Windows explorer in Vista?
Reasons for wanting one:
When I right click on a file, I get a very long list of things I can ...
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Add menu items to SHIFT + right click menu on Windows
The point is to add right click menu items only for Shift+Right click. Don't even bother: regular right click is all over the web, but I want to add some items that wouldn't clutter my right click.
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How to assign a icon for "Copy/Cut/Paste/Delete" Windows default context menu items?
Under Windows 8/8.1 x64, I would like to assign a custom icon for the default Windows context menu items such as Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete, Undo, Redo and Send To items, which by default has any icon:
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What is the purpose of the .ZFSendToTarget extension?
I learned about this from watching a video about some "Tech Support" scam (watch the last 10 minutes if you want a good laugh) where one of the tactics used by the scammer is getting the victim to ...
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FileZilla can't drag and drop to Windows Explorer
When I try to drag and drop to my desktop or any folder outside of FileZilla, I get an error:
Could not determine the target of the Drag&Drop operation. Either the shell extension is not ...
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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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Windows XP -"Open terminal here" shell extension?
I remember in Ubuntu, I think it was Gnome, Nautilus had this option in the right-click context menu that allowed you to open a terminal whose working dir was the dir you were visiting in Nautilus, ...
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In HKCR, what is difference between Directory and Folder in context menu config
Following up on this question over at SO (How do I open cmd window in specific location?) I'm looking for an effective way to add the Open Command Prompt Here shortcut to a context menu. Various ...
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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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What is Windows Enhanced Storage?
I got an strange icon overlay on my USB stick drive:
In my previous question I could identify it's EhStorShell.dll drawing that overlay there (Thanks!). The dll has the description Windows Enhanced ...
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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
with:
"D:\tools\ffmpeg.exe" -i "%1" -acodec libmp3lame -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 256k "%1.mp3"
It works, ...
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How can I install filezilla's shell extension?
I am trying to drag&drop a file from filezilla to some Windows program. I get this filezilla message:
How can I install filezilla's shell extension?
I use filezilla on Windows 10 Enterprise.
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Why does my static shortcut menu handler overwrite the Windows 10 Jumplist behaviour?
I recently wanted to add a new command menu to my right click menu to have the possibility to securely delete files and directories using Sysinternals SDelete.
Using the MSDN documentation and Regedit ...