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Some special icons (like user folder on desktop) can't be changed, apparently, because no "properties" menu item appear in right-click context menu. Is there some way or tool to achieve this?

I've searched for this but can't find an answer. What I'm trying to do is remove "Create Shortcut" from the context (right click) menu of Explorer. Sometimes when I want to delete a file I hit this by mistake and then have to delete the file and the shortcut. I have found programs to delete...

Hello, I have read several threads in different forums regarding different types of issues with right clicking in Win 7 x64. My issue is when right clicking on folders/files within the Window Explorer. Below is my set up: Win 7 Ultimate (64) - SP1 Build 7601 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 (2.47Ghz...

Hi everyone. I have a weird problem that I cannot find a previous poster has had... When I try to delete a file, either by choosing the "delete" option on the context menu or by pressing the "delete" key with the file selected, it take between something like 20 to 60 seconds to show me the...

Setup: Windows 7 Home premium (64bit) I have need of creating many windows 7 shortcuts to a pile of video files. This is the first of what will likely be many occasions . I don't know any of the windows based scripting languages but do program in perl somewhat. So my first hope is someone may...

This has been a big problem for me. I have a new dell inspiron that i had to install a new hard drive in, factory restored setting, everything is new, I have not changed a thing but I cannot right click. I have changed the settings for the button, got into the registry editor, could not...

My OS is 32bit Win7 Pro. In Windows Explorer, when you right click a file, a drop down menu opens showing options to choose. I'd like to add another option on that menu. How do you do that? (It was easy in WinXP.) Please let me know if this request is more appropriate in another forum. Thanks.

I'm trying to get a good Win XP routine to work in my new Win7 Pro 32-bit OS. I need to open a document with an application in a non-conventional way. I'm encountering two problems. In Win XP you could specify one or more applications to open a file type (i.e., a file of certain extension)...

Hi, I am trying to register a shell context menu dll in Windows7. For that it needed explorer to be restarted. I use inno setup(installer script) and in that script I tried to restart the explorer as an Administrator. 1. Stop Explorer 2. Register the DLL 3. Start Explorer. When the...

I want to add some options to the right click menu. For instance, when I right-click a Haskell (.hs) file, I want to have an option "Compile with GHC". Following some instructions I found online, I went into regedit, and under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.hs, I added shell\Compile with GHC\command...

Okay, I'm running windows 7. I'm trying to open up a presentation file from office 2010, but I need to convert it first. On my other computer I can simply double click the item or just right click and click on "save as" and save it as a different powerpoint format. This computer doesn't have...

Windows 7 lets you change desktop icons size the usual way from the 3 predefined sizes (Small, Medium, Large) Medium is the default size. 1. Right click on an free area of the desktop 2. Select View on the context menu 3. Select Small Icons (if you want them smaller than the default size) If...

I would like to add a new item for Directories to the WinExplorer context menu. In former WInXP I simply add the following Registry entry: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\OpenCmdPrompt\command] @="D:\\specialprog\\batchlog \"%1\"" However: This command is not recognized (for normal...

Hi all, I'm running into three issues which I'm guessing are related -- 1) Windows 7 seems to protect certain folder trees differently than others. In particular, the Program Files tree. If I try to copy a file to a folder in that tree or rename a file in one of the folders, I get a dialog...

hello i followed after this blog and it didn't help much i still dont have premissions to the entire computer ever since i installed win7 ultimate why da hell is that??? i added this nice tool and it helped but its only for files and folders. i want to do it for entire partition why da hell...

Hi, When i click on a specific spot near the bottom left-hand side of my screen, right-click options appear for no reason and they aren't linked to any program. (i can keep clicking at the spot the clicking close and nothing happens. The options will disppear and then reappear if i click on the...

I had to do a reinstall because the reg became corrupt with entries not owned by me and I couldn't change them back - tried everything I could find on the subject. ANYWAY - now I am missing both the PIN TO functions in the rt clk context menus In fact, there is nothing on my Start Menu (left)...

With vista, I right clicked the windows icon at the lower left and was able to explore all of my files. Now all I see is properties and open window explorer. How do I add "explore my files"? Thanks. Gary

Link Removed This also works with XP and Vista.

Open the "Registry Editor" (Start (Orb), Run and type in regedit and click ok or press enter.) Navigate to and expand each the following: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers (This is where programs attach to the right click menu.) Now, you simply delete the keys you do not...