context menu

I am posting my problem here because I've made the jump from Windows 10 to 11, but I've had this problem when I was running Windows 10 also. My problem is I'll have to right click several times on a file in Windows explorer in order for the context menu to stay on long enough for me to choose a...

so when i tried right clicking on something like desktop, file, other. this right click menu is such an pain so i decided to look up an tutorial on how to get the old right click menu on windows 11 and it used to work but today it dosent work now. so i kept trying and trying and nothing works so...

Windows 11 brings refinement to contextual file operations in the right-click context menu and share dialog. These are extensible by apps, including unpackaged Win32 apps. The context menu is one of the most popular and useful shell extensions. If you are already in File Explorer or on the...

Windows 11 brings refinement to contextual file operations in the right-click context menu and share dialog. These are extensible by apps, including unpackaged Win32 apps. The context menu is one of the most popular and useful shell extensions. If you are already in File Explorer or on the...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.71 to everyone in the Dev Channel! Changes and Improvements We’re introducing a new entertainment widget! The entertainment widget allows you to see new and featured movie titles available in the Microsoft...

I was wondering how I can edit my context menu

When I right click a desk top icon, a menu pops up that is too big for my screen. Most of the options are of no interest to me. Can I edit this pop up?

The Edge-icon is missing in the pdf-contextmenu , it should be next to ( Open with) Microsoft Edge . After the upgrade to 2004 its still gone ............how to repair , any idea ? Its a white spot now , how to get this icon back again...........

Yes, I could change the file association via Win GUI or use some third party tools. However I prefer to do this directly in Registry by a *.reg file (in Win 7 64bit). How can I set my editor "D:\tools\editor\myeditor22.exe" as default editor when double clicking on a file with *.txt extension...

This is a weird problem. I am running Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit on a Lenovo laptop that has 2.3 GHZ Intel I5 processor. I am currently running version 1809 of Windows. For some reason when I went to start the computer for the first time in a couple of weeks the desktop came up with icons that...

I copied a folder tree from another computer in LAN onto my local computer. After some work I want to delete this folder tree on my local computer. When I right-click in File Explorer on the top node and select "delete" then a popup tells me: "You need to provide administrator permissions"...

Hello everybody, I have been having this issue for quite some time now, basically what happens is that when I hover over the "New" drop down menu, on the right click pop up on the desktop, it takes it a couple of seconds to show everything, while in the beginning it was pretty immediate. Any...

How can I put the FORMAT command in the Explorer context menu. I would like to right click on CD drive listed in explorer and select FORMAT from the list that appears. Thanks for and assistance in advance. larryo

In this tutorial I will be showing how to add new file types to the 'New' submenu on the context menu. The context menu, if you're not familiar with it, is the menu that shows up when you right click on an empty area on the desktop or within the file explorer. Context Menu...

When I visited one of my friends with a Windows XP computer, he had Windows Vista games and a context menu option called Run Vista Compatible when right-clicking on an .exe-file. Where can I get that?

I wanted to add Macro-enabled workbook to the New context menu in Windows. I got the idea of creating a "NullFile" string value from this page: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xlsm\Excel.SheetMacroEnabled.12\ShellNew "NullFile"="" But it doesn't work. Nor does using a string value of...

win10 pro how do I get more chioses in my menu?? I r clic desktop select NEW the only option is folder how do I get shotcut and other options in this menu?

Especially when I right click a file. I get the rotating circle and sometimes timeout before the context menu opens. Sometimes I think there is something going on in background, but task manager doesn't show anything. Is there a utility that can showerverything running? I've been toold tm...

hi, Sorry for the confusing title. I could not make it easier to understand. Well, suppose there are two programs installed in my pc to open PDF file. (adobe and foxit) Foxit is set as default program to open pdf files. Now I want to open pdf file with adobe but I dont want to use "open with"...

What is a context menu and can I change it?