right click menu

[gmrad]

How can one change (delete old or add new) options that appear on a right
click of the mouse? I am mostly interested in the New menu.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

There are several ways. Here's one.
Use TweakUI
Templates
[[When you right click and select the New menu, certain files can be created
automatically. This list allows you to delete certain types as well as
create new types.]]

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Tweak UI
TweakUI.exe

Tweak UI for Windows XP Guide
http://www.winxpsolution.com/Tweakuixppro.aspx

 

[gmrad]

Nothing helped. I must add that I also experimented with another type of
file - added tex file but with no success too. They worked OK with html file
still.
BTW, if I use MPT for Windows XP how can I create a template for new type of
document?

There are several ways. Here's one.
Use TweakUI
Templates
[[When you right click and select the New menu, certain files can be created
automatically. This list allows you to delete certain types as well as
create new types.]]

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Tweak UI
TweakUI.exe

Tweak UI for Windows XP Guide
http://www.winxpsolution.com/Tweakuixppro.aspx



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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

How can one change (delete old or add new) options that appear on a
right click of the mouse? I am mostly interested in the New menu.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Customize the right click context menus
http://www.subvers.com/technobabble/html/tweaks/context-menus.htm

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I have no idea where I got this one.

[[Context Menu - Customizing Windows Explorer Context menu (right click menu
in windows explorer)

Ever wondered how does the right click menu (which is actually a context
menu) work? For example, when I right click in windows explorer, I see an
option which says "open command window here". This is seen because you have
following entries in the registry.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd]
@="Open Command Window Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd\command]
@="C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /k cd "%1""

If You have never used a tweaking utility and have newly installed Windows
XP, You would not see this option. You would have to navigate to
[[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive] go and create two subkeys ("cmd" and within that
"command" and would have to put the text "Open Command Window Here" without
quotes in default string value of "cmd" key and the text
"C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /k CD"%1"" without quotes in default string
value of command key). After this You need to REBOOT for these changes to
take effect.
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Context Menus (Right Click) - Deleting entries

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

You can also go to a specific File extension (example:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew) and right click on the ShellNew key and
select Delete, if the item shows up in the New context menu.

Expand the above branch and look through the sub-keys. Locate the one that
corresponds to the entry you wish to remove and right click that sub-key and
select Edit.

You may wish to right click the desired sub-key and select Export. This will
create a REG file that you can double click to re-import the information, if
you find out you deleted the wrong one, or want it back.]]
=======================

Stolen from Ramesh - Microsoft MVP ;-)
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/

[[Depends where on the right click menu:

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Customizing Right-Click Menu Options in Windows
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html

ContextEdit lets you control which items appear on your context menu
(right-click) in Windows Explorer.

Add, Modify, Disable, Delete Context Menu Listings (Line 23)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm ]]


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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

Nothing helped. I must add that I also experimented with another type
of file - added tex file but with no success too. They worked OK with
html file still.
BTW, if I use MPT for Windows XP how can I create a template for new
type of document?

There are several ways. Here's one.
Use TweakUI
Templates
[[When you right click and select the New menu, certain files can be
created automatically. This list allows you to delete certain types
as well as create new types.]]

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Tweak UI
TweakUI.exe

Tweak UI for Windows XP Guide
http://www.winxpsolution.com/Tweakuixppro.aspx



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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

How can one change (delete old or add new) options that appear on a
right click of the mouse? I am mostly interested in the New menu.