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Customize the Right Click Menu in Windows 7

By Tanmay | December 22, 2009 |

Adding some extra features in the right click menu is a good practice to easeyour work and save the time. You can add several items like Command prompt, Copy the contents to clipboard, CopyTo, MoveT

in your right clickcontext menu in Windows7. These additions obviously will benefit you by saving your time. Lets discuss

about the methods one by one. All the methods described in this article are based on registry editing. So back up your registry

before editing and keep yourself on the safe side.

Add Open Command Prompt in This Folder option

When you work in Command Prompt, many t ime you need to change the directory and generally you use the command cd

directory path. If the file is in the deep of your hard disk then repeating the task to change any directory is quite boring. You ca

add an entry in the right click menu by which you can open the command prompt directly in the folder, jus t right clicking on it.

Here is the simple registry tweak.

Press Windows key + R. Type regedit to open the registry.

Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell in the registry editor.

Create a new key under shell and name it Command Prompt.


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In the right pane modify the value of Default by right clicking on it and then Modify. In the Value data field write

Command Prompt here.

Similarly create another new key under the key Command Prompt and name it as command.

Select the new key youve just created and modify Default similarly and put the following code in the Value data field.

cmd.exe /k cd %1

Now close your registry editor and right click on any folder. You s hould see the Command Prompt here option.

After choos ing the option the command prompt will appear with the file path pointing to that folder.


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Add Copy the content to clipboard option

Suppose you want to copy the whole text of the notepad document and paste it in MS Word document. So you will have to open

the notepad file and then select all the text and then copy. But all the jobs can be done by just right clicking on the notepad file

and and s electing the Copy to clip item.

Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell in the registry editor.

Create a new key under shell and name it Copy to clip, following the same procedure as the previous case. In the right pane

modify the value of Default and you can give any thing meaningful that will appear in the right click menu, say Copy the

contents to clipboard.

Again create another new key under Copy to clip and name it command. Right click on Default, click on Modify and pu

the following code in Value data field

cmd /c clip < %1

Right click on any text file and choose Copy the content to clipboard. The content of the file is now copied in the clipboard.


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Now you can paste the content in any application.

Add CopyTo option

Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers in the registry editor

Right click on ContextMenuHandlers and choose New->Key.


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Give the name of the key as CopyTo.

Double click on the value named as Default in the right s ide. Enter the following code including the braces in the Value data

field.

{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}


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The CopyTo item will be added in the right click menu. Now right click on any file or folder and chose CopyTo. The following

pop-up box will appear.

You can choose here the location where you want to copy the file or folder.


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Lie

Add SendTo option

To add MoveTo item in the right click menu navigate to the same key as des cribed above.

Create a new key in the similar way and give the name as MoveTo.

Similarly put the following code in the Value data field.

{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

See that the MoveTo item has been added to the right click menu.

All the procedures described in this article works for Windows 7, Vista as well as Windows XP.

Enjoy!

Tanmay Ahmed is the administrator as well as the owner of the tech blog Tech Tips Geekwhere he regularly writes about

computer tips & tricks, OS hacks, free on line web tools and much more. In real life he is a student of computer science from

Kolkata,India and he is very much passionate about being a professional blogger. He is here to share his knowledge that he

gained from his s tudent & blogging life.

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How can one add "Search" back into the right click menu and also "My Recent Documents" in the upper right of the

Start menu like used to be in XP Pro?

R2d4cp3o

how to add WINRAR options like "Extract Here" to context menu in win7 x64.

Sayed

Is it possible to add a command prompt icon to this?

XFox Prower

Its superb......

A.M.Srikanth

this is actually the great t ips for me!!!

i like u s o much...:D

Aidi Darusakka

its really helping me a lot thanks........

Subhash

An alternative to the command prompt in the context menu is pressing shift while right-clicking in a folder or desktop.

nush


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