Win7-Right menu customization and optimization guide

In daily operation, the Windows System's right-click shortcut menu plays a very important role, while the Vista hidden menu bar Interface design further strengthens the function of the right-click menu. Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of the vista/win7 system, you can customize the right menu according to your own custom, thus simplifying the original cumbersome operation process.

Practical Vista Right Button menu

As many users know, the VISTA/WIN7 system provides a set of extended right-click menus, that is, when you select any file or folder, hold down the SHIFT key and right-click, and you will see two hidden options from the pop-up menu: "Open command Window Here" and "Copy as Path." Where you open the command window here, you can quickly open a command prompt window at the specified directory location. The Copy as Path menu item enables you to copy the address of a file or folder to the system Clipboard. However, Vista's extended menu still doesn't meet the needs of most people, and those common operations can also be added to the right-click menu.

Open EFS Plus decrypt menu

Run regedit, open Registry Editor, expand Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionexploreradvanced, and then in the right pane, create a new EncryptionContextMenu ", and set the key value to" 1 ", and then press the F5 key to refresh the registry exit. In this case, the "encrypt" or "decrypt" item will be added to the right-click menu of the file or folder to quickly complete the file encryption and decryption operation.

Empty the Recycle Bin

In general, the empty Recycle Bin menu appears when you need to click the Recycle Bin icon. You can do this by modifying the registry if you want to empty the Recycle Bin by clicking any mouse in the blank space of your desktop or folder window. Create a new item "" Under the Registry Hkey_classes_rootdirectorybackgroundshellexcontextmenuhandlers Branch, and then exit. This allows you to quickly empty the Recycle Bin from the desktop right-click menu.

Copy/move to Folder

Under the Registry Hkey_classes_rootallfilesystemobjectsshellexcontextmenuhandlers Branch, create a new item, "Copy to," and modify the default key value in the right pane to "", The "Copy to Folder" option will be added to the right mouse menu. Similarly, under the registry branch above, create a new item "Move to", modify its default key value of "", and in the right-click menu, add the Moving to Folder option.

Registration/Anti-registration DLL file

Registering or Hkey_classes_rootdllfileshell DLL files is also a frequently used operation, so you can also integrate these two operations into the right-click menu by creating a separate name, "register" and " Unregister, modify the corresponding default key value of "registration D3dx9_42.dll" and "Anti-registration DLL". Then, the subkey named "command" is created separately from the subkey that was created above, and the "command" default key value of the registered DLL is changed to "Regsvr32%1", while the "command" default key value of the anti-registration DLL is changed to "regsvr32/u%1".

Fast Restart your computer

If you want to quickly restart your computer from your desktop, you can create a new item "Reboot" under the registry Hkey_classes_rootdirectorybackgroundshell Branch, modify the default key value for the right pane to "Restart your computer", and in the Reboot to create a new item "Command" under the subkey, and then modify its default key value of "shutdown-r-t 00".

Extend cascading menus

Vista system's Right-click menu also includes a number of cascading menus, such as Send to, open mode, and so on. For these cascading menus, you can customize them according to your custom.

Customizing the Open With menu

Vista's "open mode" is a useful menu item. For example, for the same video file, you can use the open with menu to quickly call a different player to play without modifying the file's association. This program is automatically added to the open with item as long as it is opened by calling a program through the Open with Selector program.

After the system has been in use for some time, as the item on the Open with menu increases, the pop-up speed of the right-click menu is slowed down, and it is necessary to clean it up. To clean up AVI format files The non-system recommended open Mode menu example: Run regedit, open Registry Editor, expand Hkey_current_ Usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionexplorerfileexts.avi, select the "Openwithlist" subkey, From the right-hand pane, you can see the various associated programs that are not systematically recommended by manually adding AVI files. Select the items you want to clean up, press the "DEL" key to delete, and then exit the registry after refreshing.

Extend the Send To menu

The "Send to" menu corresponds to a "SendTo" folder located in the "%userprofile%appdataroamingmicrosoftwindows" directory of the Vista system, which corresponds to the contents of the folder "Send to" Options in a cascading menu. For example, in e disk, create a folder named "Mybak," and then right-click the folder into the "SendTo" folder, create a shortcut, and rename it to "Backup to Mybak." You can quickly and easily back up files by right-clicking the file in Explorer and then performing a send to to Mybak backup.

Extend the new menu

For file types already registered in Vista, you can add the "shellnew" new item to the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT branch, and then specify the settings for how the system creates the new file, most commonly by adding "nullfile" and " Command value so that you can add this file type to the new cascading menu.

Under the Registry Hkey_classes_root.htm Branch, create a new item, "Shellnew," and then the newly created string value "Nullfile", the key value is empty, press F5 to refresh the registry and exit. Right-click on the desktop, open the new cascading menu, you can see an extra "HTML document." When you need to remove the unwanted file type from the new menu, simply locate the appropriate file name extension from the registry, and then delete the "Shellnew" subkey below it.

Right key menu Classification adjustment

Careful friends will surely find that some of the right-click menu items are only for a file type, folder type, or drive, that is, the associated menu appears only when you click on the appropriate object. For these specific right-click menus, you can customize them in the following ways.

Right-click menu for the specified file type

In the previous version of Windows, the right-click menu of the specified file type can be completed by adding or modifying the Folder Options file Type tab, and the default program option that the Vista system replaces can only associate a file type or protocol with a particular program and cannot be customized to the right-click menu. Therefore, the user needs to manually modify the registry to add or remove the right-click menu for the VISTA/WIN7 system-specific file type.

The VISTA/WIN7 system's default program option only associates a file type or protocol with a particular program and does not customize the right-click menu.

To give a simple example, add an "edit" entry to the right-click menu of the. pls (playlist) file by creating a new subkey named "Edit" under the Registry Hkey_classes_rootplsfileshell Branch, modifying the default key value to edit. And then create a subkey at its subordinates, named Command, and edit the default key value in the right pane to "Notepad%1", and then refresh the registry to exit.

Right-click menu for File class objects

Adding a right-click menu option to a file class object can also be done by modifying the registry. For example, add a "Cancel file attribute" to the right-click menu of all files to suppress read-only, hide, and System properties for the file. Run regedit, create a new item "HRS" under the registry Hkey_classes_root*shell Branch, modify its default key value to "Cancel file properties", and then create a new item in "HRS", named "Command", Change the default key value in the right pane to "attrib-h-r-s%1", and then exit. Now, by right-clicking any file, you can remove the various properties of this file at once by performing the cancel file properties.

Right-click menu for Folder Class object

Add the right-click menu option to the Folder class object, and you can do the same with the above method under the registry [Hkey_classes_rootdirectoryshell] branch. For example, add an item "Open in a new window" to the folder's right-click menu by creating a new item "NewWindow" under the registry Hkey_classes_rootdirectoryshell Branch, modifying its default key value to open in a new window, and then NewWindow "Subordinates to create a new item" Command ", change the default key value in the right pane to" Explorer%1 ", and then refresh the registry to exit. In this way, you can open a new window for the folder in the Explorer window by using the menu you created above.

Right-click menu for Drive Class object

If you want to activate the screensaver quickly, you can put the screensaver into the drive's right-click menu by creating a new item "LOADSCR" under the registry Hkey_classes_rootdriveshell Branch, modifying its default key value to "screen saver", and then creating a new item at the lower level of the item " Command, set the default key value in the right pane to "scrnsave.scr/s", and then exit Registry Editor after determining. Right-click on any drive, select "Screen Saver" from the menu to run the screensaver directly.

Right-click menu for all files and folders

If you want to add a specific menu item to the right-click menu for all files and folders, you can expand Hkey_classes_rootallfilesystemobjects in Registry Editor, and then create a new command for Shell commands. The action method can refer to the example described earlier.

Clean and optimize right-click menu

In the Vista system in accordance with their own custom to customize the menu, you can avoid the original cumbersome operation, thereby improving work efficiency. However, more than the right menu will slow down the system response speed, especially when many software installed in the system will add their own shortcut menu, resulting in the system's right menu bloated, unresponsive. So how do you clean and optimize the menu of right click?

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Right-click menu for commonly used software can be optimized with option settings, such as WinRAR allows the user to collapse the Shell Association menu, which is included in the "Options" Settings "synthesis" tab. On the other hand, users can also use some system aids, such as the Vista optimization master, Super Rabbit, etc. to the system's right-click menu to clean and optimize, and for some difficult right-click menu options, you need to analyze the specific situation and then hand-clean.