Questions tagged [context-menu]
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How do I clean up the right-click context menu in Windows explorer?
Sometimes applications plug into the context menu that I get on right-click on files and folders in Windows Explorer. After some time this menu gets really messy and I just want to clean it up.
Can you tell me how I can do this?
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Sebastian Hoitz
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Windows 7 - Elevated Command Prompt Context Menu
I realize the Vista trick of typing cmd then SHIFT+CLICK+END from the Search menu gets you a privileged terminal session.
Has anyone found the necessary tweaks to turn this capability into RIGHT+CLICK folder convenience?
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Brett Veenstra
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How do you add to context menu "Open as Read Only" in Windows 7/Vista for docx, doc, xls, etc
Microsoft word has a built-in way to open files as Read only from context menu. If you Shift+RightClick you get an option but it doesn't work.
If you look online for this you will find a lot of ways for Windows XP to fix the Shift right click (Link)…
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Andrei Dvoynos
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Explorer Right Click Context Menu Items Missing
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2
When I right click on a file/folder most of the third party context menu items are missing.
These are the items like 7zip , Unlocker, Winamp ... which adds entry to right click context menu.
What could be wrong?
I…
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surajs
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Items in The "New" Context Menu is Missing Only on Normal Users
A computer which is running Windows server 2018 sp2 is part of the AD domain. However, any domain users, local users and local administrator, except the domain administrator, can't create any new items by right-clicking on the blank area and select…
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NeilWang
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How to add context menu entries on a Samba share
The Samba server is running on Linux, the clients are Windows machines (Windows XP and Windows 7). Is it possible to extend the client-side context menus for files and folders on the mounted shares, by configuring something on the server-side…
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Windows Server 2019 - Unable to create File from Right Click
Windows Server 2019.
I've created a new user account and added it to the Administrators Group.
I've disabled the built-in Administrator account for security.
When using the new Administrative user account it seems to be missing a lot of right click…
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Andrew Berridge
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