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How to customize and optimize the beautification of vista right-click menu, I believe many inexperienced people are at a loss about this. Therefore, this paper summarizes the causes and solutions of the problem. Through this article, I hope you can solve this problem.

In the daily operation, the right-click shortcut menu of Windows system plays a very important role, and the interface design of Vista hidden menu bar further strengthens the function of right-click menu. Therefore, if you want to improve work efficiency in the Vista system, you can customize the right-click menu according to your own habits, so as to simplify the original tedious operation process.

Practical Vista right-click menu

As many users know, the Vista system provides an extended set of right-click menus, that is, when you select any file or folder, right-click while holding down the shift key, and you will see two hidden options from the pop-up menu: "Open command window here" and "copy as path". Among them, Open Command window here can quickly open the command prompt window at the specified directory location, and the copy as path menu item can copy the address of the file or folder to the system clipboard. However, Vista's extended menu still doesn't meet the needs of most people, and those common actions can also be added to the right-click menu.

Open EFS encryption and decryption menu

Run Regedit, open Registry Editor, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced, then create a new DWO value named "EncryptionContextMenu" in the right pane, set the key value to "1", and press F5 to refresh the registry to exit. At this point, "encryption" or "decryption" items will be added to the right-click menu of the file or folder, through which you can quickly complete the encryption and decryption operation of the file.

Empty the Recycle Bin casually

Usually, you need to click the Recycle Bin icon to see the empty Recycle Bin menu. If you want to empty the Recycle Bin with any mouse click in the blank space of the desktop or folder window, you can do so by modifying the registry. Create a new key "" under the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundShellexContextMenuHandlers branch, confirm and exit. In this way, you can quickly empty the Recycle Bin through the desktop right-click menu.

Copy / move to folder

Under the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAllFilesystemObjectsShellexContextMenuHandlers branch, create a new key "Copy To", modify the default key value in the right pane to "", and the "copy to folder" option will be added to the right-click menu. Similarly, create a new key "Move To" under the above registry branch, change its default key value to "", and add the "move to folder" option to the right-click menu.

Register / unregister DLL files

Registration or anti-registration of DLL files is also a frequently used operation, so these two operations can also be integrated into the right-click menu by creating subkeys named "Register" and "Unregister" under the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDllfileShell branch of the registry, and modifying the corresponding default keys to "register DLL" and "anti-registration DLL". Then, under the subkey created above, create a subkey named "Command" and change the default key of "Command" for registering DLL to "Regsvr32 1", and the default value of "Command" for unregistering DLL to "Regsvr32 / u 1".

Quickly restart the computer

If you want to restart your computer quickly from the desktop, you can create a new key "Reboot" under the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshell branch, change the default key value of the right pane to "restart computer", and create a new key "Command" under the "Reboot" subkey, and then change its default key value to "ShutDown-r-t 00".

Extended cascading menu

The right-click menu of the Vista system also includes many cascading menus, such as "send to", "Open mode" and so on. These cascading menus can also be customized according to your own habits.

Customize the Open with menu

The "open mode" of Vista is a useful menu item. For example, for the same video file, you can quickly call different players to play through the Open with menu without modifying the association of the file. As long as a program is called to open a file through the Open method and Select Program, the program is automatically added to the Open by project.

After the system has been in use for a period of time, as the number of items in the Open with menu increases, it slows down the pop-up speed of the right-click menu, so it is necessary to clean it up. To clean up the AVI format file is not recommended by the system "Open" menu as an example: run Regedit, open the registry editor, expand HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerFileExts.avi in turn, select the "OpenWithList" sub-key, from the right pane you can see the various associated programs that are not recommended by the system by manually adding AVI files. Select the items that need to be cleaned, press the "DEL" key to delete, refresh and exit the registry.

Expand the send to menu

The "send to" menu corresponds to a "SendTo" folder, which is located in the "% UserPRofile%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindows" directory of the Vista system. The contents of this folder correspond to the options in the "send to" cascading menu. For example, create a folder named "MyBak" on disk E, then right-drag the folder into the "SendTo" folder, create a shortcut, and rename it "backup to MyBak". At this time, right-click the file in Explorer, and then execute "send to" and "backup to MyBak" to quickly back up the file, which is fast and convenient.

Expand the New menu

For file types that have been registered with the Vista system, you can add a new entry "ShellNew" to the corresponding extension in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT branch of the registry, and then specify settings for how the system creates new files, most commonly adding "NullFile" and "Command" values, so that this file type can be added to the "New" cascading menu.

Under the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.htm branch, create a new key "ShellNew", then create a new string value of "NullFile", the key value is empty, press F5 to refresh the registry and exit. At this time, right-click on the desktop, open the "New" cascade menu, you can see that there is an extra "HTML document". When you need to delete a useless file type from the New menu, simply find the appropriate file extension in the registry and delete the "ShellNew" subkey under it.

Right-click menu category 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 context menu appears only when you click on the corresponding object. For these specific right-click menus, you can customize them in the following ways.

Right-click menu that specifies the file type

In previous versions of Windows, adding or modifying a right-click menu of a specified file type could be done through the "folder options"File Type" tab, while the "default Program" option replaced by the Vista system could only associate the file type or protocol with a specific program, and could not customize the right-click menu. Therefore, users need to manually modify the registry to add or remove right-click menus for specific file types on the Vista system.

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