ContextMenuManager
Enable and disable context menu options for files, folders, submenus (e.g. open, send to), Internet Explorer, and Win+X
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Portable
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
ContextMenuManager News & Activities
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- mosquito-magnet updated ContextMenuManager
- mosquito-magnet reviewed ContextMenuManager
I have fiddled with windows explorer context menus via registry manually, and looked for a more comfortable way. The other options I checked were proprietary, bundled with adware, or do register as a shell extension handler, so every custom context menu will be run through that program, which needs to be installed and registered to keep working - something I wanted to avoid on work machines and similar, and to keep things lean and simple.
Good: This is what I looked for, just an editor for...
- SV1987 reviewed ContextMenuManager
This is not an alternative to File Menu Tools, as it only changes already existing right click menu items. Does not add anything. But I cleaned my menu with it and ended up pretty satisfied with it.
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ContextMenuManager information
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Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.3Alternatives
1 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Arabic
- German
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Chinese
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- 832 Forks
- 171 Open Issues
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What is ContextMenuManager?
Enable and disable context menu options for files, folders, submenus (e.g. open, send to), Internet Explorer, and Win+X Modify menu names and icons Delete context menu entries Navigate menus in the registry or File Explorer Add custom menu items and commands, also multi-level
Portable Does not register as a shell extension handler, it is only an editor for native windows context menu functionality (via registry), and not required to run any custom entries created with it.
Comments and Reviews
This is not an alternative to File Menu Tools, as it only changes already existing right click menu items. Does not add anything. But I cleaned my menu with it and ended up pretty satisfied with it.
I have fiddled with windows explorer context menus via registry manually, and looked for a more comfortable way. The other options I checked were proprietary, bundled with adware, or do register as a shell extension handler, so every custom context menu will be run through that program, which needs to be installed and registered to keep working - something I wanted to avoid on work machines and similar, and to keep things lean and simple.
Good: This is what I looked for, just an editor for windows context menus, no 3rd party app nr 50001 that needs to be permanently installed on my system, just for custom menu items to work. Unlike the last comment, this can in fact add new items, also multi-level. It can jump to registry locations for entries too so you can check the source. Change icons, disable unwanted entries, make entries only show up shift, backup modified registry fragments etc.
Not so good: Not updated since 2021, but still works fine on Win11. Runs on .NetFramework4, which is legacy. UI feels clunky, ignores some best practices. Chinese as first language - on first start it offers to download english, you need to restart the app after that for it to show. Some items are not localized (main functions are fine).