Adding a sub-menu in Windows context-menu

Question

I want to add a sub-menu to the right-click menu of Windows. Whenever a user right-clicks on a file or a folder, my application name with the sub-menu must appear there.

How to handle this?

You may also wish to refer to stackoverflow.com/questions/2114853/… — Hugh Bothwell
– Hugh Bothwell, Commented Jan 11, 2011 at 1:56

Hugh Bothwell · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-11 01:52:16Z

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You want to edit the Windows Explorer context menu. You can do this in a couple of different ways:

There is a utility at http://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/15/add-custom-items-to-windows-explorer-context-menu/ which provides a bit of hand-holding. It looks like it will also let you add sub-menus directly.
Manually add the appropriate entries in the registry; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379/en-us May be useful for testing, but generally nasty.
Create a .reg file to add the entries automatically. A bit less error-prone, but still hazardous.

answered Jan 11, 2011 at 1:52

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