Windows accumulates context menu items any time you install several applications. Not all applications end up on the context menu but enough do so over time that the menu can become cluttered. You might find yourself wondering, “How did that get there?” You may not want it on the context menu, but it is there [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Some applications that you install add entries to the context menu. This is usually true for programs that interact with files, like the 7-zip archiving software, a text editor like Notepad or software to play media. The usability issue here is the following: It is sometimes not possible to accept or decline the program’s integration [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the areas of the Windows operating system that Microsoft has not improved a lot ever since the first release of Windows 95 is the context menu. It is unbelievably complicated to remove or add context menu items in the operating system. The problem is amplified by the fact that programs sometimes add items [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Firefox displays a lot of options when you right-click in the web browser. The list of items depends on the element that you right-clicked on, as some entries are only shown if you click on images, text or media contents. When you look at all of the entries you may notice that you only use [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Getting Windows to start the right program on double-click can be quite the daunting task. Not that it is usually that difficulty to link a file extension to a default program, but sometimes, it just does not stick. For me, it is a month long problem with torrent files that display the open with dialog [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft has decided to remove several context menu entries from Windows 7′s Windows Explorer context menu if more than 15 items are selected at once. The open, print and edit links are specifically removed whenever more than 15 files or folders are selected. This limit may affect context menu entries of other programs as well. [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic

Quick Cliq is an application launcher and productivity tool for the Windows operating system. The application adds a programmable menu to the system that can be launched with the mouse gesture or a hotkey. The hotkey Windows-Z or holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse down will open a customizable context menu [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows Explorer is the core file browser in Windows. People use it every day for file operations like opening, deleting or editing files. A question came up yesterday in the system wide website shortcuts article, that I would like to address today. Jojo asked if it is possible to open Internet shortcuts with another browser [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Windows Explorer context menu offers quick access to often used features, next to file and folder manipulation options. It is relatively strange that Microsoft never bothered to include a context menu editor with the Windows operating system, considering that many applications add entries to it. Context Menu Enhancer has been designed to add features [...]

Categories: Software, Windows