Context Menu Item Creation

[datsun]

Can someone please help me to create a context menu item. I would like to select a few files, right click and have a menu option to run a program. The program need to receive the files or folder selected as arguments. Any help appreciated.

 

[Arc]

Will it be any helpful for you ?

ShellMenuView - Disable/enable context menu items of Explorer

 

[datsun]

Thanks Arc, that is a very interesting program but not quite what I need. I probably should better explain what I'm trying to do. I need help to create the registry entries to create a context menu item called "Optimise". To use the context menu item you drag a box around some photos in a folder, right click the selection and select "Optimise". The context menu item needs to run a program and pass the selection as commandline arguments to the program.

 

[A Guy]

See if this will help:

Ultimate Tool To Customize The Context Menu In Windows

A Guy

 

[Imperfect1]

And there's also these 3rd party apps that customize the Context Menu:

Customize the Right Click Menu in Windows 7 - Make Tech Easier
Edit Context Menu Items In Windows 7 & Vista
ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows
RegDllView
RegScanner
FileTypesMan
ShellMenuNew
Right Click Enhancer - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Downloads
Right-Click Extender download and reviews from SnapFiles
FileMenu Tools

 

[datsun]

Thanks A Guy and Imperfect1.

I used Ultimate Window Context Menu Customiser to get the key i need. The link on the home site for this program was dead. Working link found here:

Download: Ultimate Windows Context Menu Customizer ~ MinitechSource

The keys I wound up with are:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/SHELL/MYKEY/

• (Default)--- Reg_SZ--- Optimise Files
• Icon -------Reg_SZ--- C:\Scripts\myicon.ico
• Position-----Reg_SZ--- Middle

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/SHELL/MYKEY/COMMAND

• (Default)----Reg_SZ----C:\Scripts\myprogram.exe %1

This is running the program properly and passing the files selected as arguments to the program. The problem is that it runs a seperate instance of the program for everyfile I select.

So if I drag a box around three files, right click selection and left click Optimise Files then I get three instances of the program run with single file in each, instead of a single instance with three files in it.

What I need is for it to pass all the files as arguments to a single instance of the program.

Can anyone help with this?