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Title: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on August 02, 2005, 08:29 AM
DonationCoder.com will soon announce a utility that I predict will become a favorite here..
a tool for easily creating custom right-click context menu items, in a way easier and more powerful than seen in any existing program.

it will also come with a bunch of context menu tools.

we welcome your suggestions for simple right-click context menu tools you'd like to see
(like move-to-specific folder, copy path to clipboard, etc.)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on August 11, 2005, 01:44 AM
if anyone feels up for it, i'd love some help collecting links to and lists of existing tiny little right-click context menu tools, and the functions they provide.

ie, things like rjh extensions, http://www.rjhsoftware.com/rjhextensions/
copy path to clipboard, http://stefan.bertels.org/clipboardpath.en.htm
etc.

and also i'd love to get suggestions for right click context menu tools that you'd like to see.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Carol Haynes on August 11, 2005, 03:27 AM
How about SendTo (at http://www.trogsoft.com/products/sendto/) which extends and improves the shell Send to command.

Also http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/ has two shell utils I have found useful. Path copy allows you to copy file names or path names to the clip board in long and short formats, and Date edit allows you to quickly modify file date.


Carol
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander - suggestion
Post by: Carol Haynes on August 11, 2005, 03:31 AM
How about a quick way of changing file associations for the type of file you right click on?

I know you can do it through the Folder Options and then search for the file type, but it would be nice to have a quick way to adjust all the file association options associated with a particular file type (oen, edit, print etc), or even perhaps establish new ones.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: nudone on August 11, 2005, 04:04 AM
i can't really think of any novel features to add but i'd certainly like to see some kind of option that allows you to remove items from the right click menus.

i've tried a few tools that are meant to do this already but they don't appear to work 100% or can lead to other problems.

the right click context menu that appears with internet explorer (although i use Maxthon) is particularly annoyingly full of crap.

i know a lot of this unwanted junk appears because of the programs i've installed but some of them don't provide you with a choice of whether you want them to add things to the right click menu - they just do it without your permission and with now way of disabling it.

can we have a way of regaining control of the context menus please?
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on August 11, 2005, 08:24 AM
piky basket is another cool idea we will be implementing as one of the ContextMenu plugins:
http://www.conceptworld.com/Piky/piky_features.asp
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on August 11, 2005, 08:33 AM
changing file extensions is a good idea, especially if you remembered past settings to undo.
and copy paths to clipboard is certainly one we are going to do, with some nice extras :)
we will definitely be having a robust copy/move to favorites item (send to stuff).

as for managing other context menus, unfortunately its another kind of product entirely, though it would be nice to use in conjunction with this; i used to know a good one.

Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: randiroo76073 on August 11, 2005, 06:35 PM
I'll really have to second Nudone's post, as I'm constantly trying to find ways to clean up unwanted  menu add-ons, usually having to do a reg edit, which can be a pain in ass. Every prgm I've tried so far leaves a great deal to be desired and causes other probs that don't always show up right away :(
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: AbteriX on August 15, 2005, 10:56 AM
just FYI only

i had used

DMEX-Menu 3.19
Explorer Contextmenu Extension
- Bulk rename
- Select with mask *.txt
- open DOS-Box here
- open two WinExplorere side by side
- recent folders to jump to
...


and its advantage
DMEX-Bar
Version 10:
- Copy/Move on reboot commands in the "File operations" menu
- Sizeable edit boxes in toolbar
- Enter multiple masks in "Select files"
- Standalone unsplit utility
- Copy UNC paths in the "Copy to clipboard" menu
- Show UNC paths in "Change Drive" menu
- New options in the "Configuration" menu
- New icons
- Changes in the "Run programs" parameters. You will have to rebuild the program list. Sorry.
- New tool: DMEXDir. Adds a new toolbar to the explorer
to replace the address toolbar.
Shows the current path as buttons for a quick change to a parent directory.
- Drag&Drop support in DMEXCpl
- "Run Programs" and "Zip file" added to in DMEXMenu
- New Treesize column in DMEXCol (still experimental)

no home page, only to find on simtel
e.g.
http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=59298
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: spj on August 17, 2005, 06:31 PM
if anyone feels up for it, i'd love some help collecting links to and lists of existing tiny little right-click context menu tools, and the functions they provide.

Hi mouser,

I've been looking for such a program for a long time, so here you have a list of some of them that I have tried (you must know most -if not all- of them, but just in case):

Context Menu Editor http://www.bartdart.com/
ShellMenu View http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_view.html
Fast Explorer http://thesoftpro.tripod.com/downloads/fe/index.htm
File Manu Tools http://www.lopesoft.com/
Context Edit http://www.ramlende.com/utilities.html
PCMag's ContextEdit
CMenu Extender http://www.geocities.com/revenger_inc/download.html
Context Magic http://www.contextmagic.com/menu-extension/
Perfect Menu http://www.pitrinec.com/pmeindex.htm
Context Menu Control Freak & Mmm http://www.hace.us-inc.com/
jv16 PowerTools http://www.jv16.org/
IE Toolbar Manager http://www.westbyte.com/ietool/

Then you have these two web sites that deal with the subject:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=52524
http://www.codeproject.com/shell/

and also i'd love to get suggestions for right click context menu tools that you'd like to see.

None of the above do ALL what they portend to do, but where I find a real good Context Menu Commander missing is in regards to Internet Explorer. jv16 allows you to delete certain entries and IE Toolbar Manager to delete and to add, but the real problem is, IMO, that neither gives you the "power to actually tame it".

Let me try to explain: you install a program (helper, BHO) and it's entries appear in the Context Menu. Then you install another one and in too many cases it "bullies out" the previous entries. You go check the Registry and they are all there, but not all of them appear in the Context Menu. Using the above mentioned programs you may delete one and see if it allows another one, but (1) once deleted you can't get it back unless you reinstall and (2) there's no way to be sure of which one will show up. If you then install another program the problem gets worse.

My apologies for the length of this post, but this is an issue I am most interested in. I have asked around even in one paid support service forum and nobody has been able to come up with an answer: how to take control of the IE Context Menu and force it to show the entries you want and hide those you don't.

So I'd be very very happy if the program you are thinking of would approach this problem. My expertise is nil and I don't know if it's possible. If it is, I hope you consider my suggestion. AFAIK, it would be a first (I am not sure about IE Toolbar Manager ...it's Help File is useless to a non-tech person).

My English is rather limited, but I hope the idea is clear.

Thank you for reading this far :) Best wishes,

Sandro
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: lanux128 on September 04, 2005, 10:52 PM
if anyone feels up for it, i'd love some help collecting links to and lists of existing tiny little right-click context menu tools, and the functions they provide.

hi there mouser,

i'm eagerly awaiting for your app & since u asked, i'd like list down some of stuff that i've come across...

ok, that will do for now, i guess...

best regards,
lanux
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on September 04, 2005, 11:13 PM
don't worry, this program is coming.
the main point of this app will be letting you customize and add new (and let people easily make new) context menu extensions.
but i am going to try to include a whole bunch of commands with its release.

keep these lists coming!
lanux those are some great finds.
i expect that at time of release, contextmenu commander will come with tools to do everything that these from your list currently do:
 nirext, parametizer, copypath, droptodos, copyurl, shortcutexp, saivert's.

this is not to knock these tools, only to try to provide one highly customizable tool that provides these commands in an attractive way and lets people add new ones as well.  plus this should be an ideal way for amateur coders to make thier own context menu extensions.

we will also be adding stuff like hobcomment in a variety of ways we can discuss.

i fully expect ContextMenu Commander to be one of our most popular tools.  I'm hoping for release in a month or so.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on September 04, 2005, 11:15 PM
To clarify something:

while it would be nice to also add the ability to customize OTHER context menu extensions, such tools do exist (see spj'd post for a great list), the main job of ContextMenu Commander is to let you CREATE NEW Custom context menu extensions, and provide a single customization point for a bunch of plugin context menus.

That is, ContextMenu commander will not be for cleaning up your existing menus.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: clif_notes on September 05, 2005, 03:56 AM
Most recent right click I added ...

Boot Deleter (http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php)
Boot Deleter is an application that adds itself to the Windows Explorer (shell) context menu and allows you to mark files and folders to be deleted when Windows next restarts. This allows you to delete items that are locked by running programs. Items can also be marked for deletion by passing the file/folder as a command-line argument or by dropping the item onto the Boot Deleter executable icon.

(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/497/bootdeleter7ra.gif)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on September 05, 2005, 03:59 AM
nice.

ps. cliff why not go to your forum profile pick out an avatar for your forum image and while you're at it, set your website there so people can visit your website when they read one of your posts.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: clif_notes on September 05, 2005, 04:01 AM
Also, at work, I added a sendto option to send wav files to my copy of lame.exe to be converted to mp3's.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: imtrobin on September 06, 2005, 01:59 AM
I'm not sure if this is an intended feature of ContextMenu Commander, but this tool, Mmm, allows hiding of the context menu, and it's so cool..

http://www.hace.us-inc.com/mmm.shtml
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on September 06, 2005, 02:08 AM
nice find, mmm looks quite good and something we should study for contextmenu commander inspiration.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Nighted on October 04, 2005, 01:01 AM
Please add a plugin that lets you send shortcuts to a list of favourite folders.
This would be perfect for quickly adding and organizing content in custom start menu folders, quicklaunch, etc.

Also if you could name the shortcut before creating in the chosen location it would be perfect.

:D

Can't wait to check this out!
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: TheGiant on October 21, 2005, 10:46 AM
as for managing other context menus, unfortunately its another kind of product entirely, though it would be nice to use in conjunction with this; i used to know a good one.

EDIT: Was going to mention MMM but I see it's been done already
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: TheGiant on October 21, 2005, 10:55 AM
Some of my Favorites

That's all I can think of at the moment, for the most part the ones I had are either already mentioned, or I have forgotten about.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on December 29, 2005, 07:09 PM
just an update: TONS of work has been done on this over the last week or two, it's really taking shape :)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: lanux128 on December 29, 2005, 10:16 PM
just an update: TONS of work has been done on this over the last week or two, it's really taking shape :)
yeah! that's cool, mouser... and since my earlier post here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=606.0), this is one tool that i've been waiting eagerly... ;-)

best regards,
lanux
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: NoWhereMan on January 03, 2006, 08:27 AM
Absolutely cool. It's ages I'm searching for a good tool for that :)
I've been using Shelltoys XP found on a cover cd of a mag. Sweet little app. Most used: Copy path to clipboard. You get addicted :) but many others... print folder listing, select by filter, etc

bye :)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: jgpaiva on January 04, 2006, 06:42 PM
that sure seems like a great idea,get various *useful* options at the distance of a click!
there's one feature i can't find anywhere that i think would be great if you could include in contextmenu commander:
the possibility to change the order of te items in the context menu (the ones that are put by other programs,like pikybasket),because sometimes (as happens with piky in my computer),the options are too far to be handy ;)
i dunno if it can be done (since i didnt find any app that allowed me to do this),but it would be great if u could add this :D
thanks!!!
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: gottadoit on January 13, 2006, 06:13 AM
Hey,
  I hope that after all this work that this one will take top honours in any future context menu reviews
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: kimmchii on January 13, 2006, 06:56 AM
i'd like to see all the features that available in rjh extensions.
i really love rjh extensions, but it doesnt work in xp, it wont release its' dll or handles or something, that cause folders in use all the time and undeleteable.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Edvard on January 13, 2006, 11:30 AM
I use Context Edit (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,9879,00.asp) and it does everything I've ever wanted to do to my context menu. Remove unwanted entries, add new filetypes and special functions for certain filetypes, etc. I can't remember where I got it, apparently pcmag wants money for it.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mob on January 25, 2006, 09:48 PM
I use Context Edit (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,9879,00.asp) and it does everything I've ever wanted to do to my context menu. Remove unwanted entries, add new filetypes and special functions for certain filetypes, etc. I can't remember where I got it, apparently pcmag wants money for it.

I agree 100%. PCmags Context Edit is the best!!!
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mob on January 26, 2006, 10:18 PM
Wow, I just noticed this topic was started half a year ago...

All that time and not even a beta was released? Or at least some screenshots of what's to come? Anything?? :tellme:

I wanna see this application come out soon, it sounds pretty good.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on January 26, 2006, 10:26 PM
we've actually been working on cmc a lot off an on.
and i am ABOUT to release a beta of Launch Bar Commander any day now.
(Launch Bar Commander is the precursor to context menu commander sharing the same core code, and will be one of at least 2 and possibly 3 or 4 apps that we release build on the same engine).  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: thomthowolf on January 28, 2006, 10:27 AM
One of my "must have" context menu tools is File Targets by Moon Software.  http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp (http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp)  Here is their description:
FileTargets is a shell context menu extension that adds a sub-menu with all your favorite folder names to the context-menu of all files and folders in your system so you can copy/move selected files to pre-defined, most used folders with the click of a mouse. FileTargets menu is similar to the standard SendTo menu but is much more advanced since it allows you to create subgroups, automatically add new folders, copy file path names and much more.
I formerly used the sendto toys, but I found that it takes a lot more time to load that menu than file targets, and that file targets is generally easier to work with.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: jgpaiva on January 29, 2006, 06:56 AM
I just found out Stardock's Right Click (http://www.stardock.com/products/rightclick/). Although not free, I think it's also worth mentioning.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on January 29, 2006, 07:08 AM
yes, stardock's right click is very close in functionality to context menu commander.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: allen on January 29, 2006, 07:14 AM
I'm a big fan of the perhaps-abandonware "rcFTP" program -- it's a tiny one-way ftp program designed to integrate into the right click menu.  First thing you do with it is plug in your ftp server login info and add folders you'll want to send files to on those servers.  Once that's setup, uploading a file is as simple as right click -> send to -> rcFTP -- then you select the server and folder you want from the dropdowns and send it.  Simple on the fly ftp.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: wr975 on January 29, 2006, 02:47 PM
Some plugins I'd like to see...

- "read only" attribute remover (like CROA; http://davidcrowell.com/Croa.aspx)

- "context menu editor" (like mmm+, already mentioned several times)

- "right-click FTP upload (mentioned by allen. Another right-click FTP uploader is csbFTP; http://www.toffi-net.de/cFTP-support/eindex.php)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: jgpaiva on January 29, 2006, 04:35 PM
Just found Shell Toys xp, already mentioned in this post, but didn't have link. I think this one is worth checking: http://www.shelltoysxp.com/
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Amadawn on February 04, 2006, 06:55 PM
There are 2 things that I'd love to add to my explorer context menu:

- A folders submenu with all my favorite folders that would allow me to navigate to them with a simple right click (and it should be able to reuse any open explorer window if I want it to)
- A "Create folder" button (as the windows "New>" submenu is sooo slow!!!).

A tool that adds those two (and perhaps "command promt here" although there is already a Microsoft PowerToy that does that) woul be perfect!

Amadawn

P.S.- When is the first release of this program expected?
The thing that I'd like the most wou
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on February 06, 2006, 06:34 AM
the 2 things you requested will be in context menu commander for sure.

release date is a bit hard to estimate - i've been working very hard on the shared infrastructure that will be used in a series of programs inlcuding contextmenu commander, and the first app to use this will be launch bar commander and it looks like farr 2.  contextmenu commander is a joint project with another programmer so it's a bit harder to give a real date.  However, a good deal of the code is already written and working, so it's not vaporware, just a matter of scheduling :)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: vegas on February 06, 2006, 08:16 AM
I too am very much looking forward to an all-in-one solution like this, but I have to think at some point something like this could easily start to get bloated down with features (which could be an issue for a program that runs all the time in the background), so my question is, how much of a priority is keeping memory consumption to a low going to be? ;)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on February 06, 2006, 08:41 AM
i really look forward to writing about context menu commander when it comes out..
basically ive been spending a lot of time making a really nice friendly and very powerful infrastructure for letting users design custom hierarhical menus and stuff, which would be useful for designing custom context menus, launch bars, and more.  i'm really very proud of it and i plan to be using it in several programs.

but the good news is that the code is specifically designed so that a very lightweight windows dll will be used to handle the context menu stuff.  in fact because of the way the cmc is being designed it will be incredibly light on resource usage :)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: AbteriX on February 20, 2006, 02:52 PM
PESX - THE shellextension
for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 2000 / WIndows XP

lets you analyze your Applications and DLLs dependencies.
Now includes 16 Bit (NE) support !


Right click on a DLL or EXE File, select Properties,
a new page titled 'dependencies' is displayed.
You can see all directly or indirectly needed DLLs displayed
either in a tree view or in a list view.

See dependencies of your modules as tree view or flat as list,
easily find all Files that make your application run, quick jump to
the listed entries or copy information to the clipboard.


It's like an "Dependcy Walker" in your file preferences box.

http://www.jps.at/pesx.html

------- ++++++++++++++++++++++

A long description of The Portable Executable File Format
http://www.jps.at/pefile.html
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Sugar on March 12, 2006, 05:08 PM
IE Booster offers tools to extend Internet Explorer, but the version which was free is no longer available on the website.  It helps you to dig into the technology behind a website, to analyze the HTML and script code, to copy content and to use online tools to analyze a webpage.  :(

As a webmaster, I use it to analyze errors in code snippets.  You can right click, show partial source and see exactly what you've highlighted.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: lanux128 on March 14, 2006, 09:13 PM
hi there mouser, still keeping faith in you.. ;-)

btw, found some tools by Serenity that extends the Explorer's context-menu...
http://serenity.pixelarmy.org/apps/shellmenu/shellmenu.htm

Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: app103 on June 02, 2006, 05:05 AM
I have an idea for this one...convert to .jpg...or .bmp...or png...or whatever.

I have need for all 3...and on the context menu would save a lot of time...as long as the compression for jpg is very light. I don't want picture quality compromised too much.

Also converting to 256 color .bmp would save me time with making icons.

And rather than replacing the current file, make sure it creates a new file.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: thunder7 on June 26, 2006, 07:48 AM
Add any program!.
I too have been looking for such a tool to add to my "Right-Click" context menu.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Carol Haynes on June 26, 2006, 09:20 AM
IE Booster offers tools to extend Internet Explorer, but the version which was free is no longer available on the website.  It helps you to dig into the technology behind a website, to analyze the HTML and script code, to copy content and to use online tools to analyze a webpage.  :(

As a webmaster, I use it to analyze errors in code snippets.  You can right click, show partial source and see exactly what you've highlighted.


IE Booster was replaced by SiteInspector which was moved to freeware recently ...

http://www.paessler.com/psi

I suspect the move to freeware will mean suspension of development (they were already running down updates for Firefox when it was still commercial) but it does the job.

Note you really have to prune the number of context menu items visible in Internet Explorer otherwise it almost fill sthe maximum number of slots in that menu (it is a known problem with IE, but PSI doesn't help the situation by adding loads of entries). Check the preferences to decide which options you want included.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: TucknDar on September 13, 2006, 02:42 PM
How's work on this utility coming along? I'd love to see an alpha or beta!  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Curt on October 31, 2006, 06:31 PM
Firefox has taught me tab-browsing. And with IE7 being for XP and Vista only, I and my Win2K would shure like IE6 to able to "Open in new window blur" (or what the English term might be, saying 'out of focus') from the right-click menu, instead of always stealing focus.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Curt on November 01, 2006, 01:44 AM
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
This right-click-at-picturefile menu was made with the free IrfanView and a free DLL from BAxBEx.
Most usable!

http://www.irfanview.com/
http://www.baxbex.com/products.html - scroll all down

Sadly, the IrfanView forum has just lost their server, and will be down for some weeks.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: app103 on November 07, 2006, 10:42 AM
Windows doesn't offer this for every file, by default, but should:

Open in Notepad

Yes, I know there are tools to add this and others to the menu, and I have done it myself, but it would be nice to include in an all-in-one tool.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: lanux128 on November 07, 2006, 08:26 PM
there is a lot of interest in this program but unfortunately mouser's seems to be busy atm.. :(
btw mouser, if you have an alpha version lying around, i'd be happy to take it for a test-drive.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Perry Mowbray on December 08, 2006, 05:44 AM
basically ive been spending a lot of time making a really nice friendly and very powerful infrastructure for letting users design custom hierarhical menus and stuff, which would be useful for designing custom context menus, launch bars, and more.  i'm really very proud of it and i plan to be using it in several programs.

This certainly would be very handy! I've done a bit myself with AutoIT and the SendTo menu... the only issue there is that it's an app per menu item. But neat all the same: so you could have your "Send to NotePad" there for every file type.

But with this framework and the simplicity of AHK or AutoIT it would open up a lot of powerful options.

For example, at work where IT do not allow us to install programmes, I've a "CopyPath" AutoIT exe in my SendTo which copies the file paths of the selected icons.

- Perry
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: dluby on December 15, 2006, 05:29 AM
Have we any idea when this software (with so much potential) will be available???
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Curt on March 16, 2007, 12:31 PM
The whole thing sounds simple enough, but I know its quite a b@#$h to code. Not because it's difficult, but all of the COM interop interfaces etc, bla bla... any ways I put this on my Things-I-Can-Do-When-I-Have-Run-Out-Of-Things-To-Do list, near the top, so some time in the future I might give it a go ;)

Could this "OpenWith_2" (link=topic=7763 (http://[quote author=Curt link=topic=7763.msg54810#msg54810 date=1173894427)) be a part of the ContextMenu Commander?
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Mandork on May 04, 2007, 04:48 AM
Is this still in development, or did you get tired of it?  It sounds really, really cool.  I think that I would heavily promote it to everyone I know.

One thing that I have been trying to figure out (see here https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8339.new#new) is a way to change things on the "summary" properties tab for multiple files at once.  So, for instance, I can highlight several files of various kinds, right-click, and add a "comment" to all of them at once.  Or, if that's not possible, a way to view all of these properties in a table format and just tab to  the next field and change it, like you can in Windows Media Player 9, for instance (see screen shot).  If you want to change the tag info for several files, all you have to do is tab to the next one and it works just like a spreadsheet would.  I'm thinking of something like the file tags for .mp3s, but for regular files--.doc, .txt, whatever. 

It gets really tiresome to go to the summary tab for every file, because as far as I can tell you have to do each one individually. 
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Mandork on May 04, 2007, 06:32 AM
I just found something that seems to do what I want, and I thought I'd share:  http://www.tilti.com/new/en/index.php?id=2_metachanger

Appears to be freeware, somehow it seems slightly dodgy, but is this just because it feels miraculous to find it after a frustrating search?   :-\
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: cnewtonne on May 04, 2007, 09:01 AM
I used Perfrect menu for over 3 years before I abandoned it. I mostly used it to launch apps which I then totaly replaced by AppRocket, then TypeAndRun, and finally FARR. I'm not sure what else you can do with such menu. I still have one menu I use via MacroExpress to launch windows automation scripts like ...
- create an email/appointment/contact from the currently selected text in any app.
- Run a backup of my laptop.
- Restart a program if not running otherwise activate it existing window.
- Clean my browser cache and temp folder.
- Manage windows e.g. resize,on top, transparent, ... etc.

Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Curt on May 04, 2007, 12:12 PM
I just found something that seems to do what I want, and I thought I'd share:  http://www.tilti.com/new/en/index.php?id=2_metachanger

- so, are you trying it out and have some comments to share??   ;)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Mandork on May 05, 2007, 10:22 AM
Indeed!

It's pretty basic, but it does what it says on the tin, as the British say.  You can add files either by drag & drop or via the File menu or toolbar button.  You can have three different profiles, into which you put the appropriate info.  Highlight the files you want to change, click the checkmark, and presto!  There are three fields (Category, Manager, Company) that are "office only", which seems to mean .doc and .xls, because they didn't apply to an Access database or any of the Open Document formats. 

Also, you can't add comments to a folder this way, but the HobComment program mentioned above does an admirable job of this. 

It has a limited period (15 days, I think) before you have to register it, but it's still free.

Seems to be pretty good so far!
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Edvard on May 25, 2007, 06:39 PM
Help!

Mouser I hope this is coming out soon, as my installation of ContextEdit is suddenly borked...
I start it up and it disappears into the background, using 98% cpu.

ContextEdit did 98% of everything I ever wanted to do with my context menu, and now... :(
The 2% it didn't do was:
1- Add sub-trees and separators to the context menu
2- Re-order items in the context menu
(can CMC do these?)
Otherwise, I used it to add extension classes, Autohotkey functions, filetype-specific actions, etc.

As the lolcats would say... "It can has be betatest teim now pleez?"

(oh, and will it run on NT4?)(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/63.gif)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Curt on June 13, 2007, 11:40 AM
don't worry, this program is coming

(....)

i fully expect ContextMenu Commander to be one of our most popular tools.  I'm hoping for release in a month or so.

..
The 2% it didn't do was:
1- Add sub-trees and separators to the context menu
2- Re-order items in the context menu

On my XP the most important feature would (also) be the ability to move items from the main menu to a seperate menu  ("sub-trees")(i.e. "Copy-options ...", "3'rd part app options ...", or whatever), making the menu (menus) shorter; not so tall. Right now I have two entries too much, making the context menu taller than the screen.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mateek on June 21, 2007, 02:23 PM
In the past few weeks, I'd just been looking for the simple syntax to add a Windows' Folder Options>File Types>[Higlighted File Type]Advanced>New... so that I could set "Printer Setup..." (also 'Preferences') in the Rt-Click context menu.  If I Print by rt-click, no dialog comes up, but the default printer spits it out.  Actually, my default is a pdf driver, but it spits it onto my screen.  I would have to add the new menu item one by one to each file type. 

Is this the right type of suggestion for ContextMenu Commander?     

How about a feature to add it on every file type that prints?  I saw the 'every file type' suggestion a few posts up.  I use MMM+ too, so if it's annoying somewhere, I can just slide it into the Dormant folder I made, that shows up on every file type anyway. 

I've picked up a useful 'copy to clipboard' from this forum for short names I'd been looking for this month too.  Great posts!
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: thunder7 on July 14, 2008, 06:20 AM
I have found a lot of info on Context Menu (Right Click).
Though nothing as of yet on what I would like as too 'Add a program' too the New> List.
I have tried as many app's over the years too add too the context menu.
But nothing that would allow me to add a program.

So I ponder if it can be done at all!.
hmmm,...

I found these links,..
I hope they can help someone.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762099(VS.85).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762101(VS.85).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776779(VS.85).aspx

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/winxphacks_chap1/index1.html

NOTE: on this one. I tried it and had to restore my system.
http://www.askvg.com/add-your-favorite-program-shortcut-in-desktop-context-menu-in-windows-xp/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274202/en-us

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238215/en-us

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10878_11-4643-2.html

http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/context+menu.html?t=0&s=0&o=0

I have a lot more links, if anyone needs them.
Thunder7
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Carol Haynes on July 14, 2008, 08:30 AM
Does this article help achieve what you want:

http://mc-computing.com/WinExplorer/WinExplorerRegistry_ShellNew.htm
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: GoodGuy98 on February 25, 2009, 03:33 PM
I would like the ability to do something along these lines.

This would be one operation to perform this function which is currently done manually.

(1). Right-click to create a New Folder
(2). Change Directory to the New Folder
(3). Change the default view to "List" in the Windows Explorer toolbar.
(4). Right-click to create a New Text Document and backspace over the
     "New Text Document.txt" to change it to "Url.txt".
(5). Double-click on "Url.txt" to open it with Notepad.

I copy the URL of the software into the "Url.txt" and store the downloaded
file into the New Folder.

Example of the Folder Structure.

C:\Arc\
  C:\Arc\Router Screen Capture\
    router_screen_capture_v1.0.5_setup.exe
    Url.txt
  C:\Arc\Simple Port Forwarding\
    simple_port_forwarding_v2.3.0_setup.exe
    Url.txt

It would create a new folder to add ContextMenu Commander and the Url.txt file.

  C:\Arc\ContextMenu Commander\
    contextmenu_commander.exe
    Url.txt

I would like to have a new right-click context menu entry to make the process as
easy as possible. The step to copy the URL of the software into the "Url.txt" and store the downloaded
file into the New Folder would still be done by hand.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: MilesAhead on March 07, 2009, 12:09 PM
afa opening a specific tab in the property page, I wrote this for CommentConfig and it's hard-wired to open the Comment tab, but it could be generalized.

What's not shown in this code snip is processing WMDropFiles message.
I load a StringList with the file names from the drag & drop. The way
I used it, if the CommentConfig program was open you could drag & drop
a bunch of files onto the program form and it would open them all to the
Comment Property Page Tab if it existed, instead of doing it by hand for
each file.

sei is an array of SHELLEXECUTEINFO structs with the same length
as FileList that you find out by handling WMDropFiles.

for each file dropped it does ShellExecuteEx with the 'properties' verb.
Then it looks for a child window with a Title containing whatever string
you are looking for.  In this case 'Comment'

procedure TForm1.ProcessFiles;
var
  x: Integer;
  CharsCopied: Cardinal;
  WindowHandle, CommentHandle: HWND;
  MyMsg: TMessage;
  AnError, Found: boolean;
  MaxTabs: Integer;

begin
  MaxTabs := 4;
  for x := 0 to Count - 1 do
  begin
    AnError := False;
    Found := False;
    ZeroMemory(@sei[x], sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO));
    sei[x].cbSize := sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO);
    sei[x].fMask := SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST;
    sei[x].lpVerb := 'properties';
    sei[x].nShow := SW_SHOW;
    sei[x].lpFile := PChar(FileNameList[x]);
    sei[x].Wnd := Handle;
    if not ShellExecuteEx(@sei[x]) then
      raise Exception.Create('ShellExecuteEx Failed!');
    Sleep(500);
    WindowHandle := GetForegroundWindow;
    MyMsg.Msg := PSM_SETCURSEL;
    MyMsg.lParam := 0;
    MyMsg.wParam := 1;
    while (not AnError) and (MyMsg.wParam < MaxTabs) and (not Found) do
    begin
      if not PostMessage(WindowHandle, MyMsg.Msg, MyMsg.wParam, MyMsg.lParam) then
      begin
        ShowMessage('PostMessage Error!');
        AnError := True;
      end;
      Sleep(200);
      CommentHandle := GetWindow(WindowHandle, GW_CHILD);
      CharsCopied := GetWindowText(CommentHandle, Title, sizeof(Title) - 1);
      if Pos('Comment', Title) > 0 then
        Found := True;
      Inc(MyMsg.wParam);
    end; // While
  end; // For
end; // ProcessFiles
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: wxdjs on July 26, 2011, 11:24 AM
thinks for this soft
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: VLM on October 04, 2011, 12:41 PM
Is this project still active. (It's October 2011 :) If "yes", then from where can one download this software? Also, does the software enable one to rearrange the Windows context menu, and add/rearrange separators? I would find that VERY helpful!
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: MilesAhead on October 04, 2011, 03:18 PM
Is this project still active. (It's October 2011 :) If "yes", then from where can one download this software? Also, does the software enable one to rearrange the Windows context menu, and add/rearrange separators? I would find that VERY helpful!

No. Nothing like that. It amounts to an old Delphi way of opening the Properties and then navigating to the Comment Tab for one or more selected files. If I did it today I'd probably use one of the hotkey languages.  AutoIt3 or AHK. I came up with this to make it a bit more convenient to add comments for multiple files.  In the Comment Tab is an EditBox that's used to read or edit the comment. CommentConfig and TipOff were both 32 bit explorer shell extensions.  Not only does 64 bit render them non functional, but the usage was less than smooth.

I've redone commenting for files using Comment Explorer (http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html).  But that has nothing to do with the Context Menu at all. It just uses clipboard and ToolTips to display file comments rather than the shell extension approach. It doesn't matter if the OS is 32 or 64 bit.

If you search Comment Explorer on donationcoder you'll see the thread for it.


Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: VLM on October 04, 2011, 06:05 PM
Thanks for your kind reply. Wish I could find some utility or script that would enable real control over the Windows context menu(s). I just don't have the technical background to write it myself, but I surely could provide design input! :):) (in case anyone is interested :)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: MilesAhead on October 04, 2011, 10:01 PM
I don't know if there's much out there. From what I've seen most of them are registry hacks.  But I haven't checked 'em out in any depth.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: VLM on October 04, 2011, 10:23 PM
Thanks!
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: mouser on October 07, 2011, 07:46 AM
I basically stopped working on Context Menu Commander when I came across FileMenu Tools (http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html), which seems like mostly the same idea and is freeware/donationware.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: VLM on October 07, 2011, 11:13 AM
I understand. Thanks so much for pointing me toward that one. And I think it provides a nice end to the thread.  :)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: BGM on October 05, 2012, 08:50 AM
Ha!  FileMenuTools does most of the things named here.
I say that if you REALLY wanted to call a program "ContextMenuCommander" that you would be able to create subgroups of *existing* context menu items inserted by other applications.  There is an application that does this called, "Mmmm" - no joke, that's its name, but it lets you edit anything in the context menu.  It has a free version and a full version.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: Curt on October 05, 2012, 06:02 PM
... called, "Mmmm" - no joke, that's its name,

-no, it isn't, the name is MMM. And we all loved Hace MMM+, until Vista came along...
But that was many years ago. Are you running XP, BGM?
Besides, you may have skipped the previous page:

I basically stopped working on Context Menu Commander when I came across FileMenu Tools (http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html), which seems like mostly the same idea and is freeware/donationware.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: BGM on October 05, 2012, 07:32 PM
Ah!  You are right, it is Mmm (I actually purchased the license to Mmm+ back then for my XP), I stand quite corrected.  No, I am running Windows 7 now, and do have FileMenuTools (and now I see that quote from Mouser - no, I didn't all of the thread; guess I should have!).  But what can take the place of Mmm?  ContexMenuCommander is a good name.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: bobgott on October 27, 2014, 03:59 PM
I have been using Right Click Enhancer (http://rbsoft.org/).  Has not blown off my socks and a good enhancer has to be tightly weaved together with managing file extensions.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: BGM on October 27, 2014, 04:25 PM
I have been using FileMenuTools.  It is free and quite versatile.  I wish it could manage ALL the items in the context menu like Mmmm  however.  It will let you remove them, but you can't regroup them like you could in Mmmm.
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: questorfla on September 13, 2015, 10:57 PM
    :huh:  I basically stopped working on Context Menu Commander when I came across FileMenu Tools, which seems like mostly the same idea and is freeware/donationware. :-[
(i meant to quote you from last post, sorry
i clicked that link and it was gone :(.
I wold sure like to find one that was as easy to delete from as it was to add to.  And offer simple to use logic for creation of actions.
like highlight text send to proper desktop shortcut.  Highlighted html links = desktop web-shortcuts.  Highlighted .exe = shortcut to marked application.
use of check-boxes to select any for multiple removal and use same with drag and drop to allow organization in whatever order best suits the user.

i use right clicks a lot. :)
Title: Re: ContextMenu Commander
Post by: BGM on March 02, 2016, 10:06 PM
For that there's always Nirsoft's FilesTypeMan