Windows Explorer context menu

[KaKi87]

I would like to be able to use Windows Explorer's context menu in Files, especially its custom entries, like, in my case : WinRAR, 7-Zip, LockHunter, Beyond Compare, Git Bash, Sublime Text, etc...

The context menu is also stored in Windows Registry.

I found some of my context menu items on my Windows Registry database, but, they're not located in the same place.

There's at least these :

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex

(Source)

Some way, CCleaner and other software manages to find them all.

Two software that I use, TreeSize and WinSCP, allows to display Windows Explorer's context menu, TreeSize isn't open source but WinSCP is : I found the feature in this Delphi file by the ShellDisplayContextMenu function.

I think this approach is different from reading the Registry because it's the genuine Windows Explorer context menu which is shown, so I guess there's some way to access it directly.

Unfortunately, I there's nothing more I can do to help you figure this out.

Good luck

[KaKi87]

Nothing is impossible, especially when other developers have done it before...

And the commands are specified in the Registry

[lukeblevins]

@KaKi87 @yaira2 Actually it is impossible because, to my knowledge, universal apps do not have access to the registry.

[lukeblevins]

However, we could investigate reading registry values from another Win32 component. e.g. one similar to ExecutableLauncher