How to Add a Disk Cleanup Shortcut to Right Click Context Menu
If you frequently use the disk cleanup utility, at a point of time it may be a painstaking task to perform several steps to get to the actual dialog box. Using this simple registry tweak, you can add the “Disk Cleanup” option to the right click context menu. Check out, 5 maintenance tasks to Improve […]
How to Open a Command Prompt from a Folder’s Right Click Context Menu
Even though a graphical user interface is indispensable, the command prompt still comes in handy at times. However, when you wish to bring up the MS-DOS box, the shortcut is hidden deep within the start menu. How about making the command prompt available instantly? If you use the command prompt frequently, the best way to […]
Open++ – Add New Options to Right Click Context Menu
If you don’t have an option of Open++ in the right click context menu, you sure are missing very handy features. Open++ is a software which can be used to enhance the functionality of the right click context menus by adding new options to it. You can check out different customizing options of Context Menus […]
How To Delete/Empty Folder Contents Easily Preserving Folder Structure
Usually the system can only completely delete complicated folder structures. But you want to preserve the structure and delete only the data files in it. However, opening and clearing out every single folder can be quite a painful and time taking task. A small registry edit can do this job for you. Preferably, you should […]
Encrypt or Decrypt Files and Folders through the Right Click Context Menu in Vista
Windows Vista has a built in file encryption utility. If you use this utility quite frequently, you may want to add this option to the contextual menu (the menu that opens on right-clicking a file). This would make it quite easy to encrypt or decrypt your files rather than using the file properties dialog box. […]
Defragment Drives Easily from Right Click – Context Menu
For the system to work smoothly, the hard disk must be defragmented regularly. However, using the Start menu to open the Disk Manager each time becomes cumbersome. With an entry in the registry, you can expand the context menu for disk drives to include the command to defragment them directly from the right click context […]
How to Add Copy to / Move to To The Right-Click Context Menu
Here is an extremely useful registry hack for windows XP and Vista, which adds "Copy to folder" and "Move to folder" to the right-click context menu of every file and folder. When you select, say, "Copy to folder," you’ll get an Explorer-style menu where you can navigate and choose the destination folder where the contents […]
How To Add ‘Insert’ Option To CD Drive Context Menu
Context Menu’s are Menus which are specifically allotted for a particular application. In other words they are the menus which will be opened when you right click a particular application. You ca tweak the context menus by simple registry hacks. In this tutorial we are adding an Insert option in the CD Drive’s Context Menu […]