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A manager for the classic Windows context menu, and for the new Windows 11 one.
ctxmenu reads what is in your right-click menu, shows where each entry lives in the registry and which program put it there, and lets you hide, sort, delete or create entries. Every change is backed up before it happens.
Getting started
Download, first run, and the six tabs.
Everything it does
The complete list, and the limits with their reasons.
How it compares
The other tools for this menu, and where this one differs.
Working the list
Columns, sorting, search, and what the detail pane shows.
Editing the menu
Five levels from hide to delete, and what each one writes.
The Windows 11 menu
Both halves of it, and what belongs to Explorer.
Favourites
A list that stays, and how a file reaches a web tool.
Services
Twenty-one built in, and two hundred more from a single OpenAPI address.
Service formats
Which curl lines the program can reproduce, and which it cannot.
Backups and restore
Why a change cannot happen without one.
Keeping it up to date
The self-update, and the signature it checks first.
From the command line
Subcommands and flags, for scripts and for reading.
Building it yourself
The toolchain, the commands, and what goes wrong.
What it sees
The scan covers eleven base categories across three registry areas: HKCU,
HKLM, and the 32-bit view under WOW6432Node. On a machine that has grown
over the years, those eleven hold 142 entries; resolve the file types as well
and the scan reaches 938.
Verbs and COM handlers are listed apart, because they are different things. A verb is a registry key holding a command. A COM handler is a CLSID that a DLL implements, and for one of those the list shows the plain-text name of the CLSID and the path of the DLL behind it.
What it will not do
Some limits are the platform's, not the program's. Windows generates the text of a COM handler at run time, so no registry reader can know it. The order of entries in the new Windows 11 menu belongs to Explorer. And the commands Explorer builds into that menu itself, such as "Send to my phone", carry no registration at all, which means nothing can list them and nothing can hide them.
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