正在寻找免费程序来自定义或编辑桌面或Windows资源管理器(Explorer)的右键单击上下文菜单(context menu)？我认为人们使用Windows而不是Mac的主要原因之一是因为在(Mac)Windows中右键单击某些东西更自然。那么，为什么不增强右键单击菜单，使其比现在更有用呢？
在本文中，我将介绍几个我一直使用的非常有用的右键单击上下文菜单(context menu)编辑器。这些额外的菜单选项可以帮助您更快地浏览 Windows 并更轻松地执行文件操作。
文件菜单工具
FileMenu Tools是一个漂亮的小应用程序，可以非常轻松地向上下文菜单(context menu)添加更多选项。您可以将内置实用程序添加到对文件和文件夹执行某些操作的上下文菜单中。(context menu)基本上，它只是将一项添加到主右键单击菜单中，然后可以自定义一项以具有您选择的预配置选项的数量或数量。
以下是您可以使用FileMenu 工具(FileMenu Tools)执行的其他一些操作，它们可以让您在资源管理器(Explorer)中更高效地工作：
- 能够向上下文菜单(context menu)添加自定义命令，让您运行外部应用程序、复制/移动到特定文件夹或按特定文件类型(file type)删除文件等。
- 能够在Explorer中配置(Explorer)发送(Send)到子菜单选项。
- 能够启用/禁用其他应用程序添加的上下文菜单上的命令。(context menu)
我真的很喜欢FileMenu Tools，因为它可以让您完成一些非常复杂的任务，如果没有它，这些任务将非常乏味！以下是您可以添加到上下文菜单(context menu)的一些选项：
同步文件夹(Synchronize Folders)-同步两个(Synchronizes two)文件夹。可以配置同步类型(synchronization type)（单向、双向等）和要同步的文件类型。
扩展删除(Extended Delete)– 需要立即删除您的所有PDF(PDFs)？此项从文件夹中以递归方式删除特定文件类型。文件类型使用通配符指定，例如：*.txt、*.t?? 等。
拆分和加入文件(Split and Join File)- 将选定的文件拆分为多个部分，然后重新加入之前拆分的部分。如果您正在寻找文件拆分器(file splitter)，您可以使用此程序获得更多功能！如果您只是在寻找一个文件拆分器(file splitter)，您可以查看我不久前写的一篇文章。
复制名称(Copy Name)——我喜欢这个实用程序，因为它将所有选定元素的名称复制到剪贴板。因此，如果您想将文件夹中所有文件的列表转换为文本文件(text file)，您只需选择它们，右键单击并选择Copy Name即可。
更改时间(Change Time)– 更改选定元素的创建时间(creation time)、最后访问时间(access time)和最后写入时间。如果选择了一个文件夹，则可以递归地更改下面所有文件和文件夹的时间。
文件夹(Size of Folders)大小 - 显示文件夹的大小。使用此实用程序快速(Quickly)查看文件夹的大小。
切碎文件(Shred Files)-让(Lets)您明确切碎选定的文件，因此无法使用高级恢复工具恢复文件。
如果您不需要右键单击上下文菜单(context menu)中的所有这些选项，您只需在程序界面(program interface)中取消选中它们即可。最好先玩一下每个，看看你是否真的会使用它。他们包含的 30 或 40 个选项中我只有大约 5 个，但我经常使用这 5 个。此外，您可以自定义“发送(Send)到”菜单并通过其他选项卡从其他应用程序添加/删除命令，如下所示。
总的来说，它是一个很棒的免费软件应用程序，具有大量功能。如果您正在寻找一种方法来自定义Explorer(Explorer)中的右键菜单，那么这是实现此目的的终极工具！它基本上将许多较小的应用程序组合成一个集成的多合一实用程序！
右键单击上下文菜单加法器
文件菜单工具(File Menu Tools)很棒，但它仍然不允许您将项目直接添加到右键菜单中。相反，它会创建自己的主菜单项(menu item)，然后在子菜单中添加所有其他选项。这不一定是坏事，因为我已经看到它在右键单击时不会导致性能问题。(performance problem)直接添加到上下文菜单(context menu)的程序有时会变得非常慢，特别是如果你添加了一堆新的菜单项(menu item)。
无论如何，Right-Click Context Menu Adder是一个很好的实用程序，用于自定义(Right-Click Context Menu Adder)Windows中的主右键菜单。只需下载(Just download)它并运行该程序，幸运的是它甚至不需要安装。
File Menu Tools(Whereas File Menu Tools)是一个更加用户友好的工具，而Context Menu Adder则完全是关于自己做的。没有预先配置的选项或可供选择的选项。您必须决定要添加到上下文菜单(context menu)中的项目类型（程序、文件夹、网址或其他），选择您的选项，然后添加它。
我主要使用这个特殊的工具来添加文件夹和网站。我发现这真的很方便，因为我倾向于一直在资源管理器(Explorer)中打开同一组文件夹，这为我节省了大量时间。添加程序时，您可以选择EXE、MSI 或批处理文件(MSI or batch file)。如果您有喜欢在计算机上运行的脚本，可以将它们添加到上下文菜单(context menu)中以便于访问。
除此之外，您只需选择通常会自动从EXE中拉出的图标，选择位置并选择要在上下文菜单(context menu)中显示的文本。您还可以选择仅在按下SHIFT 键(SHIFT key)然后右键单击时显示新选项。我发现此功能非常有用，因为它通常不会弄乱(t clutter)您的右键菜单，但仅在您需要时才使用。
最后，您选择是否希望它仅出现在桌面上下文菜单(desktop context menu)上或文件夹上下文菜单上。如果您选择第二个选项，只要您右键单击Explorer中的空白区域，您就会看到菜单。在这里，我在我的右键菜单中添加了一个随机文件夹和 IE ，一个在底部，一个在顶部。(folder and IE)
如果您想删除任何内容，只需单击第二个选项卡，您就可以删除添加到上下文菜单(context menu)中的任何内容。除此之外，该程序实际上没有任何其他选项或功能。它可以很好地完成它的工作，我实际上将它与文件菜单工具结合使用，因为它们让您可以使用(File Menu Tools)上下文菜单(context menu)做不同的事情。
简单的上下文菜单
我喜欢向朋友推荐的另一个程序是Easy Context Menu。它有一个非常简单的界面，您基本上只需检查您想要的不同上下文菜单(context menus)的所有内容。
我喜欢这个程序的地方在于，它确实通过系统上存在的几乎所有类型的上下文菜单来分解选项。(context menu)您可以将某些内容添加到仅桌面右键单击、我的电脑右键单击(My Computer right-click)、仅文件夹右键单击(folder right-click)等。
这就是它的工作原理。找到您要编辑的上下文菜单(context menu)，然后选中您要添加的菜单项的复选框，然后单击顶部带有绿色加号的小鼠标按钮。(mouse button)这会将更改应用到注册表。完成后，单击顶部的工具，然后单击(Tools)重新启动 Windows 资源管理器(Restart Windows Explorer)。
重新启动Explorer后，您将在右键单击时立即看到更改。唯一需要了解的另一件事是三列的工作(columns work)方式。Icon只会在上下文菜单中的(context menu)菜单项(menu item)旁边显示一个图标。Shift + Click将启用或禁用。如果启用，您将仅在按住SHIFT 键(SHIFT key)时看到该项目。最后，位置是您希望菜单项(menu item)出现的位置。您可以通过选择它然后单击顶部的编辑来更改列出的每个项目的这三个选项。(Edit)
您将看到Use Icon、No Icon、Enable Shift、Disable Shift、Position等部分。此外， active 表示该项目已选中，而 passive 表示它只是未选中。这(Thi)是一种奇怪的设置，所以这就是我在这里提到它的原因。
因此，希望这三个工具之一将帮助您完全按照您想要的方式配置您的右键单击上下文菜单。(context menu)如果您有其他工具做得更好，请在评论中告诉我们。享受！
Free Tools to Customize the Right-Click Context Menu
Looking for a free program to customize or edit the rіght-click сontext menu for the desktop or for Explorer in Windows? One of the mаin reasоns I think people use Windows over Mac is because right clicking on ѕomething is more natural in Windows. So whу nоt suрercharge the rіght-click menu to make it even mоre useful than it already is?
In this article, I’ll cover a couple of really useful right-click context menu editors that I use all the time. These extra menu options can help you navigate Windows faster and perform file operations more easily.
File Menu Tools
FileMenu Tools is a nifty little app that makes it super easy to add a bunch of more options to the context menu. You can add built-in utilities to the context menu that perform certain operations over files and folders. Basically, it just adds one item to the main right-click menu and that one item can then be customized to have as many or as few of the pre-configured options you choose.
Here are a couple of other things you can do with FileMenu Tools that make working in Explorer more efficient:
- Ability to add customized commands to the context menu which let you run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder, or delete files by specific file type, etc.
- Ability to configure the Send To submenu option in Explorer.
- Ability to enable/disable commands on the context menu that were added by other applications.
I really like FileMenu Tools because it allows you to accomplish some pretty complicated tasks that would be very tedious to complete without it! Here are some of the options you can add to the context menu:
Synchronize Folders – Synchronizes two folders. It is possible configure the synchronization type (unidirectional, bidirectional, etc.) and the file types which you want to have synchronized.
Extended Delete – Need to delete all the PDFs on your immediately? This item deletes recursively specific file types from a folder. The file types are specified with wildcards, for example: *.txt, *.t??, etc.
Split and Join File – Splits the selected file into various parts and then rejoins the parts which were previously split. If you’re looking for a file splitter, you can get that plus a ton more features using this program! If you’re looking for just a file splitter, you can check out a post I wrote a while back.
Copy Name – I like this utility as it copies to the clipboard the name of the all selected elements. So if you want to get a list of all files in a folder into a text file, you can simply select them, right-click and choose Copy Name.
Change Time – Changes the creation time, the last access time, and the last write time of the selected elements. If a folder is selected, it is possible change the time recursively for all files and folders underneath.
Size of Folders – Displays the size of the folders. Quickly see how large a folder is using this utility.
Shred Files – Lets you shred the selected files definitely so it is impossible to recover the files with advanced recovering tools.
If you don’t need all those options in the right-click context menu, you can simply uncheck them in the program interface. It’s best to first play around with each one and see whether you’ll actually use it or not. I only have about 5 of the 30 or 40 options they include, but I use those 5 quite often. Also, you can customize the Send To menu and add/remove commands from other apps via the other tabs as shown below.
Overall, it’s a great freeware application that has a ton of features. If you’re looking for a way to customize the right-click menu in Explorer, then this is the ultimate tool for that purpose! It basically combines many smaller apps into one integrated all-in-one utility!
Right-Click Context Menu Adder
File Menu Tools is great, but it still doesn’t let you add items directly to the right-click menu. Instead, it creates its own main menu item and then adds all the other options in the sub-menu. This is not necessarily a bad thing because I’ve seen that it never causes a performance problem when right-clicking. The programs that add directly to the context menu can sometimes make it really slow, especially if you add a bunch of new menu items.
Anyway, Right-Click Context Menu Adder is a nice utility for customizing the main right-click menu in Windows. Just download it and run the program, which thankfully doesn’t even require an install.
Whereas File Menu Tools is a much more user-friendly tool, Context Menu Adder is all about doing it yourself. There are no pre-configured options or options to choose from. You have to decide what type of item you want to add to the context menu (program, folder, web address or other), choose your options and then add it.
I use this particular tool for the ability to add folders and websites mostly. I have found that really handy since I tend to open the same set of folders in Explorer all the time and this saves me a bunch of time. When adding a program, you can choose from an EXE, MSI or batch file. If you have scripts that you like to run on your computer, you can add them to the context menu for easy access.
Other than that, you simply choose the icon, which is normally automatically pulled from the EXE, choose the position and choose the text you want to show up in the context menu. You also have an option to only show your new options when you press the SHIFT key and then right click. I found this feature to be really useful as it doesn’t clutter up your right-click menu normally, but only when you need it.
Lastly, you choose whether you want it to appear only on the desktop context menu or on that and the folders context menu. If you choose the second option, whenever you right-click on an empty space in Explorer, you’ll see the menu. Here I have added a random folder and IE to my right-click menu, one at the bottom and one at the top.
If you want to remove anything, just click on the second tab and you’ll be able to get rid of anything you added to the context menu. Other than that, there aren’t really any other options or features to the program. It works well for what it does and I actually use it in combination with File Menu Tools, since they kind of let you do different things with the context menu.
Easy Context Menu
Another program that I like to recommend to friends is Easy Context Menu. It’s got a very simple interface where you basically just check everything that you want for the different context menus.
What I like about this program is that it really breaks the options down by pretty much every type of context menu that exists on the system. You can add something to just the desktop right-click, to My Computer right-click, to only a folder right-click, etc.
So here’s how it works. Find the context menu you want to edit, then check the boxes you for the menu items you want to add and then click on the little mouse button at the top with the green plus sign. That will apply the changes to the registry. When you have done that, click on Tools at the top and click on Restart Windows Explorer.
Once you restart Explorer, you will see the changes appear immediately when you right-click. The only other thing you have to understand is the way the three columns work. Icon will simply display an icon next to the menu item in the context menu. Shift + Click will either be enabled or disabled. If enabled, you’ll only see the item when you press and hold the SHIFT key. Lastly, the position is where you want the menu item to appear. You can change these three options for each item listed by select it and then clicking on Edit the top.
You’ll see sections for Use Icon, No Icon, Enable Shift, Disable Shift, Position, etc. Also, active means the item is checked whereas passive means it’s simply unchecked. Thi is kind of an odd setting so that’s why I mentioned it here.
So hopefully one of these three tools will help you configure your right-click context menu exactly the way you want. If you have another tool that does a better job, let us know in the comments. Enjoy!
