Tip: Organise and Speed-Up Context Menus

[steve]

This small tip shows how you can use Opus to rearrange the context menus you see when right-clicking files. Opus allows you to add, remove and move items, including those put there by other applications.

A new and related function has been added to Opus since the tip was made. If you hide 3rd party context menu items you can use this command to show them all in the same place (eg a submenu) without having to list each one explicitly.

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Filetype CONTEXTMENU CONTEXTOPTIONS=windowsonly

If you are having trouble finding a Context Menu's CLSID in the registry you may find it easier to enable Context Menu Debugging (ContextMenuDbg) so that Opus prints out the CLSIDs of all context menu handlers that it invokes. To enable ContextMenuDbg, follow the steps in the FAQ on diagnosing a crash due to a 3rd party context menu handler, under the heading Finding The Culprit.

[Leo Davidson]

[J-Mac]

Hi Leo.

Not sure where that setting is located. The only things I could find are:

• Settings>Miscellaneous>Advanced> "allow context menus*" and "ignore context menus*" - doesn’t say True or False like others but has an asterisk next to them.
  
• Settings>Miscellaneous>Windows Integration>Hide Windows items on context menus - I do have that selected.

Is it one of those? Or something else?

Thanks!

Jim

[leo]

It's Hide Windows items on context menus. Must've been renamed slightly since the thing above was made.

[leo]

Scratch that reply, I just checked and it's named exactly the same as in the root post's screenshot:

• Settings > Miscellaneous > Windows Integration: Hide Windows items on file context menus (shift overrides)

Are you running a translated version of Opus or something?

I just typed "hide windows" into the filter box to find it:

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