I've begun customizing my context menus in ver 9.5. I've played w/ it a bit, changing a few items and I think i've got the hang of it. My plan is to leave the Windows entries disabled in Dopus options and manually enter just the ones I want into the appropriate CM. But I have questions:
-- If I go to Settings > File Types > All Folders > File Type > Context Menu there are 11 3rd party shell extension entries already listed here that do not show up in the native DOpus CM. Some of them I want to add to my customized CM but how can I add them if they're already listed there (but not showing)?
-- If I RMB on a folder (rt pane) I see all the entries that i've added plus OPEN, EXPLORE & SEARCH. Since they're not listed under the entries for either "All Folders" or "Files & Folders" how can I remove these 3 unwanted entries?
-- I have an autohotkey utility that shows in my existing Windows CM but it doesn't appear to have a GUID. I checked the script, the install log and did a reg search. It has the exe listed under "HKCR*\shell\createshortcuthere\command" and that's it. Also ran DebugView w/ no luck. How can I add it as a command w/o a GUID?
-- I have an AV app that i've added to the CM. But the text that actually shows on the CM is much too verbose and I want to edit it. I searched the reg w/ no luck for the specific string. I opened both the dll that gets called when this CM entry is clicked on and the actual exe in RegHacker, looking for the specific string but, again, no luck. Any hints as to where the string that's actually displayed in the CM is usually found in the reg? Or can I edit this in DOpus somewhere?
-- I want to also mod the CM for Drives - where do I find the config menu for editing this CM? (also I notice that blocking the Windows shell extensions in DOpus options does not seem to apply to the CM for drives - my CM is a mile long)
-- There are CM entries that show up only for specific file types. IE: MERGE appears if you RMB on a reg file. Some of these I want to keep and some I want to delete. How can I do this?
Turning off "Windows context menu items" really means turning off 3rd party (i.e. non-Opus-specific) context menu items. The option has a misleading name.
So those items are all turned off. You can put them back in by creating items which run the same commands but have the "run an Opus command" type.
The Open, Explore and Search items are filetype verbs. You can see them on the Actions tab of the file type editor. Do not delete them as it will break things which depend on them, e.g. double-clicking on folders would stop working. They can't be hidden.
Copy the command you found in the registry to a context menu item with the "run an Opus command" type, like in the first answer.
HKCR* corresponds to All Files and Folders in the Opus file type editor.
It depends on the program. If the menu is installed via a GUID then the string will probably be within the program itself.
Editing a program's DLLs isn't a good idea as it may check itself to ensure it hasn't been modified. (That's especially true with an anti-virus tool.)
Most AV tools have command-line arguments which you can use to create your own context menus which do the same things as the menus they provide by default. If the menu item has been installed via a GUID then hiding it and creating your own item which does the same thing via the command-line is probably the best bet, if you want something that does the same thing but has a custom name.
Drives in Opus show the standard/full Windows context menu at the moment. They can't be customized.
Usually by editing the .reg type's context menu.
Some programs install a handler/GUID on the * type instead, and make that handler decide at runtime which types it will appear on. In that case you just force it on like any other GUID and it'll work the same as it usually does. (Turning off 3rd party menu items and then forcing on a particular GUID will not make that GUID appear for anything it didn't appear for before. It just re-enables it.)
Hopefully the mgt will put the ability to modify the CM of drives on their To-Do list as it doesn't make a lot of sense to fix some CM's and leave other's broken.
Ok, i've finished moding my context menus EXCEPT that I can't find a GUID for XP's "Sendto" menu. I assume it has a GUID but a reg search came up empty. I ran DebugView but that didn't see "Sendto" either.