Windows 10: How can apps be added to the "Share" context menu?

I really don't understand some of the quirks that Windows 10, store apps, etc have introduced. This is a big one. It seems like the only way to share anything pictures etc from within the file Explorer is to

1. Have the "store version" of the app installed.
2. Perform some sort of black magic ritual, dancing naked under a full moon bathed in the blood of Pokémon.

Seriously except for #2, I can share to Instagram, I could share to Facebook before I deleted it's really really bad app, I can send it to "Mail" again, not a fan, or OneNote—but that's about all I can dofrom the context menu. I can't even send a photo to Word or Outlook, which seems like a no-brainer. Can I go stomp around in the registry and make it share stuff to other apps? I tried to root that possibility out with Process Explorer, but didn't have much luck.


This is what the share menu is meant to do, so why can't it do that? My Android phone has about 5,042 apps it can share things to, some of them in several different ways, yet Windows 10 seems unable to figure it out?

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Custom context menu entries

So, just throwing this out there, in case somone knows.

I have added a custom context menu entry for the program rightload, since by default the menu is broken in vistax64.

It works pefect with single files, but when I select mutiple files and try to open, I get mutiple instances of the program (which makes sense), here is my entry:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Rightload\Rightload.exe --server=1 --autostart %1

So the %1 passes the filename to the program, and when I select multiple files it is just opening multiple instances of rightload each with a different file.

What I'd like to do is be able to pass a list of the files selected to the program. Since I know it is capable of uploading multiple files from the context menu, all in one instance.

So, is there something I can pass besides %1 that will do this? I have looked around and can't seem to find an answer anywhere... *Frown

 

Add or Remove Start Context menu items

Nyima,

I was not asking about adding and removing regular app items to the start menu, but rather adding or removing items from the Context Menu (Win+X). Specifically, I would like to add the Devices and Printers item to the list.

Thank you for the response.

 

CCC Context menu

I was recently greeted to a new entry in my desktop context menu after installing 8.12 drivers with the Catalyst Control Center:





I have no idea what the second entry does, since clicking it results in nothing happening.
So I open up CCC and find this new section:





It's completely disabled. I only have a single HD3850. The IGP on my mobo is nVidia, which is disabled anyway.

I spent the last hour or so finding a way to remove the second entry, and this is the only thing I could find:
Deleting this key removes both entries from the context menu
Code: KEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ACE[/quote] This solved one problem and caused another. I do not like the tray icon, so I have it disabled, so the only way I know to get into CCC is via the context menu. Does anyone know of a way to disable just the "Configure Additive Graphics" entry and keep the CCC entry?

If I kept both disabled, is there some sort of shortcut I could make to get there instead? I don't want to have to go to Display->Settings->Advanced->CCC every time.
EDIT: Just made a hotkey to get there. *Smile