Windows 10: How to add Install CAB item to the Context Menu of Windows 10

CAB or Cabinet files are the packages mostly released by Microsoft and other OEMs as a source of offline installation of Windows Updates and even driver updates. But many users find it difficult to install CAB or Cabinet Files on [...]

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CAB file - Add Install to Context Menu in Windows 10


Ah, ok. That was just an example.

Merging the .reg file in step 2 should have added "Install" to the context menu of .cab files for you.

As a test, you could just rename a new .txt file's extension to .cab to see if "Install" is added or not.

 

Install CAB file in Windows 10  


Hello Nick,

The "Install" context menu item is not there by default. It'll need to be added first.

CAB file - Add Install to Context Menu in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

This is for Windows Update KB type .cab files though.

 

Modify Title of Context Menu Item


This is curiously difficult. No one utility seems to offer a complete list of context menu entries as far as I know.

For example, using Shellmenuview, you can access the relevant entry in Regedit. For some it appears to offer the ability to change that text:



That's an installed program.

For others, it doesn't.



(That's a default Windows program....).

Note too the text appears in multiple places where the program is associated with multiple extensions.

The venerable ContextMenuEdit allows you to edit the text, but again, this is non-trivial- consider here the extension list supported by vlc player, undifferentiated in the left column:




To be consistent, each one would have to be edited- then if you changed player, all that would be lost.

Basically this, I suggest, is not worth pursuing except in very specific cases should there be a real need.

Considering the impact of upgrading, changes to installed program context menu entries should not be affected. Changes to Windows default entries- if that's even feasible, which I doubt, as I believe the text isn't in the registry, would be restored to default.