Windows 10: how to show context menu items only when holding shift

i have some context menu items that i dont want to remove only show them when i hold shift.i leanred that i can do this by setting the registry at key `HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\[file extension]\shell\[item name]\Extended` to "".it worked but when i try it on `HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\[file extension]\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\[item name]\Extended` it didnt work.sys info:Edition Windows 11 Home Version 23H2 OS build 22631.3593 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1003.0 Device name DESKTOP-MKJ2UT4 Processor IntelR CoreTM i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.80 GHz Installed RAM 32.0 GB 31.9 G

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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.

 

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.

 

Create Shortcut on context menu

If you press Shift key while right clicking file or folder the Send to context menu will list lot more locations for you to send the selected item.