How to add icon to context menu (right click drop-down)

@yrret -

Does this help?

How to Add Icon to Right-Click Menu in Windows 7 and higher

That's your browser's context menu.

I can find an addon.

Hello @yrret,

yrret said:

I have spent the last few hours searching how to add icon to context menu (right click drop-down).
I found lots of regedit suggestions but none worked with my version of W10.

What I want to do is place an icon on the item "Search Google for..."
Please note in my snapshot that there are icons for some of the drop-down items.

Does this help? => How to Add Change Icon to Context Menu of New Libraries in Windows 10.

I have customised my Context Menu and given each item an icon that I preferred. For example, you can either use the default icon, or something like this small snippet from a .reg file once you have found a .ico that you want to use . . .

Code:

"MUIVerb"="View Owner"
"Icon"="C:\\Users\\System-Admin\\System-Admin_Icons\\MyViewOwner.ico"
"Position"="Top"

I hope this helps!

@yrret -

Be very careful in the registry. Glad that @Callender pointed that out. Whew!

Make a backup of your registry in any case.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/322756/how-to-back-up-and-restore-the-registry-in-windows

Better to be safe than sorry!

Terry,

There is a fundamental misconception running through this thread.
- You are not trying to alter your context menu.
- You are trying to alter a context menu set up by an application.
- The two subjects are different.
- Most of the advice you have been receiving is about adding or altering your own context menu in File explorer [which is not the context menu in question - see Callender's post #4].

I suggest that you can only do what you want if somebody else has done it before and has documented the job sufficiently clearly for you to be able to follow their procedure. If there is a solution, it is bound to involve sophisticated alterations to the Registry or Google's files.
- If that context menu entry was created by some third-party utility / add-on then try looking in their support site.
- You could try a general internet search on the subject or a search in Google support or a search in Google's user forums {if there are any} but I do not expect that you will find a solution even if you waste half your life looking.
- Given your earlier comment about Registry editing, I think it would be a waste of your time to continue looking into this unless Callender's post takes you forward in some significant way. Get on with your life instead.
- Addn - Somebody else has said that they think I'm doing you down. I am not. I am suggesting what I think is your best course of action.

Denis

Try3 said:

- You are not trying to alter your context menu.
- You are trying to alter a context menu set up by an application.
- The two subjects are different.

Grain of truth but that's what customizing is. You have to be careful!
Too much work for the smallest gain, in this case.