Sadface. :(

I customize my right-click context menu a lot.

One thing I haven't been able to figure out is the following: I want a new context menu entry to ONLY appear if I have folders AND files selected at...

That's awesome! I don't have much AHK experience but would love to dive in. Thanks much for creating that. Care to share the code?

Correct. I have a working registry entry above that does exactly what I need and what you describe above. Unfortunately It just opens to the first tab instead of the second. It's a minor nuisance to...

No it doesn't. Brink even said himself that Apply to Folders will be greyed out if you use that command. That's what I need access to: Apply to folders.

Yeah :( I figured that out earlier, the whole purpose of adding this entry is to quickly get to the Apply to Folders button so I can easily flip between default folder views.

If you have any other...

Some Background

I'm big on customizing my context menus, and I have edited the registry to include a context menu item that appears when you right click the background of a directory. The context...

I misspoke when I said "anywhere in the C drive". You're correct, I it doesn't work in places where i don't have necessary permissions. I want to create new files in either Program Files folder (x64...

Great! Happy to hear my installation isn't corrupted. Thanks for taking a look at it!

This isn't my problem. All of the defaults are available and I can make them appear by adding "ShellNew" registry values in "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.extension" where "extension" is the filetype you want...

I just reinstalled my OS (Windows 10), and then added ShellNew entries in the registry for various filetypes. The menu works on the desktop. But anywhere in the C drive it just shows a new folder...

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Just wanted to give you a heads-up. The Non-UAC version of your script (The one that you need to create a task for) fails when the target directory has a ^ (Caret) or & (Ampersand) anywhere...

Hi all,

I just wanted to share an alternative to the current solution (Open Command Prompt Here). This solution will also handle apostrophes or special characters in the target directory. Here's...

I got one better for you guys. A StackOverflow user who has a ton of experience guided me to a much more robust solution:

Run Windows PowerShell (5.1) as admin (Even in folders with an apostrophe...

I have been pulling my hair out trying to find a solution for this. Powershell 7 doesn't have this problem:

C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe -WindowStyle Hidden...

Ahhhh! It all makes sense now. :)

I am really confused as to how this works. I'm trying to customize the menu so that there is no submenu.


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\PowerShell7x64\shell\openpwsh\command]...

I have an exe that runs PowerShell scripts (or any executable) completely hidden. It's called
RunHiddenConsole.exe (GitHub - wenshui2008/RunHiddenConsole: Hide console window for windows programs)...

Awesome! Thanks so much for the solution.

Awesome to see this has been solved! Great work CXwudi. Brink: I don't see the .reg for running WT as admin using CXwudi's modification. Am I missing something?

So I've spent quite a long time customizing my Win10 context menu to get it just right:

Folder Context Menu:
348834

Folder Background Menu:
348835

Desktop Background Menu:
348836

Thanks all for the replies!

I actually got it to work with this:


C:\Tools\scripts\singleinstance.exe "%1" run-hidden powershell.exe -file C:\Tools\scripts\AddSelectionToFolderSI.ps1 $files...

I am creating a new right click context menu entry. It's located here: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\FileUtilities\shell\a_addtofolder

The script uses Powershell, singleinstance.exe (GitHub -...

Is there any workaround to this yet? Really need this functionality! Would appreciate any help at all.