Tag: CONTEXTMENU

Last week we shared a Google Chrome extension with you that adds installed apps to your right-click context menu. It's a very welcome enhancement, since you normally need to hit Chrome's new tab page to launch a Chrome Web app. You know what would fit nicely right below apps in Chrome's right-click menu? Access to your bookmarks, of course! And as you can see in the screenshot, there's an ...

Here's a little tidbit which was new to a few of us on the Download Squad team... When you right-click a YouTube video, there are site-specific options in addition to the Flash defaults! Some of you may be face-palming right now, so if you already know about this, feel free to move on with your life. If you don't, definitely file this under "good to know": By default, the Flash context menu is ...

Chrome's inability to set an image as desktop wallpaper is a shortcoming I've harped on before. It's a feature that just about every non-power user I know who tries Chrome wishes was there -- but even at version 8 Chrome still can't do some things that Internet Explorer 6 could. A little while back, the Chrome Pig extension arrived -- finally bringing a third-party solution. Still, it's a bit ...

Want a way to put dozens of handy commands within two-click reach? Download FilerFrog and bolt it on to your context menu, and you'll have a wide array of new tools available via your right mouse button as you browse your files and folders in Explorer. Unlike some context menu multi-tools, FilerFrog installs only a single item on the top level of the context menu -- everything else is tucked ...

Image Resizer Powertoy Clone is a neat, free Windows utility, that doesn't forget to give credit where credit is due. I've never used the original Powertoy, but I can tell you its clone lets you very easily batch-resize image files. You get a single context menu entry (yes, another one) that says "Resize Pictures". When you select several image files and click this entry, a simple-looking dialog ...

Let me start off by saying I am not a huge fan of the Windows file context menu. On my system it contains twenty eight separate entries, just on the main menu (not counting sub-menus). It's an abominable UI pattern, and I wish it would be replaced by a simple command-entry interface, like Microsoft did with the Start menu. I mean, how many people actually use the "menu" part of the Start menu in ...

One of Windows 7's slick new features is its handling of VHD (virtual hard disk) files. You can use them for a number of handy functions - from discreetly archiving files and folders to booting a full-fledged Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 install via your Windows 7 boot.ini. But VHDs aren't as easy to work with out-of-the-box as they could be. To mount and unmount, you've got to ...

My mouse has two buttons, and dammit, I'm going to use them both. The Windows context menu is a trusted tool, and I rely on it heavily. Moo0's Right Clicker makes several welcome additions to the default options. I particularly like the folder bookmarking feature, which makes it a snap to navigate between folders in any explorer view. Couple it with the copy to and move to features, and managing ...

One of my favorite Windows features is the SendTo menu, but it can also be one of the most frustrating ones. Until you get it set up to your liking, an new install of Windows can be a real pain in the rear. Also, you never seem to realize exactly how you'll need it configured until you reach a point where you're trying to use it to copy or move a file or folder, and realize that the destination ...

PowerMenu is a small utility that adds a few options to the system menu on any application. This is the menu you get when you click on the icon on the top left of the application's window, or if you right-click on the system's entry in the taskbar. What options do you get? Well, for me the most interesting one is the ability to set the priority of the running program without having to go through ...

If you’ve been running on the same installation of Windows for any length of time, you may have noticed that some of the software you install adds options into the right-click menu, otherwise known as the context menu. While this can be handy, it can get out of hand when there are a lot of entries, particularly when you rarely use the vast majority of them. Windows can also take some time to ...