Always Display the Full Context Menu in Windows 7
Written by Alan Friday, 27 January 2012 07:00
The right-click context menu in Windows 7 is handy, but it has obvious limitations. It only displays a handful of the options that are actually available when you right-click an item, leaving out many options that users may actually want. There are solutions that can fix this. For instance you can hold down the Shift key while right-clicking or you can modify the menu displayed, which isn’t particularly complicated, but still a hassle and not something you want to explain to a computer novice.
Now an app for Windows 7 called “Full Context Menu” will enable all of the options in the right-click menu without need to hold down the Shift key or modify Windows 7. Best of all it’s a portable app so you can stick it on a USB drive and take it with you wherever you go. Full Context Menu enables the full context menu in Windows Explorer, and displays the extra items including the explorer window, Downloads, Favorites, Links, My Documents, My Pictures, Desktop and other options.
You can launch the app the from the system tray when your USB drive is plugged in and you can right-click the app to pause it if you have any reason to do so. The first time you launch the app on a new system it will give you the option to always launch it on startup – of course, the drive needs to be plugged in for this to work.
The app has been fully tested to work on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. You can download the app, and the source script if it interests you, from the programmer’s website. It’s a free app, but if you like it you can make a donation.
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