What’s This About?

CMenuExtender is a small utility that will allow you to create your own Windows Explorer context menu. (That’s the menu that appears when you right click on a file or folder in Windows Explorer).

Why Would You Want It?

The Windows Explorer right click context menu can be very useful for carrying out all sorts of operations and commands. Many programs add their own commands to the context menu when they are installed to help with the program. Have you ever wanted to be able to copy or move a file to a specified directory as the following screenshot shows:

Here you can see items added by the Teracopy, WinRar, WinZip and Unlocker programs, all of which help in using the program>

With CMenuExtender you can create your own specific commands to do a wide variety of things, such as running specific programs to open particular files, moving or copying files to specific directories, running a DOS command, get information on the file and many other thins including user specified items.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

• Creates User Defined Contwext Menus in Windows Explorer
• Allows the menus and items to be edited
• Allows the menus and items to be moved
• Comes with a number of predefined commands

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

• Freeware

• Versatile
• Simple
• Low Resource Use
• Source Code Available

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

• GUI could be a little better
• Not completely intuitive
• Help could be more extensive for advanced commands
• Can create a command structure that stops the whole Context Menu system working*

* Frequently test the commands in explorer as you create them in CMenuExtender to see if problems occur. This way you will see the offending command straight away and be able to remove it

More About What it Does in Detail:

Go to Page 2 for details and screenshots

Go to Page 3 for ProReviewer Summary

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