Who doesn’t love a shortcut? Thanks to the guy who programmed in the right click menu, we get to take some of them while working or browsing on the computer. Here at MakeUseOf we have looked at some of the ways to add more power to the right click menu.
Earlier we have looked at ways to customize the right click menu on your own or use the free ‘Mmm’ to do it for you. We have also looked at ways to clean up all the rubble from the right click context menu here. But here I am back again looking at three more ways to give my right click menu a booster shot.
The Right-Click menu is one of the most messed with pieces of Windows. If you have installed a large amount of applications, your right-click menu can become quite large and eventually just take way too long to load.
Of course, it is possible to remove and add options to the right-click menu. Both of which can be quite productive and fun. (There was a previous article Customize Your ‘Send To’ Right-Click Windows Menu written by Jimmy on how to add more options to the “Send To” field. Some other article related to Windows right lick menu can be found here.)
If you’re like me, you frequently need to move the same types of files to the same places over and over again. While you could keep a shortcut pointing to that location on your Desktop, there’s an even easier (and more flexible) way to quickly move files to a favorite place. The secret lies in the “Send To” command found in your right-click contextual menu.
If you are the type of person who likes to try out lots of new applications or if you just like to click ‘next, next, next’ while installing software, chances are that you may have some bloatware and possibly messed up your right click context menus.
Well if that is the case or you simply want to play along and customize the right click menus then you need mmm…. mmm..
Download it and we will see how you can use it. What’s “IT” ? Oh….sorry in case you are wondering about the software I am talking about (but I already mentioned its name (twice!)) its “Mmm”. Download it here.
I am always looking for ways to do things faster and one of those things is to shut down the computer faster, or log off a particular XP user account. It gets a little irritating having to always go through the start menu so I started experimenting with desktop shortcuts to streamline the process. Now I am trying out a feature which you can use using the right-click button on your mouse. It’s called Clickzap.
Before we continue with our registry tweaks, why not put a shortcut to the registry on your desktop? It sure beats going through the start menu…
Just right-click on the desktop, choose ‘new‘ then ‘shortcut‘. In the target box, enter ‘C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe‘ . Click ‘next’ and enter your shortcut name (such as “Windows Registry”) then save and close. You now have a desktop shortcut to the registry.
OK, now using that shortcut, let’s see how else we can tweak Windows to our advantage…..
Bypass the Win XP welcome screen and automatically log into your Windows account
Posted by makeuseof guest-writer Mark O’Neill
1. Edit / customize the “Send To” right-click option
When you right-click on a file in Windows Explorer, you have a “send to” option which can launch a program or send that file to another folder.
You can delete or add new destinations by going to the following Explorer destination
C:\Documents andSettings\username\SendTo (replace “username” with your Windows account username).
As I delve further and further into how the PC works and I start to get involved in more technical projects, I am finding myself increasingly using the command prompt window. These days, the command prompt window is kind of made redundant by the fact that everything can be done by clicking on a link or icon. Let’s face it, why type in C:\Program Files\Skype\Skype.exe in the command box when you can just go to the start menu and click on the link?
I bet you have seen the following Windows error message quite a lot :
That is enough to make you want to rip your hair out in frustration. You want to move, rename or delete a file in your hard drive but you can’t because, according to your lovely Windows operating system, the file is “currently being used by another person or program”. The chances are though that actually the program is locked up in some obscure system process that will take forever and a day to clear. Meanwhile you want to do something to that file immediately and not be a slave to Bill Gates by waiting for Windows to tell YOU when it’s ready. That’s where Unlocker will rapidly become your best buddy.
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