Author Archive
How to Add Group Policy Editor to Control Panel
If you find yourself using the Group Policy Editor all the time, you might have wondered why it doesn’t show up in the Control Panel along with all the other tools. After many hours of registry hacking, I’ve come up with a registry tweak to let you do just that.
You can’t manually make the registry [...]
Encrypt / Decrypt Options to Windows 7 / Vista Right-Click Menu
If you use the built-in file encryption in Windows 7 or Vista, you might be interested in adding an option to the right-click menu to more easily encrypt and decrypt your files, rather than having to use the file properties dialog.
Adding this to the menu couldn’t be simpler – there’s only a single registry key [...]
How to Add Disk Cleanup to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive
Using the Hack
After installation, you can simply right-click on a drive and choose “Disk Cleanup” from the menu:
If you are using Windows 7 or Vista, you’ll be asked whether you want to clean up your files or all files…
And then disk cleanup will begin:
Manual Registry Hack
Open up regedit through the start menu search or run [...]
How to add Defragment to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive
After manually applying or downloading the hack, you’ll have a new item on the right-click menu for your drives…
Which will start up the command-line version of Disk Defragmenter (after accepting the UAC prompt)
Manual Registry Hack
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
Create a new [...]
How to Add Copy To / Move To on Windows 7 or Vista Right-Click Menu
There’s a registry hack for Windows that will let you add a Copy To Folder or Move To Folder to the right-click menu, which can be very useful when you want to move a file but don’t have the other folder open already.
Right-click on a file:
And up pops a nice dialog that you can use [...]
How to Add Control Panel to the Desktop Right-Click Menu in Vista
when you right-click on the desktop you’ll see a new menu item called Control Panel:
Once you select that item, obviously it will immediately open up Control Panel:
Of course you could use the same technique to add any item into the context menu, or you could even use the same location in the registry to remove [...]
How to Add Any Application to the Desktop Right-Click Menu in Vista
We’ve previously written about how to clean up your messy Windows context menu, and recently we’ve written about how to add the Control Panel to the desktop menu, but instead of writing separate articles for each application I’m just going to show you how to add anything to the menu that you’d like.
If you don’t [...]
How to Add an Application to the Quick Launch Menu in Vista
The Quick Launch menu is one of the most useful features in Windows, and Vista makes it even easier to add a program to the menu.
For those of you that are total newbies, the quick launch menu is the little icons by the start button:
You can either drag an application to the quick launch bar… [...]
How to Add a new File Type to Indexing in Windows Vista
Windows Vista has a new built-in searching engine that is completely integrated into the operating system, but not all files are indexed. To add a new file type to be indexed, you just have to follow a couple of steps.
To get to the indexing service panel, just type index into the start menu search box, [...]
Take Ownership to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Win 7 or Vista
Taking ownership of system files or folders in Windows 7 or Vista is not a simple task. Whether you use the GUI or the command line, it takes far too many steps.
Thankfully somebody created a registry hack that will give you a menu item for “Take Ownership” that will handle all the steps for you. (If [...]
“Run as Administrator” to Any File Type in Windows 7 or Vista
Have you ever tried to unzip a file to the Program Files directory in Windows 7 or Vista? You’ll get all sorts of permission denied errors, and generally be unsuccessful. So how do we open up the zipfile as an administrator? For that matter, how do you open any file as administrator?
There’s a simple registry [...]
