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Windows Context Menu Editor

Create & delete Windows context menu with json config file.

Build Requirement

.NET Core 5.0

Tested Platform

Windows 10 20H2

Build

$ dotnet build

Run

Currently create context menu on specific file extension require UAC elevation to write registry under HKEY_CLASS_ROOT.

Run with dotnet run is not able to popup a UAC dialog and will throw an exception.

Command-line Arguments

Create context menu with specific config file.

$ ./ContextmenuEditor.exe create ./config.json

Delete context menu defined in specific config fire.

$ ./ContextmenuEditor.exe create ./config.json

Config File

See config-example.json

{
  "directory": true,
  "directory_background": true,
  "drive": true,
  "file_extensions": [".txt"],
  "key": "TestCtxMenu",
  "command": {
    "name": "Context Menu Test",
    "sub_commands": {
      "Foo": {
        "name": "Command Foo",
        "shell": "Command Foo %1"
      },
      "Bar": {
        "name": "Command Bar",
        "shell": "Command Bar %1"
      },
      "SubMenu": {
        "name": "Sub Menu",
        "sub_commands": {
          "Foo": {
            "name": "Command Foo",
            "shell": "Command Foo %1"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

This will create a context menu on hard-drive, directory, directory background and *.txt file like this:

-----------------------
| ...                 | ---------------
| Context Menu Test > | | Command Foo |
| ...                 | | Command Bar | ---------------
----------------------- | Sub Menu  > | | Command Foo |
                        --------------- ---------------

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