DeskIntegrator: Portable Utility to Add Program Shortcuts in Windows Vista and Later Desktop Context Menu

We have blogged about a detailed tutorial in past which teaches you how to add your favorite program shortcuts in Desktop context menu in Windows Vista and later:

How to Add Program Shortcuts and Other Useful Shortcuts with Icons in Windows 7 and Later Desktop Context Menu?

It requires some registry skills. One of our regular reader “Masroor Aijaz aka JX Great” has created an excellent tool called “DeskIntegrator” which allows you to add your favorite program shortcuts in Windows Vista and later Desktop context menu quickly and easily.

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Its a portable utility so you don’t need to install it. Simply download the ZIP file, extract it and run the EXE file.

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To add program shortcut in Desktop context menu:

Type desired program title in “Title” textbox which you want to show in Desktop context menu. Then either type the path of its EXE file or click on the browse button and select the program’s exe file. You can also select a .ico file to show an icon for it but the icon will only show in Windows 7.

At last click on “Add/Modify” button and it’ll immediately add the program shortcut in Desktop context menu.

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To remove program shortcut in Desktop context menu:

Go to “Remove Menu” tab and select the program shortcut which you want to delete. At last click on “Remove” button.

Its very simple and easy to use tool. Thanks to JX Great for creating it and sharing it with all of us. 🙂

UPDATE: We are pleased to announce that this tool has been featured in various tech magazines such as official Windows magazine and a few German magazines.

PS: Also check out another similar tool released by us:

Right Click Context Menu Adder: Utility to Add Program Shortcut in Desktop Context Menu

Published in: Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. This is super handy. I’ve got it to launch Splinter Cell Conviction, Apache Air Assault and a couple of other games are on it when I have them set to the shift menu, and photoshop on the normal menu. This is one heck of a handy tool – especially if you don’t particularly want to see too many icons on your desktop! Brilliant job.

  2. I installed DeskIntegrator on my Win8.1 and everything seemed to go fine. I used it to add a new editor selection to the right-click menu and that seemed to finish fine but the new item is not there when I right-click on a file! Any suggestions?

  3. NO Nee laa Votch non Na Nee Nah Nein Iie bú shì Não Net Hapana neyn NO!

    WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG!

    I’m a user. It doesn’t work.
    If I run as an admin, it DOES!

    In what way is setting a user’s context menu an administrative task?

    Surely context menus can be local to a user, not global for all users?

    Nowhere on this page can I find a reference to admin, permissions, nor privileges.

    Please! We are NOT all administrators.

    Please make the point in all your posts that to perform many of the things you discuss you need admin rights, either from elevated prompts or programs or from an admin, any admin, account.

    Alternatively, design and test your programs from a standard user’s sign-in.

    We use our computers from a (limited) users account for everyday activity, surely?

    We used to have unrestricted control all the time with Windows 95, but the world is a far more dangerous place these days and we have moved on. Our computers are directly tapped into the world-wide internet and all its voracious crookedness. There is absolutely NO reason to use our machines with administrative rights for general usage, IMVHO.
    Do you keep your doors locked? Do you use passwords? Where are your keys right now? Why do you have any?

    Remember, as an administrative user, you give any piece of malware that gets access to your computer the same rights as you have – which is to say, ALL of them.

    ‘As an administrator’. Please use where necessary, or enable execution as a user where appropriate.

  4. @PhredE
    We need to run this program as administrator because it needs to modify Windows Registry to add/remove entries in context menu. All similar tools available on Internet require same permission.

    I’m using this program since years and never faced any issue. You can trust VG and his apps.

  5. Aún funciona y ¡en Windows 10 22H2!

    Translation:

    It still works and on Windows 10 22H2!

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