How to Add Your Name in Desktop Context Menu in Windows XP?

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As you all know about my "How to enable “VIEW” Menu on Desktop in Windows XP" tutorial which teaches you how to enable View menu in Windows XP Desktop context menu just like Windows Vista:

Many people have asked me how did I add my name on top in Desktop context menu as shown in above screenshot? So today I decided to write a small tutorial about it.

So here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to add any desired string in Desktop context menu:

1. Open “%windir%\System32\Shell32.dll” file in resource hacker and go to:

Menu -> 215 -> 1033

2. Now add following line:

MENUITEM "xyz", 33333, MFT_STRING, MFS_GRAYED | MFS_DEFAULT

Just after the:

215 MENUEX
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
POPUP "", 0, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED, 0
{

3. Replace "xyz" with any string which you want to add, e.g.

MENUITEM "!*~.VISHAL.~*!", 33333, MFT_STRING, MFS_GRAYED | MFS_DEFAULT

4. Click on "Compile Script" button.

5. Save the file and restart your Windows to see the affect.

BONUS TIP: You can remove "MFS_GRAYED" or "MFS_DEFAULT" or both to have some different look. "MFS_GRAYED" is used to disable the text, if you'll remove it, your name will look like an enabled item. "MFS_DEFAULT" is used to show the text in Bold, if you'll remove it, your name will be shown as normal text instead of Bold.

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105 Comments

CytoxX

Hey Vishal,

Many has asked the question and i will too now, is it possible to add this in vista?

Thanks in advance

-:CytoxX:-
VG

^^ Sorry but these hacks are not working in Vista. I have tried them but no success.
CytoxX

wauw quick reply!

damn... and system32\YOURLANG\shell32.dll.mui dosnt work either?

:'(

well thanks!
VG

^^ I have tried them but no luck.
CytoxX

sad,...

Well i got one single question i hope you would answer here..

i wanna add "open in new window..." to my context menu. but it shall only show up when the rightclick is on/in a folder... i guess thats simple enough to open in new window.. just something like "explorer.exe %1" but this "open in new window..." must ONLY apear when a folder is clicked...

where and how do i do it? i know its possible but im not surre how
any ideas?

-:CytoxX:-
ER

oh...... its not working here..... i already did all the instructions but nothing happened,,,..
M.F.Khan

Hi Vishal,

This gonna be my first query, I've had my name in desktop context menu sucessfully as per your above instructions but i've noticed whenever i restart my pc there's a file pop-up with title desktop and has the following text, and the extension is desktop.ini

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787

And then I removed the view menu and my name from desktop context menu using resource hacker but still the same file pop-up on every restart.

Please advise...

Regards,
M.F.Khan
VG

^^ This file is a configuration file. Don't worry about it. You can set it Hidden from its properties.
M.F.Khan

^_^ Thanks dude..
M.F.Khan

Hi Vishal,

Thank you so much for your prompt respond to my last query, Can you please advise in which section of yours I can find about " TELNET", As I'm curious about for the following stuffz.

mail to:
rcpt to:

when the recipient ABC@yahoo.com receives the e-mail, FROM & TO both lines are blank and the subject aswell.

I dunno if is related with your tutorials & tricks.

Looking forward to receive your abrupt respond.

Regards,

M.F.Khan