[AIO] Ultimate Tutorial to Customize Desktop Context Menu in Windows Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7

We have posted a few tutorials in past to customize Desktop context menu in Windows Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7. With the help of these tutorials:

You can add your desired application shortcuts in Desktop context menu e.g. Windows Media Player, Firefox, Winamp, Opera, Chrome, etc.
You can add new useful options like Change Wallpaper, Change Theme, Change Cursor, Task Manager, Folder Options, Device Manager, Run, Search, Aero On/Off, etc in Desktop context menu.
You can add any website link in Desktop context menu.
You can remove unwanted options like your Graphics card settings from Desktop context menu.

Here we are listing all these tutorials in one place so that you can access them whenever you want without wasting your valuable time:

1. Using following tutorial, you can add any desired application shortcut in Desktop context menu:

Add Your Favorite Application Shortcut in Desktop Context Menu

2. Following tutorials can help you in adding lots of useful options like Change Theme, Change Wallpaper, Folder Options, Task Manager, etc in Desktop Context Menu:

Add Useful Shortcuts in Desktop Context Menu Part I
Add Useful Shortcuts in Desktop Context Menu Part II
Add Device Manager, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs in Desktop Context Menu
How to Add Run, Search and Window Switcher aka Flip 3D in Desktop Context Menu
How to Add Aero ON / OFF Shortcuts in Desktop and My Computer Context Menu

3. Using following tutorials you can make your Desktop context menu in Windows Vista and Server 2008 look-a-like Windows 7:

Get Windows 7 Look-a-Like Desktop Context Menu in Vista

4. Using following tutorial, you can add any desired website link in Desktop context menu:

Add AskVG.com or Other Website Link in Desktop Context Menu

5. Following tutorial helps you in removing unwanted graphics card entry from Desktop context menu:

How to Remove Save Schemes & Other Entries from Desktop Context Menu

This article was posted in Windows 7, Windows Vista.

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12 Comments

Nikolaj

wow nice tuturial
FaRReR

any way to do this in XP, by any chance?
Ingnition

Wow, Now my context menu is happy
Kishan Bagaria

@FaRReR

Visit the following link:-Get Windows 7 Desktop Context Menu in XP, Add “View”, “Display Settings”, “Gadgets” & Other Options
pierdelp

Hi!
how can we add icons at left of the new shortcuts labels (like for 'Personalize') ??

thx
VG

^^ We can't.
Piyush

Whenever I click on a image file;its context menu shows two preview options & one of them opens image as well as copy to,move to dialogs,
Please help me out.
FaRReR

I believe there is a tut for that on this site.
Kaash

Can we also add icons to them as in Windows 7
VG

^^ No.