How to Customize Right Click Menus for
Special Folders
Till now you simply learnt how to delete the special system
folders by deleting a registry key, but the hack would have been
better if there was a way of adding the DELETE and RENAME option
to the right click context menus of these special folders. You
can actually change the right click context menu of any system
folder and add any of the following options: RENAME, DELETE,
CUT, COPY, PASTE and lots more.
This hack too requires you to know the CLSID value of the
system folder whose menu you want to customize. In this section,
I have taken up Recycle Bin as the folder whose context menu
I am going to edit.
First launch the registry editor and open the following registry
key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder.
In case you want to edit some other folder like say the FONTS
folder, then you will open the following key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CLSID VALUE HERE}\ShellFolder.
In the right pane there will be a DWORD value names attributes.
Now consider the following options:
1.To add the Rename option to the menu, change the value of
Attributes to
50 01 00 20
2. To add the Delete option to the menu, change the value
of Attributes to
60 01 00 20
3. To add both the Rename & Delete options to the menu,
change the value of Attributes to
70,01,00,20
4. Add Copy to the menu, change Attributes to
41 01 00 20
5. Add Cut to the menu, change Attributes to
42 01 00 20
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