Add icon to Right-click Context-menu.

[enuffsaid]

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody would know how to add an icon to the right-click context menu. Just like the WinRAR icons you see there.

Say I would like to add the little DOS-box icon to the "open command window here" context menu item, how would I go about doing this?

Thanks,

eNuffSaid

[Wraith]

You can do the command prompt thing via the registry.

For things like winrar, with icons and submenus, you will need to write an explorer shell extension dll.

Look at MSDN for the latter, I'm sure somehwere on MSFN there's a way to do the command prompt thing via registry.

[jdeboeck]

first of all they are not icons, they are 13x13 bitmaps. there color is logically anded to the color of the menu (if the menu is white you'll see their actual color, if the menu is dark gray, the bitmap will show all dark and colorless)

and finally it can only be done with a shell extension dll, just like winzip and winrar. You can't easily do it yourself. There is an all purpose shell extension that you can customize to your needs though... try google "context menu extension dll"

[enuffsaid]

Thanks folks. I'll look into the shell extension. Thanks for your replies.

Kind regards,

eNuffSaid