The Windows context menu is handy, but you can tailor it to better suite your needs.
The menu that appears when you click on a shortcut, an icon, or an element of the Windows interface is called the context menu. It’s called this because the options you see contained within this menu are contextual and not always the same. Right click on the Start button, and you will see different options than if you right click on a Microsoft Word document, for example. But even though the very idea of a context menu is to provide you with options that are applicable to the item you’ve right-clicked on, you may feel that there are some options missing. Conversely, there may be options listed that you never use and you would like to get rid of in the name of keeping things streamlined. This could be because there are things you simply never do with files and applications, or it might be that software you have uninstalled hasn’t properly tidied up after itself, leaving you with menu entries that do not serve any purpose. Here we’re going to look at both of these scenarios as we show you have to tweak the context menu to your liking. With tweaking and customization remaining as popular as ever with Windows users, you’ll probably not be surprised to learn that there are numerous apps that can be used to customize things. We’re going to take a look at the appropriately named Easy Context Menu. The program is a portable app, meaning that it does not even need to be installed – you can just download it and run it.
