Secrets of Productive Work on the Computer
Context menu in Windows
The menu is the most important element of the graphical user interface, with which you can select the desired program option.
Types of menus in the computer:
by execution - text and graphic
by function – application main menu, pop-up, context and system menu
What is a context menu and how to call it
A context menu is a separate kind of menu on a computer; list of available commands for working with this file.
Where is the context menu?
Its storage location is the Windows Registry, which consists of two sections. One part of the programs is stored in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell section, the other part is stored in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers section.
How does the context menu open?
There are different ways to call the context menu
At the bottom of the keyboard, between the "ALT" key and the "CTRL" key, there is a special button. It shows the additional features and actions available for this file. It usually has a sign and a mouse pointer on it. This button brings up the context menu.
It is used if it is necessary to highlight the shortcuts of the necessary files, as well as inside already running programs. When you click on this button, the context menu is called according to the current situation.
Right mouse button on the keyboard is also successfully replaced by this button.
This method is for those who prefer to use the keyboard, while the context menu can also be opened with the mouse.
Hovering the mouse over the desired file, select it with a left click. Right-clicking on a selected area will open a context menu. When several items are selected, the context menu will display the actions available for the selected group of files.
How to open the context menu when working on a laptop or netbook? On these devices, the mouse function is transferred to the built-in touchpad. The context menu is called by clicking on the selected area with the right button.
How to customize the right click context menu
For the right mouse button, a simple Context Menu Tuner program will help you configure the context menu. It will tell you how to customize the Windows 7 context menu.
Consider how to set up the right mouse button.
Download and run the program
The program interface consists of two different panels: the left one contains a list of commands supported by the program, the right one includes the OS explorer areas. Set the Russian language in the settings
We add a command. To do this, select it on the left side and "connect" with the preferred element on the right. Click "Add".
Other commands are added similarly.
To remove a command, select it and click "Delete"
The right-click context menu is now configured.
In this lesson, we will take a closer look at the functions of a very useful key that is on any keyboard. This key is called the "Context menu key". It is located in the lower right part of the keyboard between the ALT and CTRL keys.
When this key is pressed, the CONTEXT MENU is called up, exactly the same as if you pressed the RIGHT mouse button.
The feature of this button is that the menu called up when pressed will display functions (menu items) that can be applied in the current program, in the active window, on the desktop, etc. Those. this menu adapts to the process in which you are directly working, and this is very convenient.
Now let's take a closer look at the main options for displaying the context menu in different environments and the functions that can be performed using this menu.
1. Pressing the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context menu" key on the Windows desktop
For Windows 7
When you press the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context Menu" key on the Windows 7 desktop, a menu of the following form appears:
1. At the very top of the menu - setting parameters your video card.
2.View- setting the display of icons on the desktop
3. Sorting- setting sorting by displaying icons on the desktop
4. Refresh- updating the display of content on the desktop.
5.Insert- if you copied something, you can paste it on your desktop.
6. Create. Here you can create on the Desktop: a folder, a shortcut, a text document, an archive, MS Office documents - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. (if installed)
7. Screen resolution. Here you can set the necessary screen settings: select a screen (there may be several), find out or set the screen resolution, determine the screen orientation, and also configure other screen settings, for example, connect a projector.
8. Gadgets- selection and installation of Windows 7 gadgets. There is no such function in Windows XP.
9. Personalization. Here you can customize the appearance of the Desktop, change the background, splash screen, sounds, theme, window color, etc.
For Windows XP
In Windows XP, as many of course know, the context menu looks simpler, but performs almost the same functions.
When you press the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context Menu" key on the Windows XP desktop, a menu of the following type appears:
1. Using the first menu item Arrange icons we can perform the following operations:
Screen resolution configured on the tab Parameters
2. Pressing the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context menu" key on a file or folder in Explorer or any other file manager.
When you press the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context Menu" key on a file in Explorer or any other file manager, the menu is also adjusted to a file of a certain type. For example, I clicked by video file. The following menu opens:
In this case, the menu offers functions that correspond specifically to the video file: play, add to the list of the player that is selected by default for this file type. And a number of standard functions: open with, add to archive (if an archiver is installed), send, cut, copy, delete, rename and file properties.
If you click the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context menu" button on a graphic file, then a menu will open that will correspond to the graphic file type:
Here you can immediately open, edit or print the selected file in the default image program. In my case, this is the ACDSee program.
Here you can immediately make the selected file a background image for the Desktop, very convenient when choosing from a large list. And then there are again the standard functions for working with files.
In Windows XP, there are no special differences,
standard functions for working with a file are called by the command Change
I will dwell in more detail on the points “Open with” and “Send”.
Benefits of the "Open with" feature
Here you can select or assign any installed program that understands the selected file format to work with the selected file. In this case, I clicked on a video file and several programs can work with this format on my computer: Light Allow, WinAmp and of course Windows Media Player.
If the list does not contain the desired program, but you know for sure that it is installed, select the menu item "Select program". Windows will prompt you to select programs from a list of recommended or other programs.
In Windows XP, the appearance of this window is slightly different, but the meaning is the same:
If you want the selected file format to always be opened by the program you choose, then check the box "Use the selected program for all files of this type".
If the desired program is not in the list of recommended programs or in others, but you know for sure that the program is installed, then press the button "Overview…" and select it from the folder where the program is installed.
What is the use of the "Submit" function
Using this function, you can send (transfer, transfer) the selected file via BlueTooth (bluetooth), skype, mail, to the desktop, to archive, to write to a CD / DVD disc, to a USB flash drive etc.
3. Pressing the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context menu" key in any Internet browser.
And here, too, the menu adapts to different situations, depending on where you click on the web page. For example, if you click link, then the following menu will open:
With this menu, you can open the contents of the link in a new tab or window, bookmark the link, send the link, copy the link, if the link is a file, then you can save it with "Save Target As...". If you have download programs installed, you can download the contents of the link with their help.
If you click the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context menu" key by image on web page, then a menu with other functions will open:
Here you can copy the image to the clipboard and paste it, for example, into a Word document, you can save the image to your computer using "Save Image As ...", send the image by mail, make the selected image the desktop background, find out information about the image (type, size, file name), etc.
Let me summarize. In this lesson, we looked at the most popular options for using the context menu, which is called by clicking the RIGHT mouse button or pressing the "Context Menu" key on the keyboard.
Namely:
1. Pressing the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context menu" key on the Windows desktop
2. Pressing the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context menu" key on a file or folder in Explorer or any other file manager.
3. Pressing the RIGHT mouse button or the "Context menu" key in any Internet browser.
The essence of this lesson is to learn how to use the useful features of the specific active environment of your computer. In any environment, by clicking the RIGHT mouse button or by pressing the "Context Menu" button, you will receive a list of useful functions available at the current time, relative to the selected object.
Many people like the Windows operating system, and many of us grew up with it. But some casual PC users - or those who have just switched to Windows - often get confused looking for information about some of the simple things that run Microsoft's operating system. One of these widget elements is called the "Windows context menu" or "right-click menu".
Today we will tell you not only about this integral element of interaction with Windows, but also about a third-party application that allows you to add custom elements to the context menu.
So what exactly is the Windows context menu?
In simple terms, this is a pop-up menu that appears when you right-click in any navigation area of the screen (hence the name "right-click menu"). The context menu can be accessed from folders, the taskbar, web browsers, and other areas of the GUI. The context menu is not exclusive to Windows, so you may have seen it on other operating systems, including Mac OS X or Linux.
Speaking about the appearance of the Windows context menu, it looks almost the same everywhere - only the elements inside it differ. For example, the screenshot below shows the context menu that opens when you right-click on the desktop, say to set the desktop background image in the Personalize window.
Usually, the context menu carries such elements as "View", "Sort", "Copy", "Paste", "Rename", "Properties", etc. Some of the menu items are context based. In other words, in one of the areas of the operating system, the context menu may contain some items, and in another - already others. For example, the menu that pops up when you right-click on the taskbar will contain completely different items compared to the menu that you see in the screenshot below.
Here is another simple example of the context menu that appears when you right-click on a folder:
Now that you've learned what the context menu in Windows is and how it works, let's take a look at a handy and free application with which you can easily customize the menu.
A portable application that allows you to add custom items to the "right-click menu" in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 was developed by Sergey Tkachenko (WinAero) - a well-known developer who is the author of many useful tools, including . The application is very convenient in the sense that the whole process of adding items to the context menu requires several clicks from the user.
To get started, launch the application. The Context Menu Tuner interface consists of two different panels - the left one contains a list of supported commands, and the right one consists of Windows Explorer panes. To add a command, you need to select one of them in the left panel, and then, after selecting your preferred element in the right panel, you must click on the "Add" button. As you might guess, the "Delete" button is responsible for deleting the added commands.
Additional features of the application allow you to add separators before and after certain menu items. In addition, there are a couple of additional options.
Another interesting feature of the application is its ability to add custom commands for specific file types. When you open the "Select File Type" window, accessed by clicking on the "Append -> Append to Specified File Type" button in the application's main window, you'll see an impressive number of file extensions supported. The list is very long, so to quickly find a specific file type, use the search bar.
The screenshot below shows my context menu, which I modified using the Context Menu Tuner:
That's all. Now you know what the Windows context menu is and you know a simple solution to edit it.
Have a great day!
In order for the computer to understand the user, and the user to explain to the computer what he wants from him, there are elements such as menus (there are several types) and graphical interface. We will devote this publication to one of the categories related to this topic - how to call the context menu in Windows and what it is.
The menu is a Windows GUI element
When people talk to each other, they do not think about the fact that the language of communication is one of the types of interface.
"> In principle, the user, when issuing commands from a set of available lists, receiving requests from the OS, opening windows, using scrollbars, uses a graphical interface without thinking about what it is.GUI
The concept of an interface is quite broad. If we talk about the Context Menu (English), as a component of the graphical interface, then we should imagine it as an element of a dialogue with the operating system (computer).
Calling
Context Menu is a list (list, set) of commands available to the user relative to some object. Now let's look at how the context menu opens. Before opening the context menu, you need to place the cursor (mouse) on some object (activating it). And after that, you can call it in different ways:
- Right mouse;
- The combination of "shift" and "F10";
- Also, the context menu is called by pressing a special button - it is located between "ALT" and "CTRL".
The set of its commands can be different and depends on which object it was called on (in which area of the screen):
Filling
The Context Menu is sometimes also called the "Explorer" or "Actions" menu. Its external appearance does not really depend on the object of the call, which cannot be said about the different filling it with commands.
Compare the Context Menu called on the desktop:
with Context Menu called over the folder:
Feel the difference?
Conclusion - this set of possible actions depends on what type of object it is applied to in a particular case (file, shortcut, folder, desktop, etc.).
Pay attention to the first figure - if a triangle-arrow is visible at the right end of the list line, then this means the existence of a submenu in it (in this case, the submenu directory is opened).
Adding Shift
If, when calling the Context Menu with the right mouse, we add to this the pressing of the “Shift” button, we will see a list that has increased from one to several lines (on the right). This sometimes gives additional convenience:
The menu is the most important element of the graphical user interface, with which you can select the desired program option.
Types of menus in the computer:
- by execution - text and graphic
- by function – application main menu, pop-up, context and system menu
What is a context menu and how to call it
A context menu is a separate kind of menu on a computer; list of available commands for working with this file.
Where is the context menu?
Its storage location is the Windows Registry, which consists of two sections. One part of the programs is stored in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell section, the other part is stored in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers section.
How does the context menu open?
There are different ways to call the context menu
- At the bottom of the keyboard, between the "ALT" key and the "CTRL" key, there is a special button. It shows the additional features and actions available for this file. It usually has a sign and a mouse pointer on it. This button brings up the context menu.
It is used if it is necessary to highlight the shortcuts of the necessary files, as well as inside already running programs. When you click on this button, the context menu is called according to the current situation.
Right mouse button on the keyboard is also successfully replaced by this button.
This method is for those who prefer to use the keyboard, while the context menu can also be opened with the mouse.
- Hovering the mouse over the desired file, select it with a left click. Right-clicking on a selected area will open a context menu. When several items are selected, the context menu will display the actions available for the selected group of files.
- How to open the context menu when working on a laptop or netbook? On these devices, the mouse function is transferred to the built-in touchpad. The context menu is called by clicking on the selected area with the right button.
How to customize the right click context menu
For the right mouse button, a simple Context Menu Tuner program will help you configure the context menu. It will tell you how to customize the Windows 7 context menu.
Consider how to set up the right mouse button.
- Download and run the program
- The program interface consists of two different panels: the left one contains a list of commands supported by the program, the right one includes the OS explorer areas. Set the Russian language in the settings
- We add a command. To do this, select it on the left side and "connect" with the preferred element on the right. Click "Add".
Other commands are added similarly.
