Advance Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 No longer do you need to use 10 different programs to make your right click menu the way you want it, you can do it with a shell extentsion and ResHacker (oy, that one again ^^). You can add shortcuts to programs or folders, you can take out and rename parts of the menus already built in, and you can even add bitmaps to the menu. This is actually a very simple process if you can edit text files (omgsoezzz!1one) and use ResHacker. The ResHacking is the hardest part! What you will need: ResHacker Replacer Grigri's ContextAware A Text Editor Byblos.dll Command Prompt The ResHacking So lets get the tough part done, editing the menu's that make up the damn context menu. Fire up RH and open shell32.dll Starting at menu 207, you can edit or take out parts of the context menu. The properties part is at 211, cut copy etc 210, a lot of it on 215, 216, etc. Look through there and fix it how you want it. Don't add anything yet, we don't need to. Once you are hapy, do the usual deal. Compile the menu, save it to any folder, back up shell32.dll and replace it using Replacer. Restart, if you like it move on, if you don't, you can edit it, rinse and repeate. Moving on to the programs.. Download and extract ContextAware to Program Files and open up "GotoMenu.txt" I will show you what mine looks like so you hopefully can understand whats going on here. ->- >Folders ->Windows,'goto:%windir%' ->Desktop,'goto:C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.MATT-1425202C69\Desktop' ->Program,'goto:C:\Program Files' >Programs ->ResHacker,'goto:c:\program files\reshacker\reshacker.exe' ->Replacer,'goto:c:\program files\replacer\replacer.cmd' ->- ->Firefox,'goto:c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe' ->Foobar,'goto:c:\Program Files\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe' The form for adding something is: ->[i]Name[/i],'goto:[i]Path[/i]' To make a seperator, use: ->- For a submenu title use: >[i]Name[/i] and for a entry in that subfolder use: ->blah So play around and see what you come up with. Now for the last thing the image. Now I haven't founda good image for the theme I am going for so I dug up a old bmp to show you guys. This one is pretty easy to do and understand, the limitations to the image is it must be a .bmp, and it must be no bigger than 96x96px. So first off you need to dl the Byblos shell extension and extract the dll to the system32 folder. (You can put it anywhere, I say here so you won't move it). Once you activate it, you can't move it. Next go to run and type cmd and hit enter. Type in (or copy and paste) regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\Byblos.dll and hit enter. Then go to your desktop and right click.. you will see a crappy picture that looks like a big turd. If you like turds on your desktop, your done with this guide, have a nice day, if not read on. First you need to fine / make / edit a image and make it 96x96 and a bitmap. Save it to your desktop. When done, fire up ResHacker and open byblos.dll in ../system32/ Go to bitmaps and replace the bitmap with the one of your choosing and save it. Restart explorer by pressing ctrl alt delete and ending explorer.exe and then clicking File> New task, and tyle in explorer.exe and hit enter. Right click again and wallah. Questions problems complaints to this thread or to mattalldian at gmail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoLdFuSi0n Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 wow very good tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advance Posted August 16, 2005 Author Share Posted August 16, 2005 Thanks a lot, I will be writing more and more now that I have gotten back into the community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oompa Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Sweet thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare2 Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Very usefull (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advance Posted August 17, 2005 Author Share Posted August 17, 2005 If anyone has done any of the things I mentioned in the above guide, please post a screenshot, because when I finally start updating my website again, I would like to have others outcomes as well as mine. Thanks -Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZappBrannigan Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Wow that looks very interesting, ill try some of that out later. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Very good guide will give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pre Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Wow nice! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.O.B. Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Nice guide. Thanks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilpig Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 I like that, is it for only right clickin the desktop or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advance Posted September 2, 2005 Author Share Posted September 2, 2005 Any right click in explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_demilord Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 without any 3rd party applications ResHacker Replacer Grigri's ContextAware Byblos.dll :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advance Posted September 2, 2005 Author Share Posted September 2, 2005 Those are shell extensions and ResHacker / replacer are not needed after you are done modding the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulmiz Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 really really really nice and helpful stuff for me thanx a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advance Posted September 2, 2005 Author Share Posted September 2, 2005 Np mate, would yall be interested in more reshacking guides? More non shell custimization? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bid1 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 I added that in there. it looks good and useful. But when I execute a program (right click..) i get this annoying window titled 'File Download - Security Warning' Do you want to run or save this file? How do i get rid of this? ThanX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevcart3 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Thanks for this guide, really helped me clean a lot of clutter off of my context menu. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advance Posted September 7, 2005 Author Share Posted September 7, 2005 I added that in there. it looks good and useful. But when I execute a program (right click..) i get this annoying window titled 'File Download - Security Warning' Do you want to run or save this file?How do i get rid of this? ThanX 586485835[/snapback] I'm guessing you run SP2? I'll install sp2 and look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Red Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I added that in there. it looks good and useful. But when I execute a program (right click..) i get this annoying window titled 'File Download - Security Warning' Do you want to run or save this file?How do i get rid of this? ThanX 586485835[/snapback] I'm having the same problem. But as for everything else, it looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advance Posted September 8, 2005 Author Share Posted September 8, 2005 http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20041119.IESP2Unpatched.php I'm not doing it, I like my extensions.. try it though, I'll keep looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 (edited) very nice guide :yes: thanks! edit: does anyone know where to remove arrange > modified+type+size? Edited September 14, 2005 by slimy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advance Posted September 15, 2005 Author Share Posted September 15, 2005 It's in menu 215. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted September 15, 2005 Veteran Share Posted September 15, 2005 Nice guide :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStoo Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Great guide indeed thank you :D . It helped me alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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