Add, Remove, Edit Context Menu items in Windows 10 with Context Menu Editors

The Right Click Menu or the Context Menu is the menu, which appears when you right-click on the desktop or a file or folder in Windows. This menu gives you added functionality by offering you actions you can take with the item. Most programs like to stuff their commands in this menu. While they can be useful, the problem is that even when you uninstall the programs, they fail to remove the respective context menu item, making the menu slow and appear cluttered. Context Menu Editors can help you manage your right-click context menu items in Windows 10/8/7.

Edit Context Menu in Windows 10

If you wish to reduce this clutter or remove items from this menu which are no longer useful, you can do so. Most programs will offer the explorer integration in their Settings, and if you look around, you may be able to find it and disable the File Explorer context menu integration. If not, you will have to edit the registry or use a third-party freeware.

Using Registry Editor

Run regedit to open the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Here you need to simply delete the keys you don't want. There are other registry locations too where this data may be stored.

Context Menu Editors for Windows 10

You can also use 3rd-party freeware context menu editors to remove context menu items or to add or edit them. Go through the list and see which supports your version of Windows OS.

Ultimate Windows Customizer, Right-Click Extender, Ultimate Windows Tweaker, & Context Menu Editor
ContextEdit
ShellExtView or ShellMenuView
Easy Context Menu
MenuMaid
File Menu Tools.

1) Ultimate Windows Customizer, Right-Click Extender, Ultimate Windows Tweaker, & Context Menu Editor

Some of our following freeware like Ultimate Windows Tweaker will help you edit the right-click context menu easily.

Ultimate Windows Customizer, Right-Click Extender , Ultimate Windows Tweaker, and Context Menu Editor are freeware releases from TheWindowsClub, and you may want to check them out. They have been developed for Windows 7 but may work on Windows 10 too.

2) ContextEdit

ContextEdit will allow you to easily control the items that appear on your context menu of Windows File Explorer.

The context menu often contains submenu rarely-used commands. These commands come from one of two places: shell commands stored within the system Registry, and context menu handlers. Get it here

3) ShellExtView or ShellMenuView

You can also try ShellExtView or ShellMenuView. They are small utilities that display the list of static menu items that appear in the context menu when you right-click a file/folder in Windows Explorer and allow you to easily disable or edit unwanted menu items.

4) Easy Context Menu

Easy Context Menu freeware will let you add a Program or Icon to the right-click menu.

5) MenuMaid

If you are you looking for a fast and easy way to clean up your Window Explorer and Internet Explorer right-click context menu, try MenuMaid.

Simply download the portable freeware app MenuMaid and uncheck the items you don't want to show up. It also lets you disable or remove items from the Internet Explorer context menu. If you want to restore them, check them again.

6) File Menu Tools

File Menu Tools (link removed) lets you add, delete & customize the context menu items of the Windows Explorer - but it NOW comes bundled with a lot of crapware, according to the comments below.

It lets configure the following aspects:

Add some build-in utilities in order to do operations over files and folders.
Add customized commands which let run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
Configure the “Sends to… ” submenu”.
Enable/disable the commands which are added by other applications to the context menu and much more!

TIP: Read this post if you want to remove items from the “New” Context Menu.

Do let us know, how you manage to keep your Explorer right-click context menu clean and tidy!