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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 10:17 am
Posted by Ricer46
(23822 messages posted)
It's hard for me to understand the purpose of either one of those concepts. Double
clicking is so easy.
On Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 10:10 am, bigbro_51 wrote:
>I have a question about Customize
>Context Menus:
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>Is there a way to add the Window's Quick Launch Toolbar and it's subfolders to context
>menus? Or to add a folder of applications that I could launch from context menus?
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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Posted by DocCrain
(786 messages posted)
I suspect that the reason for your question is to be able to access your applications
when the screen is full without needing to minimize your current work. If that is
your desire, try this: Right click your taskbar>Toolbars>new toolbar. In that dialog
box, first left click "Desktop" (at the top of the window list) and then in the lower
left select "Make new folder." A new folder will appear on your desktop. Drag that
folder to the margin of your screen(left/right/top) and drop it there. You now have
a new toolbar. A right click on the toolbar header will give the options for "Always
on top," and "Auto Hide." Any shortcuts placed into the toolbar folder will appear
in the new toolbar. All context menu default activity for shortcuts is available
inside the toolbar. Drag and drop to rearrange to your liking. Then bumping that
screen margin with your cursor/pointer will cause the toolbar to pop out with your
shortcuts-one click-just like Quick Launch. Available on all three margins.
Neurons that fire together, wire together.
(Posted with Opera)
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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 6:46 am
Posted by bigbro_51
(6 messages posted)
You are correct, that is my intent, however I already use a Quicklaunch bar and an
application called Truelaunch bar, which at present have pretty much used up my screen
margins. And trying to control them is an annoyance in itself, because any time the
mouse accidentally reaches the edges of the screen, which is quite frequent, they
pop out uninvited. ---- What I really want is a right click context menu in which
I can create a type of quicklaunch folder. I have another application that kind of
does this, but instead of quicklaunching an application or a folder, it opens a window
very much like the left side of an explorer window, with a tree view, and then I
have to go through the process of selecting what I was after, all over again, from
within it, which is definitely not a quicklaunch and defeats the purpose I had intended.
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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 7:21 am
Posted by DocCrain
(786 messages posted)
Not sure that your idea will work. Some applications control the context menu for
their own purposes, and under those conditions your shortcuts would not be available.
If you use Tweak Ui and have chosen to use the "Focus follows mouse" feature, you
may find that your margin toolbars are less active if you reduce the sensitivity
settings of your hover, and decrease the size of the affected area- helped me with
the similar situation. PC magazine sells a "Contex Menu Plus" utility which has
an editible section, but I cannot say for sure that it would answer.
Neurons that fire together, wire together.
(Posted with Opera)
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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
(12246 messages posted)
Look at these, see if they are any help:
If you want to add or remove entries from the context menu you get when you right
click on an object, let Google help you:
Add or remove entries from right click menu
Another excellent site is Ramesh's
site
The last one has complete instructions for managing the context-menu entries for
files, folders, drives and Namespace objects.
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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 11:16 am
Posted by bigbro_51
(6 messages posted)
Is that Tweak UI setting under 'Mouse' | 'Hover' ?
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On Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 7:21 am, DocCrain wrote:
>Not sure that your idea will work. Some applications control the context menu for
>their own purposes, and under those conditions your shortcuts would not be available.
> If you use Tweak Ui and have chosen to use the "Focus follows mouse" feature, you
>may find that your margin toolbars are less active if you reduce the sensitivity
>settings of your hover, and decrease the size of the affected area- helped me with
>the similar situation. PC magazine sells a "Contex Menu Plus" utility which has
>an editible section, but I cannot say for sure that it would answer.
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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 11:29 am
Posted by bigbro_51
(6 messages posted)
Already did a Google on this and have the same search saved in my Favorites, but
was unable to find anything allowing me to ADD to my menus the feature I mentioned.
I looked at Ramesh's site, and it's the same story.
They all tell me how to remove unwanted entries, but not how to add anything like
what I need.
It's like the 'Select All' feature in the toolbar menus and not any in the right-click
menus. What a time saver that would be.
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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Posted by DocCrain
(786 messages posted)
Yes. Reduce size of affected area under hover, and also drop the sensitivity a bit.
Neurons that fire together, wire together.
(Posted with Opera)
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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Friday, March 9, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Posted by bigbro_51
(6 messages posted)
Thanks DocCrain, that helps a little but does not eliminate the problem altogether.
I still want to create those links in the Right-click context menu though, if anyone
should discover a way.
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On Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 3:05 pm, DocCrain wrote:
>Yes. Reduce size of affected area under hover, and also drop the sensitivity a
bit.
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