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How to add new items to the windows vista desktop context menu


The following hack will enable you to add some custom items to the desktop context menu.

Open regedit.exe and browse the following registry key.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell

We will consider adding controlpanel shortcut the desktop context menu.

Create a new Key called ‘Control Panel’ under the shell key.

under that create a new key called ‘Command’

Select the command key on the left side and then set the Default value on the right side panel to the following value.

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL

After this you can immediately see the new item in the desktop context menu.

To remove simple delete the control panel key.

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