Easy Context Menu (ECM) lets you add a variety of useful commands and tweaks to the Desktop, My Computer, Drives, File and Folder right-click context menus. This enables you to access the most used Windows components quickly and easily. Simply check the box next to the items you wish to add. Once added, just right click and the select the component shortcut to launch it. Easy Context Menu is both portable and freeware.
Last update – Tuesday, 29 June 2021 (Silent Update)
[Fixed] – Sticky notes doesn’t work on Windows 11
Last General update (08.08.2015)
[Fixed] – Windows 10 Registry writing Problem
[Fixed] – Restricted user permission issues
[Fixed] – If you change a group name in the List editor, target combo menu doesn’t update itself
[Fixed] – Block keyboard needs admin permission
[Fixed] – Tooltip doesn’t work properly
[Fixed] – Attrib screen is too narrow
[Fixed] – Command prompt bug and some minor translation errors
[Added] – Load saved settings icon
How to use
Extract the ZIP to the folder of your choice, and then run the program. Select your desired context menu entries by ticking the adjacent checkbox, then click the Apply Changes button.
Easy Context Menu has six main categories, and three sub-categories:
1. Desktop Context Menu
2. My Computer Context Menu
2a: Tools
2b: System Tools
2c: Turn Off options
3. Drives Context Menu
4. Folder Context Menu
5. File Context Menu
6. EXE file Context Menu
Found within are all of Sordum’s small tools: Delete Temp Files, Restart Windows Explorer, Show or Hide Hidden Files/Folders, Show or Hide File Extensions, Rebuild Shell Icon Cache, Select All Files, Copy IP address, Reduce Memory, Fix Print Spooler, Take Ownership (which has no UAC problem and it also works in Windows XP).
You can elect to show or hide the icon for any item by right clicking on it and selecting “Enable Icon”. Click “Enable Icon” again to toggle it back off.
The same menu allows you to arrange icon positions (Top, Middle or Bottom) or jump directly to the registry key for that item. The “Enable Shift-Click” option sets the item as hidden on the menu until you press the Shift key, which then makes it visible.
Add any program to your context menu
With Easy Context Menu, it is very easy to add any program to your right click menu. To do so:
1. Open the List Editor
2. Drag and drop your desired program into the editor
3. Click the “Save Changes” button and close then List Editor
4. Now you will see the newly added program in ECM’s main window. Just select it and click the Apply Changes button.
How to Clean the Right Click Menu
The context menu is often abused by software vendors who add useless entries without asking permission. You can use ECM’s new context menu cleaner feature to remove all unwanted entries.
Just select an unwanted entry and click the Delete button to remove it from your context menu. It’s that simple.
Block a Program in Windows Firewall
To block a program in Windows Firewall using ECM:
1. Add the ‘Block In Windows Firewall’ entry to your context menu
2. Right click on any application (exe) and select Block In Windows Firewall. To remove an application from being blocked, right click and then choose “Remove From Windows Firewall”.
Windows 10 BUG
Please be aware of a well known (except, apparently, by Microsoft) bug in Windows 10 — if you change the “Open File Explorer to” This PC, and then add context menu items, you cannot use Windows Explorer properly because explorer.exe will automatically run the most recently added right click item. We have reported this bug here (with no response, as yet).
There is a temporary workaround you can use – if you add anything under the My Computer context menu, please check the box by “My Computer (for Win 10 bug)” entry as well. Then you’ll be able to use Windows Explorer normally.
NOTE: We are still waiting for a fix from Microsoft
Please don’t use take ownership feature on windows system files and folders (For example Fonts folder etc.) . It may cause windows to not work properly
Supported operating systems: Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , Windows Vista , Windows xp – (both x86 and x64)
Supported languages: English , Turkish , German , Italian , Vietnamese , Russian , Polish , Korean , Spanish , Hungarian , Chinese (Simplified) , Chinese (Traditional) , French , Japanese , Portuguese-Br , Greek , Danish , Dutch , Persian , Ukrainian , Hebrew , Romanian , Uighur , Czech , Arabic , Swedish , Slovenian , Portuguese-PT , Indonesian , Serbian , Bulgarian, Latvian , Norwegian, Slovak
File: EcMenu_x64.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: d4cae9981946b6e2fb1cf52eedd10261
SHA1: 721e03a68539a11c72a0be3849dbb34a4989e3fa
File: EcMenu.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: fdea0366e834590a45a95bd697b4b1a3
SHA1: 0e1754ef45d6cb2c95c56522a6a9da915f875796
Show My IP Address
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Thank you for this useful software. Is it possible to put Notepad++ into “New” in with shortcut, new folder ect when you right click on Desktop or explorer?
Thank you Daniel , We wish you success at school
Love your programs, ALL OF THEM especially this one. I hope to work for or with you one day but because I am in school I obviously can’t. Thanks for your programs again.
And I thought I was the only one who gets that satisfactory feeling. Thank sagain
What the code of
Block Context Menu ?
using cmd command??
And Take Ownership using cmd command?
Please use Take Ownership feature
I have blocked access of folder using context menu but now I am unable to unblock it. how can I unblock it?
Xp was My favorite operating system , In xp times users were king/queen but now they are slaves
Will try and see if it can move the Rename from been next to Delete in context menu.
How many times you went to Rename instead Deleted a file. Not good when don’t use trash can with delete. And so need to recover the file if it can be recovered.
Users having to fix another Microsoft problem. Shame the CD-DVD-BD-AD drive lock up the OS while it loads is still an issue after all these years. Nothing can be done until the disc is loaded. Test insert disc in a drive and open windows explorer at the same time, your locked out until the disc is accessed, so on.
I can now also see why there have been many Windows OS versions since XP-SP3. Maybe Microsoft should have instead made XP-SP4 keeping the XP theme we all are used to including folder structure and navigation to them as XP is. Then have available other available themes as other OS now have.
Simple put would now not be X ammount of users now using a MAC or other type Linux variant OS. Or having older XP user having to use newer OS and XP in a virtual mode.
I know many people and so many use XP now in newer OS. Yes Microsoft didn’t lose out people using the new OS. But the question why does everyone still use XP even on their new OS !
Why did Microsoft not make a XP theme that completely made available all that XP is. Including folder and it structure completely. That is exactly as XP is where the user has or feels like they are more in control.
Download button is on the “related post” title (under the Advertisement)
Can’ find the *.exe downloads on your page.
Hello, I am a fan of your program, thank you very much for your work. Prompt as in Easy Context Menu to add a command – “Copy the file name \ folder”, “Delete the contents of the folder”. And when you press the mouse button on the installation file opens the registry branch where it is located? Thank you in advance!
I would like to very much try you “Easy Context Menu” program and I really like that you have provided the MD5 and SHA1 hash values, however they are for the .exe only. Would you please be willing to add the hashes for the .zip file?
Thanks
Two Problems
1. I can’t find documentation on ListEditor for parameters, I found %L, %V, %1 — Just guessing, %L is the Path of %1? What to use to get the file name only (something like %F would be practical, I’m using the everything.exe tool to get duplicates for file name)
2. In most languages, the Win 10 bug is missing (eg. German: “Arbeitsplatz – Kontextmenü (Win 10 bug)
Just wanted to thank you folks. Have been using ECM since i stumbled on it a few years back, and it has become ingrained enough to make it onto my PE stick. That would probably mean more if you knew me, suffice it to say not having it feels like going out and forgetting my watch; super annoying but not life threatening. Also TYVM for not requiring registration to comment. serious props on that. Thanks again
Found problem. I changed the name of the 64 bit GUI app launcher. Changed it back and problem fixed.
I have a problem. None of my options in the GUI display a name. Just has….. Only the main categories have names.
Is it possible to pin any file/folder to start menu?