How to add new item to existing Microsoft menu?

For example, when you are in Windows Explorer and right click a file, you get a context menu of Delete, Rename, Properties, etc. I have a simple menu item I want to add. Does anyone know how to add it to the existing menu? Thanks.

By the way, I can do this in .Net 2003 or VB 6.0. Either solution is welcome.

Mike

You could do this, by using the registry.

Here's a nice thread (solution is in post #7)

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showth...t=context+menu

Hope it helps a bit!

Thanks. That does help. It's not totally what I want, but it gives me somewhere to start.

When I do the code, incidentally, I only get me program showing when I right-click a Folder. It is not present what I right-click a file.

Also, all I really want is to display an extra menu item, when you hover over the menu item it expands to show you other menu items, similar to a list of recently used files. The top menu is something like "File Properties." It's sub menu items will display information about the file (like size, date created, type, author, etc). So they are basically read only.

Now I need to find a way to programatically add new menu items since via the registry. Yikes.

See this thread - http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=323437

:)

...and if you need a tutorial: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbshe...pter/ch04.html