How To edit right click windows context menu

[riteshtechie]

hELLO EVERYONE,

I am looking for a code that can help me Disable Refresh Entry from Right Click Context Menu.

One more thing is with refresh Menu entry I want to make a search in Context menu and if there is an entry name = abc than I want to disable it too. So any idea how to proceed.

So far I have gathered this information that this command can help me, but as am a newbee in .NET i don't think I can code it myself therefore need some assistance can anyone help

BOOL EnableMenuItem(      
    HMENU hMenu,
    UINT uIDEnableItem,
    UINT uEnable
);

Note: I am not talking about Context menu inside a program, I am referring to windows context menu

[.paul.]

which Right Click Context Menu?

you can use your own context menu for controls

[HanneSThEGreaT]

To edit the System's context menus, you'd have to edit the registry, well mostly.

here is a thread - yes, I know it is in the VB 6 forum, but it will still help you :

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=593181

[riteshtechie]

i want to make refresh menu entry gray in explorer context menu

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Erm.... Did you actually go to the link I have posted ¿

[Sabrina Gage]

Why not use System.Windows.Controls.ContextMenu.
You can find how to use it on MSDN.
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[riteshtechie]

Erm.... Did you actually go to the link I have posted ¿

Yes and found nothing useful.
Look this is what I want.

I want to Gray down New Entry and refresh menu entry just like the PAste see below pic.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

It may simply not be possible to do that. You need to understand how the windows context menu is built. When you right click, windows queries the registry for items. But it's not necessarily as simple as having a string with the name of your program and a word for the title. The Paste item for example is actually the result of a call to a registered dll that returns a windows context menu item. In the dll, the logic checks the clipboard for pastable data and if it doesn't find any, returns a disabled menu item. Otherwise it returns an enabled one.

It's important that you understand this because of what it means to you. You cannot artificially disable another menu item. The menu items you see are not controls on a form. By the time that you see them, they are immutable. Static. The only way for you to influence the behaviour of other menu items is to gain access to the dlls that create them, and manipulate the code that generates them.

This is likely to be extremely difficult though, as these dlls are usually written in C++.

[riteshtechie]

May be its not that difficult

EnableMenuItem Function - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...36(VS.85).aspx

Regex.Replace Method - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...x.replace.aspx

I can search for string yusing regex replave and disable menu item by EnableMenuItem Function

But am not a good programmer, i knew the concept now! can any help me with this noe

[riteshtechie]

I got from somewhere that Class ID of Windows Explorer Context menu is #32770 in Windows 7

mau be this would be of some help

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Those APIs were developed specifically for the dlls that I mentioned in my earlier post. It would be either completely or nearly impossible to retrieve the handle of the context menu any other way than from a dll specifically invoked by it, and as a result it is very much immutable to outside influence.

I wrote a context menu a while back for an application that depending on the file type either returned different menu items or returned nothing. This made it very simple to implement file specific context menus. In the function I do have access to the handle of the context menu, obviously, but i'm going to risk a guess that my earlier advice, as far as any external application is concerned, still applies.