Customize Right Click Menu of Windows XP

The Right Click Menu of Windows XP can be easily edited and new menu options can be added easily with the software presented here. New Menu options can be added to provide easy access to configurable menu options. You can add new menu options or even delete the added menu options to Windows XP right menu of Desktop.

In case you would like to disable the right click menu altogether, you would need knowledge of how to use the registry editor or some appropriate software which can disable right click menu of desktop. In order to disable you would need to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and add a new DWORD value with name NoViewContextMenu and set its value to 1 to disable the right click menu of xp. You can enable the right click menu by changing the value of the value NoViewContextMenu to 0. In case your right click menu of XP is slow and takes lots of time, it may be caused by some faulty software. There are many software tools out there which can tweak your right click menu without the need of uninstalling the culprit software.

In case you would like to add new menu options you would need a software to do the job as the job requires to create a dll and add some complex entries to the registry. The Software presented here works seamlessly on Windows XP and can tweak Desktop Right Click Menu allowing you to add new options. The figure on the left displays two programs added to the right click menu of XP’s desktop right click menu. The new menu options can be really useful whether you are using single or multiple monitor windows computer as with multiple monitors connected to your windows computer, you get more screen area and there is lots of space where you can move mouse cursor around. New menu options to the right click menu of XP would allow you to launch an application or open an existing document without requiring you to move mouse cursor to the primary monitor.

Desktop Right Click Menu with new options in Windows Vista

The Right Click Menu of Windows has improved with Windows Versions. The Right Click Menu of Desktop in Windows XP was fairly simple, whereas in Windows Vista a new Menu option was added named Personalize and this Desktop Menu trend has continued on Windows 7 as well. 

Let’s say you are browsing Internet using Internet Explorer on Secondary Monitor and you close the browser when it was positioned on secondary monitor. Internet Explorer remembers it’s last position and hence if you launch it again, it will be launched on the last monitor, which in this example is the secondary or second monitor connected to a dual monitor windows computer. Imagine how useful would it be if you could right click on desktop while your mouse cursor is on the second monitor and launch Internet Explorer or any other software without moving your mouse cursor back to the primary monitor. 

Using Dual or Multi Monitors with a Windows Computer is all about extending Desktop area and in fact with extended Desktop Area, the usability of Desktop Right Click Menu increases as well. Have a look at the screenshot the left which displays many extra menu options added to the right click menu of Windows Vistas’  Desktop. There are two options added to the top (which in this example provide quick and easy way to launch software application such as Internet Explorer, Windows Notepad, or any other application or document) and another two menu options can be seen after the Refresh button (which provide really quick way to change screen resolution). All the extra Menu Options added to the right click menu of desktop are customizable. The top two Menu options can be added to any Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 Desktop or Laptop Computer, whereas the extra options added after the refresh button can be added on Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Dual Monitor Software tweaks Windows features and allows to extract most out of the dual monitors connected to a Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 Operating Systems.

Dual Monitor Graphics cards can be identified with two ports connected to the same graphics card. There are many types of ports (or connectors on the graphics card to which you can connect your monitor to) such as VGA Port, DVI Port, DisplayPort, S Video Port and many other types of ports. VGA Port is blue in color and has 3 rows of holes in it with 15 holes in it whereas DVI Port is white in color. A simple Dual Monitor Graphics card can have 3 ports i.e. One VGA Port, One DVI Port and one S Vide o Port or it can have 2 DVI Ports and one S Video ports or may be some other combination of ports.

Browse to the Hardware Category from the top of the page to know exactly what you are looking regarding hardware for setting up and using dual monitors. From Dual Monitor Software perspective, Windows does have good support for dual monitors for latest operating system users.