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.

Screen Resolution Shortcut to change screen resolution to 1600 X 900

This Screen Resolution Shortcut has been created to change the Screen Resolution to 1600 X 900 and it also changes the bits per pixel to 32 and Monitor Frequency to 60Hz. You can create many such screen resolution changing shortcut(s) which will allow you to change the screen resolution by launching the shortcut. The Shortcut can be placed anywhere, let’s say on Desktop or Quick Launch bar and it can be assigned Shortcut Keys so that you can launch the screen resolution changing shortcut by pressing shortcut keys on keyboard.

This Screen Resolution Shortcut can be created for any Windows Operating System. Be the Windows Operating System may be Windows 7, Vista or even Windows XP. Just launch the shortcut to set the screen resolution according to your requirement. Now you would not need to go to control panel and struggle with Screen Resolution or Display Resolution conrtol panel again and again. The shortcut can be created to either change temporarily the screen resolution (which would mean that if you do log off, the screen resolution would be reverted to the old screen resolution) and the resolution changes can be done permanently (which would mean that unless you change the screen resolution again, the screen resolution would be changed to the new screen resolution).

You can even use the shortcut to change only DPI setting of a Computer screen by selecting the default or original screen resolution and by selecting a different DPI. 8, 16 and 32 DPI or Bits per pixel are supported. Sounds interesting ? And yes when you create the Screen Resolution shortcut, you will get an option to select any of the Dual Monitors connected to your computer.

Wanna give it a try, just navigate to Resolution Controller document and download the Dual Monitor Software which does offers many other useful functionalities to control your Computer Screen.

Dual Monitor Support in Windows 7

Windows provides Dual Monitor support starting with Windows Control Panel. The Windows Control panel allows to configure and move Monitors around in a virtual space. You can even enable or disable any of the connected Monitor(s) from the Control Panel. The options available are to control the Monitor Resolution, select whether to clone or to extend the display, select whether to display the counputer output in Landscape or Portrait format and position monitor location in the big virtual desktop space. Other Windows Operating Systems such as Windows Vista, and XP also supported connecting Dual Monitors with a Windows Computer.

In case you would like to get Dual Monitor Support from Software perspective such as asking about some specific functionality (let’s say Can I Enable or Disable Monitors with a Desktop Shortcut) which is not available with Windows and you would like to use a Dual Monitor Software Utility for the purpose, you can visit Dual Monitor Forum which has been designed for a Dual Monitor Software and has many easy to view & follow questions and answers related to having custom functionalities such as Dual Monitor Shortcut, Hot Key Combinations to automate repetitive tasks and much more.