Cascading Needed on right context (?)

Mossberg9500

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Hi, Brink




I've been following your tutorials for quite some time now and I enjoy them quite immensely they're very informative and help me out when I am desperately in need of a fix for my PC. I just went from Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit to an upgrade of Windows 8 64 bit Pro. I have been a member of the sevens forums and now the eights forums for close to 4 or 5 months . I have tried to get in touch with you on numerous occasions but it told me I was not eligible or something like that, I did not understand for it was the first time that I had posted in the forum and I'm pretty new at posting I always stood on the sidelines to learn . Well to get to my question how do you create a cascading menu on the right context on desktop after you have created the registry key? Is there a tutorial that would show me how to create a cascading right context menu?
Thank you sincerely
Mossberg9500
 

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Hi,

I will see if I can explain using a cascading menu for shutdown restart etc.
This information I got from tutorials here and just playing around to get it the way I wanted it.

I will post the full code at the very bottom of this post,
Just copy and paste in notepad and save as Power.reg or something.reg and double click it.
Then you can see how it looks in the right click menu.

note, not everything can be done with Right Click Context menus, some things just don't work, others require taking ownership of registry keys etc.
Be careful with what you are doing and trying to create, but don't be afraid to experiment.

First off, here is the original Power Cascading Menu from tutorials and where I started, then edited in the code below to fix it the way I like it.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...-menu-windows-8-a.html?filter[1]=Context Menu


Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\zMenu1]
"MUIVerb"="Power"
"SubCommands"="shutdown;restart;lock;|;logoff;|;abort;switchuser;|;hybridshutdown;hibernate;sleep"
"Icon"="powrprof.dll,-513"
"Position"="Bottom"

The above code is key to the whole thing. This defines how your cascading menu will look.
I can't remember exactly why I named this part zMenu1, could be I just wanted it in the Registry in that location. Or there might have been a reason from a code aspect. Not sure, but I apologize, I don't want to go back and find out right now.

"Icon"="powrprof.dll,-513"
This is the icon used for the menu item.,.. all of the icons I chose are default in Windows files
this is in that dll located in C:\Windows\System32
this is icon number 513 in powrprof.dll

Along with others
imageres.dll
shell32.dll

compstui.dll
DDORes.dll
ieframe.dll
mmcndmgr.dll
mmres.dll
moricons.dll
msctf.dll
netshell.dll
pnidui.dll
wmploc.DLL

Just to name a few... hehe :p

The best way to view these is use IconViewer
Great app. Not all files contain icons,, to access this after install, right click a file and choose properties
If there are icons, a new tab will appear, otherwise it won't.

The | (pipe) adds separators in the menu

This list of SubCommands above are the order they will appear in the menu.

"Position"="Bottom"
This is where is will be located in the context menu,
Top
Middle
Bottom

Position is a little tricky, You will need to research this and play around with it a bit.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,
This code below is not really needed, I added it for a degree of completion,
This adds the right click power menu to the Computer Icon as well (on the desktop or in the start menu, if you have one, this does not apply to metro anywhere).

Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Menu1]
"MUIVerb"="Power"
"SubCommands"="shutdown;restart;lock;|;logoff;|;abort;switchuser;|;hybridshutdown;hibernate;sleep"
"Icon"="powrprof.dll,-513"
"Position"="Bottom"

****************************************

This is the full code for the registry file,

Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Menu1]
"MUIVerb"="Power"
"SubCommands"="shutdown;restart;lock;|;logoff;|;abort;switchuser;|;hybridshutdown;hibernate;sleep"
"Icon"="powrprof.dll,-513"
"Position"="Bottom"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\zMenu1]
"MUIVerb"="Power"
"SubCommands"="shutdown;restart;lock;|;logoff;|;abort;switchuser;|;hybridshutdown;hibernate;sleep"
"Icon"="powrprof.dll,-513"
"Position"="Bottom"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\shutdown]
@="Shutdown"
"icon"="shell32.dll,-28"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\shutdown\command]
@="shutdown.exe -s -t 00 -f"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\restart]
@="Restart"
"icon"="SyncCenter.dll,-1220"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\restart\command]
@="shutdown.exe -r -t 00 -f"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\lock]
@="Lock Computer"
"icon"="shell32.dll,-48"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\lock\command]
@="rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\logoff]
@="Log Off"
"icon"="shell32.dll,-45"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\logoff\command]
@="shutdown.exe -L"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\abort]
@="Abort"
"icon"="imageres.dll,-98"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\abort\command]
@="shutdown.exe -A"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\switchuser]
@="Switch User"
"icon"="imageres.dll,-88"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\switchuser\command]
@="tsdiscon.exe"


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\sleep]
@="Sleep"
"Icon"="powercpl.dll,-514"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\sleep\command]
@="rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\hibernate]
@="Hibernate"
"icon"="imageres.dll,-1013"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\hibernate\command]
@="Shutdown -h"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\hybridshutdown]
@="Shut Down (Hybrid)"
"icon"="imageres.dll,-1022"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\hybridshutdown\command]
@="Shutdown -s -f -t 00 -hybrid"

****************************
This will uninstall it....

Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Menu1]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\zMenu1]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\shutdown]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\restart]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\lock]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\logoff]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\abort]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\switchuser]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\sleep]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\hibernate]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\hybridshutdown]

I hope this helps a little with explaining how to create a cascading right click context menu.

Also see this one,, but this one requires taking ownership of a registry key
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/9477-personalize-add-remove-expanding-desktop-context-menu.html

And this... Context Menus
 
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