Question

I can add a new item for the folders right click menu using registry:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\folder\shell\Your item name

But i don’t know how to set a icon for created item like this :

May somebody help me?

Answer 1

To create a custom context menu with an icon when clicking on a folder follow these steps:

1. Under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\folder\shell\ create a new key: “MyContextMenu”
2. Under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\folder\shell\MyContextMenu edit the (Default) key to specify the text to show in the context menu: MyMenu
3. To execute a command when the menu is chosen add a new key name “Command” and set the commmand to execute in it’s (Default) value. For instance: cmd.exe
4. Now to set the icon you add a new string value name Icon and set it’s value to the *.ico you want to show or you can reference an ico that is embedded in a dll using [name of the dll],[icon number] A lot of the default windows icons are in imageres.dll. So for this example set the value to: c:\windows\system32\imageres.dll,10

There is a nice tool called iconviewer that you can use to examine icons in dlls. After you install it you can right click a dll, open it’s properties and an extra tab with it’s icons will be added to the propery pages