add small icon to explorer rightclick contextmenu

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add small icon to explorer rightclick contextmenu

Postby klumy » 01 Jun 2009 19:11

is it possible to add a small VLC icon to the explorer rightclickmenu of windows?
Windows 7

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Re: add small icon to explorer rightclick contextmenu

Postby VLC_help » 02 Jun 2009 15:45

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums ... b65a1e0720
according to that it would require context menu handler. And creating one isn't trivial and it might cause issues that cause Explorer crash http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

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Re: add small icon to explorer rightclick contextmenu

Postby vlc_fan-01 » 08 Jun 2009 07:55

It's a nifty lil idea, as VLC_help stated it might crash Explorer.exe on occassions. On another note all my apps on Windows that have icons on the context menu are mostly active startup or session processes on my XP system. Apps like WinRar, Shelltoys, Unlocker...

That mean it may coincide with my other recent suggestions of VLC 'running on startup' And the 'after-install disabling of context menu's'. Maybe a separate VLC exe could be added to the program folder which would adminster all this
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=57523&p=201886#p201580

mock-up image; so such would mean two separate icons
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