Adding an item to IE context menu

Author: beradrian (talk, contrib)

Description

These macros below add or remove items from the Internet Explorer context menu. You have to restart Internet Explorer in order to work. Tested only on Windows XP SP2.

How To Use

${IEMenuItem_Add} `Name` `Exec` `Contexts` `Flags`

Name

The title of the item as it appears on the context menu.

Exec

File, folder or web page to open when clicking the button. Accepts parameters.

Contexts

A logical OR of all the contexts where this item will appear.

Flags

If is 0x01 then executing this item will open a new window. Otherwise this is a silent command.

${IEMenuItem_Remove} `Name`

Name

The title of the item as it appears on the context menu, the same used with ${IEMenuItem_Add}.

The Macros

!define IE_CONTEXT_MENU_DEFAULT 0x1
!define IE_CONTEXT_MENU_IMAGE 0x2
!define IE_CONTEXT_MENU_CONTROL 0x4
!define IE_CONTEXT_MENU_TABLE 0x8
!define IE_CONTEXT_MENU_TEXTSELECT 0x10
!define IE_CONTEXT_MENU_ANCHOR 0x20
!define IE_CONTEXT_MENU_UNKNOWN 0x40
 
!define IEMenuItem_KeyName `SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt`
 
!define IEMenuItem_Add `!insertmacro IEMenuItem_Add`
!macro IEMenuItem_Add `Name` `Exec` `Contexts` `Flags`
    WriteRegStr HKCU `${IEMenuItem_KeyName}\${Name}` `` `${Exec}`
    WriteRegDWORD HKCU `${IEMenuItem_KeyName}\${Name}` `Contexts` ${Contexts}
    WriteRegDWORD HKCU `${IEMenuItem_KeyName}\${Name}` `Flags` ${Flags}
!macroend
 
!define IEMenuItem_Remove `!insertmacro IEMenuItem_Remove`
!macro IEMenuItem_Remove `Name`
    DeleteRegKey HKLM `${IEMenuItem_KeyName}\${Name}`
!macroend

Written by beradrian