Locate Windows Shell context menu items in an extra menu

[anonymous]

When AutoIt is installed, it creates about seven new menu-items for the explorer context menu, when right-clicking a .au3 file. Three "Compile" versions, an "Edit" and three "Run" versions. Can these please be grouped in a menu, so the explorer menu looks cleaner?

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It's really easy, just by creating the right registry keys and values. Currently individually written to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AutoIt3Script\Shell]. Obviously, I don't need to tell you how this works, but for those who want to know, or do it themselfs: I would suggest the following keys and values here:

KEY "AutoItMenu"
- REG_SZ "MUIVerb" = "AutoIt"
- REG_SZ "Icon" = "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe"
- REG_SZ "SubCommands" = "AutoIt_Compile;AutoIt_Edit;AutoIt_Run"

And then create inside [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell] the following …

KEY "AutoIt_Compile"
@ (default) = "Compile script"
- KEY "command" = "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Aut2Exe\Aut2Exe.exe" /in "%l"

KEY "AutoIt_Edit"
@ = "Edit script"
- KEY "command" = "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\SciTE.exe" "%1"

KEY "AutoIt_Run"
@ = "Run script"
- KEY "command" = "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe" "%1" %*

I'll leave the solution for the ability to choose between x86 and x64 versions to you.

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[Jpm]

I try your proposal but it not working with Win10
Unless you give me better advice I will close this ticket
Cheers

[anonymous]

This is the script that I used. It hides the default menu-items, creates a new sub-menu and new keys that will be visible in the sub-menu. Found it somewhere on the AutoIt forum. I did a quick search, but didn't find the post. Sorry for that.

;~ Note: Nothing will be deleted, so it is perfectly safe
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Global $HKCR_AutoItMenu = "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AutoIt3Script\Shell\"
Global $HKLM_Shell = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\"

; disable the loose context menu items...
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"Compile", "LegacyDisable", "REG_SZ", "")
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"CompileX64", "LegacyDisable", "REG_SZ", "")
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"CompileX86", "LegacyDisable", "REG_SZ", "")
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"Edit", "LegacyDisable", "REG_SZ", "")
;~ RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"Open", "LegacyDisable", "REG_SZ", "") ; don't want to disable this one, because that will break the ShellOpen of a .au3 file ; same as either Edit or Run action, depending on your personal settings
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"Run", "LegacyDisable", "REG_SZ", "")
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"RunX64", "LegacyDisable", "REG_SZ", "")
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"RunX86", "LegacyDisable", "REG_SZ", "")

; create a new menu...
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"AutoIt_Menu")
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"AutoIt_Menu", "ICON", "REG_SZ", "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe") ; default file location, check if you installed it somewhere else
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"AutoIt_Menu", "MUIVerb", "REG_SZ", "Auto-It") ; text to display
RegWrite($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"AutoIt_Menu", "SubCommands", "REG_SZ", "AutoIt.Compile;AutoIt.Edit;AutoIt.Run") ; create new commands that will be registered later

; register the new commands, copy default values...

RegWrite($HKLM_Shell&"AutoIt.Compile", "", "REG_SZ", "Compile script") ; menu-item text
; choose the one you want to use:
$value = RegRead($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"Compile\command", "")
;~ $value = RegRead($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"CompileX64", "command")
;~ $value = RegRead($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"CompileX86", "command")
RegWrite($HKLM_Shell&"AutoIt.Compile\command", "", "REG_SZ", $value)

RegWrite($HKLM_Shell&"AutoIt.Edit", "", "REG_SZ", "Edit script") ; menu-item text
$value = RegRead($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"Edit\command", "")
RegWrite($HKLM_Shell&"AutoIt.Edit\command", "", "REG_SZ", $value)

; this one won't be used if you did not disable the default context menu item
;~ $value = RegRead($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"Open", "command")
;~ RegWrite($HKLM_Shell&"AutoIt.Open\command", "", "REG_SZ", $value)

RegWrite($HKLM_Shell&"AutoIt.Run", "", "REG_SZ", "Run script") ; menu-item text
; choose the one you want to use:
$value = RegRead($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"Run\command", "")
;~ $value = RegRead($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"RunX64", "command")
;~ $value = RegRead($HKCR_AutoItMenu&"RunX86", "command")
RegWrite($HKLM_Shell&"AutoIt.Run\command", "", "REG_SZ", $value)

[anonymous]

script file with same content as mentioned in my comment