{"id":10433,"date":"2010-01-27T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/5-tools-to-clean-up-context-menus-in-windows\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:16:39","slug":"5-tools-to-clean-up-context-menus-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/5-tools-to-clean-up-context-menus-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"5 tools to clean up context menus in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>context menu<\/strong> is usually a shorter and quicker way to access specific system tasks, like copying and pasting, deleting, renaming or checking the file&#8217;s properties. It&#8217;s also used by many programs to insert shortcuts to their main functions, and while this comes handy for most people, it may also end up turning Windows context menu into a real mess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/01\/context.png\" alt=\"5 tools to clean up context menus in Windows\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If your context menu is already so long that it takes you a few seconds to show it up, it&#8217;s time to jump into action. Here&#8217;s a list of apps that will help you clean messy context menus by removing obsolete entries, and also make them more useful with new functionality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdsoftwaresolutions.de\/en\/freeware\/37-jdcontextmenu-\"><strong>JDContextMenu<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; This app adds twelve handy new features to your context menu, and lets you freely arrange them to suit your needs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hace.us-inc.com\/mmm.shtml\"><strong>Mmm Free<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Easily get rid of all the options in the context menu you rarely or never use. It&#8217;ll make context menus faster to load and easier to use.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contextmagic.com\/menu-extension\/\"><strong>Context Magic<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Adds new commands to the context menu in Windows that make file management more comfortable. Perfect for heavy mouse users!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartdart.com\/\"><strong>Context Menu Editor<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Remove all context menu entries you don&#8217;t need in just two clicks. Bear in mind you&#8217;re just deleting the menu entry, not the program it links to.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lopesoft.com\/en\/index.html\"><strong>FileMenu Tools<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Create a sub-list to the context menu with a bunch of handy utilities. You can remove the ones you don&#8217;t use, rearrange them and create submenus and separators to adapt the context menu to your neeeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The context menu is usually a shorter and quicker way to access specific system tasks, like copying and pasting, deleting, renaming or checking the file&#8217;s properties. It&#8217;s also used by many programs to insert shortcuts to their main functions, and while this comes handy for most people, it may also end up turning Windows context &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/5-tools-to-clean-up-context-menus-in-windows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;5 tools to clean up context menus in Windows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-10433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335149,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions\/335149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=10433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}