FileMenu Tools 5.7

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Oct 27, 2009

Just a dll that changes your context. Uses no resources.

Rated 30/50 by Banquo at Feb 5, 2010

Adds a lot of handy tools to your context menu (under a sub menu called FileMenu Tools so as not to cause cluter). One thing it needs is a bit of grammar checking, it seems English is not the author's first language and some of the options are poorly worded such as "Use always this selection and not prompt more times". A bigger problem is that some of the features do not work. Shred files for example does absolutely nothing. It's a nice idea for a program but it needs a lot of work still.

Rated 50/50 by Plumber at Feb 15, 2010

This is an excellent tool. I found that once I had taken the time to configure it extensively, it was a great help. I was able to clean up my context menu significantly.

Rated 10/50 by Johen at Dec 17, 2010

FileMenu 5.8.1 Not what it says on the Tin! Finally, a program to help me sort out my context menu issues in Windows Vista. I got even more enthusiastic when reading some of the raving reviews and I could see my fruitless searching had finally come to an end. FileMenu Tools lead me to believe it would grant me control over the context menu. Wrong! The major issue I had was the order of some of the items on the context menu. They weren't in the order I wanted them. FileMenu did not resolve that problem at all. All it did was give me ANOTHER item in the menu and another item over which I had no control where it went. I didn't want an extra item, I wanted to change the order of the existing menu and I still couldn't do that. Worse, FileMenu Tools actually seem to throw my already messy Context Menu even further into disarray. Which was only 'restored' to its previous less jumbled state after I de-installed it. I had a look at the the features, anyway. The FileMenu Tools option does give you (some) control over the items within it. And it is fair to say there were a few options I thought that could be handy, however I soon found out not all of the options I had ticked were available in my context menu (note 1), this struck me as odd, but I could live with that, they weren't the ones I cared about. However, this is where my second disappointment occurred. An option 'Copy Name' is for me useful, however no 'Paste Name'. So I could copy the name for a selected file, but in order to paste it I had to do it 'old style' (note 2). FileMenu Tools does give you the option to add programmable items to the menu, however not for this type of action (note 3). Meaning, doing it old style is actually quicker for me, so no benefit there either. Which brings me to my last and final point, a vital point for any application and usually forgotten or poorly done is the 'Help'. Unfortunately FileMenu Tools is not an exception. The online help is non existent, consisting out of a fe