I've searched through old context menu questions, to no avail. I want to add an item to the generic context menu when *text* is highlighted. Ideally, this would not be program-specific. (I already have done this in IE, for example, but often times I want to do this from text in notepad, or in another "feature non-rich" application like a database. The item I want to add to the context menu passes the highlighted text as an argument to an already-written batch file. I looked around in the registry, but couldn't figure out where to add anything that would work. Ideas?

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This is a nice program, but it doesn't do what I'm looking for. This program can only edit context menus when a *file* is right-clicked. I'm looking to edit a more "fundamental" context menu; namely the one that appears when any text is highlighted. This can be text that appears in a command line, in a text box, or basically anywhere else.

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I don't think anyone can help you with that. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

Best workaround would be to copy the text to the clipboard, then launch the action with a hotkey.... Windows lets you create hotkeys for desktop shortcuts. You could create a shortcut to some script that passes along the clipboard text to your batch file.... You could use a scripting language such as AutoIt. ; Very simple AutoIt v3 script ; Simulate Ctrl+C which usually copies text to clipboard Send('^c') ; Launch batch file with paramter Run('myBatchFile.bat' & ' ' & ClipGet())