Windows key for context menu

Menus and context menus are for organizing commands and saving space by hiding those commands until the user needs them. To display arbitrary content, such as a notification or confirmation request, use a dialog or a flyout. If a particular command will be used frequently and you have the space available, consider placing it directly in its own element so that users don't have to go through a menu to get to it. If you want to add commands such as Cut, Copy, and Paste to a text or image element, use a context menu instead of a menu.

In this scenario, the primary role of the text element is to present and edit text; additional commands such as Cut, Copy, and Paste are secondary and belong in a context menu. In cases where your context menu will include common commands such as Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete, Share, or text selection commands , use command bar flyout and group these common commands together as primary commands so that they will be shown as a single, horizontal row in the context menu.

In cases where your context menu will not include common commands, either command bar flyout or menu flyout can be used to show a context menu.

We recommend using CommandBarFlyout because it provides more functionality than MenuFlyout and, if desired, can achieve the same behavior and look of MenuFlyout by using only secondary commands.

When the user invokes a command element such as a button whose primary role is to present additional commands, use menu flyout to host a single top-level menu to be shown inline as a flyout attached to the on-canvas UI element.

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Had trouble preserving setting states, but so did Easy Context Menu at times. Accomplishing Some of That From the Windows Registry You can also add and remove items from context menus from the Windows Registry, though it isn't as easy or reliable as using one of the recommended tools. Click Import instead to restore the saved file. You can add custom items to your desktop context menu from the registry as well, such as a shortcut launcher for a program.

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