New App: Right-Click Tools

LesFerch · Mar 26, 2024

Available to download now:

RightClickTools

Add a Set of Powerful Tools to the Windows Explorer Context Menu

lesferch.github.io

I understand first reactions may be "I already have all/most of those tools", but I'd encourage you to review the details at the above page to see if there are some improvements/additions over your existing tools. Some highlights:

Works on Windows 7 through 11, 32 bit, 64 bit, Standard user, Administrator user.
Works (and displays) in all languages.
Works with long paths.
No UAC prompts for administrator users.
TrustedInstaller access.
Adds to the Windows 11 context menu if you have Custom Context Menu installed.

Classic context menu:

Windows 11 context menu:

Pirilampo2 · Mar 26, 2024

Thanks LesFerch, I installed it and it works fine and in my language.

antspants · Mar 26, 2024

Thanks!

LesFerch · Oct 12, 2024

Right-Click Tools 1.1.3 is now available.

Changes from previous version:

Added Privileged file manager here feature
Added options to reset icon and thumbnail caches
Replaced Yes/No prompts with OK (since X already serves as a No)
Added option to choose an alternate checkbox style
Improved dark mode button highlighting
Now recognizes difference between desktop and a desktop window on Explorer restart
Added an installer (RightClickTools-Setup.exe)

Privileged file manager here means that you can open an Explorer window as Administrator or Trusted Installer. You may also configure the feature to use your preferred file manager.

The keen observer might ask why I didn't make two menu items labelled "Privileged file manager here as Administrator" and "Privileged file manager here as Trusted Installer" instead of popping up a dialog with the two choices. That would be more consistent with the other context menu items, but I simply ran out of slots. Context menu items added via the registry (as opposed to a context menu handler) are limited to a maximum of 16 items total (menus and submenus). And I'm definitely not going to write a context menu handler, so there will be no more tools added to the package.

LesFerch · Nov 1, 2024

Right-Click Tools 1.2.0 is now available.

Enhancements:

The privilege elevation task (UAC suppression) is now an optional install.
The language of the context menu items can be forced via a setting in RightClickTools.ini.
The Take ownership console window can be kept open by holding Ctrl when clicking OK.

Almighty1 · Dec 7, 2024

Not sure about this but in addition to Administrator and TrustedInstaller, would NT Authority\System be a good thing to add?

LesFerch · Dec 7, 2024

Almighty1 said:
Not sure about this but in addition to Administrator and TrustedInstaller, would NT Authority\System be a good thing to add?

When you run as TrustedInstaller, it's running as NT Authority\System with the additional access level of the TrustedInstaller service. If I added a new "SYSTEM" option, it would be exactly the same login context, but with slightly less access rights compared to TrustedInstaller. I can't think of any scenario where that would be needed. I either want the highest level access in my login context (i.e. "Run as Administrator") or full access to everything (i.e. "TrustedInstaller"). If a specific requirement is demonstrated, I'll definitely consider it, but as it stands, I think it might just add confusion.

Almighty1 · Dec 8, 2024

LesFerch said:
When you run as TrustedInstaller, it's running as NT Authority\System with the additional access level of the TrustedInstaller service. If I added a new "SYSTEM" option, it would be exactly the same login context, but with slightly less access rights compared to TrustedInstaller. I can't think of any scenario where that would be needed. I either want the highest level access in my login context (i.e. "Run as Administrator") or full access to everything (i.e. "TrustedInstaller"). If a specific requirement is demonstrated, I'll definitely consider it, but as it stands, I think it might just add confusion.

Thanks for the explanation. I only mentioned it because in another thread on a forum, someone suggested to fix a problem to use NT Authority\System or TrustedInstaller and I didn't know TrustedInstaller already included NT Authority\System and even higher access than that so you are right, it's not needed.

Almighty1 · Mar 9, 2025

An idea is in this thread, someone asked for a file unlocker tool and also "open locked folders (i.e. system/trusted installer, etc) to view contents too...without having to go through all of the "take ownership" steps. Is that what "Privileged file manager" is capable of for the later?

LesFerch · Mar 9, 2025

Almighty1 said:
An idea is in this thread, someone asked for a file unlocker tool and also "open locked folders (i.e. system/trusted installer, etc) to view contents too...without having to go through all of the "take ownership" steps. Is that what "Privileged file manager" is capable of for the later?

Yes.

Almighty1 · Tuesday at 11:27 PM

@LesFerch - Right-Click Tools is excellent as I had to use it earlier today as shown here:

Add "Reset Permissions" to Context Menu in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the "Reset Permissions" context menu to reset effective permissions of files and folders back to their default inherited permissions in Windows 10 and Windows 11. On NTFS and ReFS volumes, you can set security permissions on files and folders...

www.elevenforum.com

With the Privileged File Manager in TrustedInstaller mode, there is only one feature I wished it had. Is there a way to change the file/folder creation and modified date stamps and time stamps?

LesFerch · 2025-04-02T01:08:03-0400

Almighty1 said:
@LesFerch - Right-Click Tools is excellent as I had to use it earlier today as shown here:

Add "Reset Permissions" to Context Menu in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the "Reset Permissions" context menu to reset effective permissions of files and folders back to their default inherited permissions in Windows 10 and Windows 11. On NTFS and ReFS volumes, you can set security permissions on files and folders...

www.elevenforum.com

With the Privileged File Manager in TrustedInstaller mode, there is only one feature I wished it had. Is there a way to change the file/folder creation and modified date stamps and time stamps?

I actually started work on an Explorer Helper tool, that is primarily designed to provide functions that work in long paths, and a date touch tool was on the list of features. However, the project is on hold now as I'm spending most of my time these days on a house renovation.

Anyhow, there are many other date touch tools you can use, such as Nirsoft's BulkFileChanger.

Or use a PowerShell Set-ItemProperty command to touch the date. ChatGPT can provide whatever variation you might want.

Almighty1 · 2025-04-02T01:11:05-0400

LesFerch said:
I actually started work on an Explorer Helper tool, that is primarily designed to provide functions that work in long paths, and a date touch tool was on the list of features. However, the project is on hold now as I'm spending most of my time these days on a house renovation.

Anyhow, there are many other date touch tools you can use, such as Nirsoft's BulkFileChanger.

Or use a PowerShell Set-ItemProperty command to touch the date. ChatGPT can provide whatever variation you might want.

I thought the problem is like in this case, it will work on files/folders that is on Administrator but what about things that are higher level like TrustedInstaller?

garlin · 2025-04-02T01:19:28-0400

What I would do is use PowerRun, which gives you an elevated CMD or PowerShell session running as TrustedInstaller. This avoids the messy (and often error prone) method of doing takeown/icacls on folders or files.

LesFerch · 2025-04-02T01:19:43-0400

Almighty1 said:
I thought the problem is like in this case, it will work on files/folders that is on Administrator but what about things that are higher level like TrustedInstaller?

It only matters what context you're in when you run the command.

So, if you use the option "PowerShell Here as TrustedInstaller" and then enter a Set-ItemProperty command to touch the date, that command will be running with TrustedInstaller access.

Similarly, if you double-click an exe, such as BulkFileChanger.exe, from within the Privileged file manager window, that exe will be running with the same access.

LesFerch · 2025-04-02T01:21:05-0400

garlin said:
What I would do is use PowerRun, which gives you an elevated CMD or PowerShell session running as TrustedInstaller. This avoids the messy (and often error prone) method of doing takeown/icacls on folders or files.

@Almighty1 is already using Right-Click Tools to get TrustedInstaller access.

garlin · 2025-04-02T01:23:37-0400

But that's an Explorer window, and not a shell?

LesFerch · 2025-04-02T01:29:44-0400

garlin said:
But that's an Explorer window, and not a shell?

Right-Click Tools provides "Cmd here as TrustedInstaller", "PowerShell here as TrustedInstaller", and "File manager here as TrustedInstaller".

garlin · 2025-04-02T01:34:05-0400

I should pay more attention to which of @Almighty1's threads I'm answering...

Almighty1 · 2025-04-02T11:44:42-0400

LesFerch said:
It only matters what context you're in when you run the command.

So, if you use the option "PowerShell Here as TrustedInstaller" and then enter a Set-ItemProperty command to touch the date, that command will be running with TrustedInstaller access.

Similarly, if you double-click an exe, such as BulkFileChanger.exe, from within the Privileged file manager window, that exe will be running with the same access.

Thanks! Didn't know things run from Privileged file manager would run also run as TrustedInstaller as well.

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