{"id":341,"date":"2008-06-21T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T06:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2021-05-24T19:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:54:50","slug":"add-select-all-option-to-the-context-menu-in-windows-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/add-select-all-option-to-the-context-menu-in-windows-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Select All option to the context menu in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

To select all files in a folder or the Desktop, you use the CTRL + A<\/b> keyboard shortcut. If you’re an avid mouse user and need the select all functionality in the right-click menu in Windows, here is a registry tweak. This tweak adds the “Select All” option in the context menu for folder background and desktop. <\/p>\n

Adding Select All option to the context menu<\/h2>\n

For Windows 10 only<\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. Copy the following contents to Notepad.\n
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  \r\n\r\n[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Directory\\Background\\shell\\Windows.selectall] \r\n\"CanonicalName\"=\"{b33bf5af-76d5-4d10-93e7-d8e22e93798f}\" \r\n\"CommandStateHandler\"=\"{3756e7f5-e514-4776-a32b-eb24bc1efe7a}\" \r\n\"CommandStateSync\"=\"\" \r\n\"Description\"=\"@shell32.dll,-31277\" \r\n\"Icon\"=\"imageres.dll,-5308\" \r\n\"ImpliedSelectionModel\"=dword:00000020 \r\n\"MUIVerb\"=\"@shell32.dll,-31276\" \r\n\"Position\"=\"Bottom\" \r\n\"NeverDefault\"=\"\" \r\n \r\n[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Directory\\Background\\shell\\Windows.selectall\\command] \r\n\"DelegateExecute\"=\"{aa28fbc7-59f1-4c42-9fd8-ba2be27ea319}\" \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Save the file with a .reg extension, say selectall.reg<\/li>\n
  3. Double-click selectall.reg to apply the contents to the registry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    You’ll see the Select All option in the right-click menu in the desktop and folder background.<\/p>\n
    RELATED:<\/strong> How to Add Ribbon Command to Right-click Menu in Windows 10<\/a><\/div>\n
    To remove the option, make another file named undo.reg with the following contents and run it.<\/p>\n
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  \r\n\r\n[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Directory\\Background\\shell\\Windows.selectall] \r\n<\/pre>\n
    For Windows 8 & earlier<\/h3>\n
      \n
    1. Download selectall.zip<\/a> and save it to the Desktop.<\/li>\n
    2. Unzip the archive and extract the contents to a folder.<\/li>\n
    3. Move selectall.vbs<\/b> to the C:\\Windows<\/b> directory.<\/li>\n
    4. Double-click selectall.reg <\/b>to add the Select All<\/b> context menu option.<\/li>\n
    5. The Select All<\/b> option is added to the right-click menu. This menu option will be seen when you right-click on the Desktop and right-clicking on an empty area in a folder.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      How to Undo:\u00a0 <\/b>To remove the Select All<\/b> option from the right-click menu, run the file undo.reg<\/code>. Then delete the file selectall.vbs<\/code> manually from the Windows directory.<\/p>\n
      More Information<\/h4>\n
      The selectall.vbs<\/b> file powers the Select All<\/b> option in the context menu. It uses the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) SendKeys<\/a> method to send the keystroke CTRL<\/code> + A<\/code><\/b> for selecting all items in a folder. Here are the contents of the file selectall.vbs.<\/p>\n
      set oShell = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\")\r\noShell.SendKeys \"^a\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      To select all files in a folder or the Desktop, you use the CTRL + A keyboard shortcut. If you’re an avid mouse user and need the select all functionality in the right-click menu in Windows, here is a registry tweak. This tweak adds the “Select All” option in the context menu for folder background … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,441],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-context-menu","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24381,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/add-open-command-window-here-menu-windows-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":341,"position":0},"title":"How to Add “Open command window here” in Windows 11","author":"Ramesh","date":"October 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"In Windows 11, the context menu \"Open Command window here\" doesn't exist by default. 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