Access context menu item from CLI

Question

Hello all,

I'm looking for a way to access a specific context menu item from the CLI in Windows 10.

I have limited experience with registry items like the context menu and the way they interact with other Windows components.

In the perfect situation I would run a script which would access the given button and execute it using a file I determined earlier in the script.

I exported the registry item in text below:
Key Name: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers{A9868662-7D07-4504-B679-EA985BXXXXXX}
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 14/06/2022 - 12:38
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_SZ
Data: PureRawContextMenu.ShellExtensionv2

Anyone who has done this or knows wether or not it's possible to be accessed outside the Windows context menu?
I know it's possible on other operating systems but I would like to make it work on my existing Windows 10 machine.

The best,
Thomas

Answer 1

Hi Thomas,

You can try with PowerShell.

Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath 'HKLM:\Software\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers'  
  
#to get the Item properties...  
 Get-ItemProperty -LiteralPath 'HKLM:\Software\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{A9868662-7D07-4504-B679-EA985BXXXXXX}'  
  
  

Pls note, we must use "-LiteralPath" since path has '*' in it.