Open++1.5.1

Open++ is a context menu extender that lets you handpick the items to integrate into the right-click menu of files and folders, create custom commands to launch any application, and select the file types to apply modifications for.

Add useful commands to the context menu

With this app you can open the context menu to open a Command Prompt dialog in the current location, copy the item's full path, change properties, create subfolders, view checksums (CRC32, MD5, SHA1), run a program with arguments, register and unregister DLLs, as well as copy and find shortcut targets.Before integrating Open++ into your file explorer's right-click menu, you can set up the configuration details. Worth noting is the tool can be just as easily removed from the shell.

Create new commands, make associations, and set file types

By default, all the previously mentioned commands are included in the menu. You can remove any of them from the list as well as edit properties when it comes to the display name, program, arguments, working directory, and icon.These commands can appear in the context menu when selecting a single file or folder (or both), or multiple files or folders (or both). Moreover, you can create a list with file types, so that Open++ shows the commands only for them.Lastly, it's possible to arrange the context menu entries in any order in the list, add new commands from scratch, insert separators, and implement a command for bringing up this configuration panel.

Evaluation and conclusion

There were no stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the utility didn't hang, crash or prompt error dialogs. Unsurprisingly, it didn't hog system resources.To wrap it up, Open++ offers a convenient solution for adding practical commands to the right-click menu of files and folders. However, it needs (some) advanced skills for creating custom commands.