Ability to hide the "Properties" item from the taskbar context menu

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Tested on OS build 22000.434.
 * Option to disable `Office` hotkeys (`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Shift`+`Windows` key combinations) (#661) (.4)
 * Simple Window Switcher can switch applications instead of windows (#665) (.5, .6)
 * Option to disable rounded corners for windows (.7)
+* Ability to hide the "Properties" item from the taskbar context menu (.9)
 
 #### Feature enhancements
 

ExplorerPatcher/dllmain.c

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ BOOL bDoNotRedirectProgramsAndFeaturesToSettingsApp = FALSE;
 BOOL bDoNotRedirectDateAndTimeToSettingsApp = FALSE;
 BOOL bDoNotRedirectNotificationIconsToSettingsApp = FALSE;
 BOOL bDisableOfficeHotkeys = FALSE;
+DWORD bNoPropertiesInContextMenu = FALSE;
 #define TASKBARGLOMLEVEL_DEFAULT 2
 #define MMTASKBARGLOMLEVEL_DEFAULT 2
 DWORD dwTaskbarGlomLevel = TASKBARGLOMLEVEL_DEFAULT;
@@ -1447,6 +1448,8 @@ HMENU explorer_LoadMenuW(HINSTANCE hInstance, LPCWSTR lpMenuName)
             menuInfo.fType = MFT_STRING;
             menuInfo.dwTypeData = buffer;
             menuInfo.cch = wcslen(buffer);
+            if (!bNoPropertiesInContextMenu)
+            {
                 InsertMenuItemW(
                     hSubMenu,
                     GetMenuItemCount(hSubMenu) - 4,
@@ -1455,6 +1458,7 @@ HMENU explorer_LoadMenuW(HINSTANCE hInstance, LPCWSTR lpMenuName)
                 );
             }
         }
+    }
     return hMenu;
 }
 
@@ -1764,12 +1768,15 @@ INT64 Shell_TrayWndSubclassProc(
                 menuInfo.fType = MFT_STRING;
                 menuInfo.dwTypeData = buffer;
                 menuInfo.cch = wcslen(buffer);
+                if (!bNoPropertiesInContextMenu)
+                {
                     InsertMenuItemW(
                         hSubMenu,
                         GetMenuItemCount(hSubMenu) - 1,
                         TRUE,
                         &menuInfo
                     );
+                }
 
                 INT64* unknown_array = NULL;
                 if (bSkinMenus)
@@ -4363,6 +4370,15 @@ void WINAPI LoadSettings(LPARAM lParam)
             &dwSize
         );
         dwSize = sizeof(DWORD);
+        RegQueryValueExW(
+            hKey,
+            TEXT("NoPropertiesInContextMenu"),
+            0,
+            NULL,
+            &bNoPropertiesInContextMenu,
+            &dwSize
+        );
+        dwSize = sizeof(DWORD);
         RegQueryValueExW(
             hKey,
             TEXT("NoMenuAccelerator"),

ExplorerPatcher/settings.reg

@@ -433,6 +433,8 @@
 ;d Enable SysListView32 for Explorer views *
 @=""
 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ExplorerPatcher]
+;b Do not show the program settings item ("Properties") in the taskbar context menu
+"NoPropertiesInContextMenu"=dword:00000000
 ;b Enable symbols download *
 "EnableSymbolDownload"=dword:00000001
 ;i Do not hook Start menu from main Explorer process (permanently disabled) *

version.h

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #define VER_MAJOR 22000
 #define VER_MINOR 434
 #define VER_BUILD_HI    41
-#define VER_BUILD_LO 8
+#define VER_BUILD_LO 9
 #define VER_FLAGS   VS_FF_PRERELEASE
 
 
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@
 #define VER_STR(arg) #arg
 
 // The String form of the version numbers
-#define VER_FILE_STRING VALUE "FileVersion", "22000.434.41.8"
-#define VER_PRODUCT_STRING VALUE "ProductVersion", "22000.434.41.8"
+#define VER_FILE_STRING VALUE "FileVersion", "22000.434.41.9"
+#define VER_PRODUCT_STRING VALUE "ProductVersion", "22000.434.41.9"