Make Explorer Context Menu More Intuitive?

I like the condensed Explorer context menu, but I want to move some menuitems from full to condensed. My full context menu reaches from screen top to bottom, full of choices I didn't authorize and don't use, like, "Unlock with File Locksmith", and "Shred using AVG". I know how to clean it up, just haven't taken the time.
It apparently isn't intuitive, either. IF I right-click on a music folder, all the music-related menuitems, like "Play with Windows Media Player", are on the full menu, not the condensed. Right-click on a PDF, and all the PDF-related menuitems are on the full menu; none on the condensed.
I know how to get rid of "Show more options", but that isn't what I want. Something determines whether a menuitem shows on the condensed menu or not. Is it possible to flag a menuitem as being for the condensed menu rather than only the full one?

The whole idea of the “condensed context menu” is kind of in the name itself.

Try adding entries to the following and see if they show without removing “More Options”

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell

Right-click “shell”, select “New > Key” and name it after the action you want to add.
Inside the new key, create another key named “command”.
Modify the (Default) value of the “command” key to point to the executable or script you want to run.
If you want the entry to appear in the main context menu instead of "More Options," create a “Position” subkey and set its value to `"Top"

Don’t hold me to that though.

You could also try using Right Click Tools, however I am not sure what it can do.

@GollyRojer

Winaero Tweaker can do a lot of Context menu edits.
And... Winaero Tweaker provides links to web pages that show you how the tweak works.
This will show you many of the registry entries involved.




For example...





Here's all the things you can tweak with Winaero...

What fits where depends on the developer of a particular program.
This is currently defined in the AppxManifest.xml file.
For example, for Notepad

Get-ChildItem -Force "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\*Microsoft.WindowsNotepad*\AppxManifest.xml" | ForEach-Object {explorer $_.FullName}

But you can specify the program to process files by their extensions in 'Open with'

Ghot said:

Winaero Tweaker can do a lot of Context menu edits.

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Thanks, Ghot. I have Winaero Tweaker buried in my Software folder. I've had it since it first appeared. I was hesitant to use it because I thought it was probably obsolete by now. On your recommendation, I'll give it a go.

GollyRojer said:

Thanks, Ghot. I have Winaero Tweaker buried in my Software folder. I've had it since it first appeared. I was hesitant to use it because I thought it was probably obsolete by now. On your recommendation, I'll give it a go.

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I just use it for a few tweaks, but it seems to work.