CMenuExtender is a shell extension that lets the user add items to the Explorer contextmenu. Using any registry-editor or the supplied GUI, the user can add submenus and items such as shortcuts to programs, documents, folders, webpages and scripts. CMExt also has some predefined commands for copying, moving and retrieving information on files and directories.

2003 Jul 11

Revenger inc. suspends all operations. See the frontpage for more details.

2002 Oct 22

Since it has been over a year since we last wrote something here, we thought it was about time to make a little update.

We are recieving input from users every now and then, to spark new ideas about where to take the project for the next release. All such input and suggestions are very welcome and very interesting. We have several new features that we plan to implement for the next release, as well as some bugfixes and corrections. These features should hopefully fit seamlessly into the users current setup, using the XML-ish type of configuration we introduced previously.

The source code and other parts of the project has been shared with other developers on several occasions during the past year. We hope that our work on CMExt has been helpful to these developers, helping them to make good software. Even though we have let some selected developers take part of the source, we have no plans at the moment to release CMExt as open source. Possibly the 1.2-tree could be released when 1.3 has been established.

One of the things that has been holding the project back for a while has been the technical part. The technical part involves making CMExt work on all Windows versions, making it look good, making it consistent and "forward compatible". Even though Microsoft are pouring out new versions and service packs at a hysterical rate, this process has been going quite well, and had it not been for some hardware problems, a new version could have been realized by now.

So to conclude, we have a lot in store for the 1.3 series of CMExt and we are well on our way. As usual the development is on an ad hoc basis, and there is no telling when a new version could come out, but we have our aims set for sometime around the end of the year.

2001 Oct 19

By releasing v 1.2.1.2 (still called cmext121.zip), we end the development of the 1.2.* series. By adding some more options to the move- and copycommands, we think that 1.2.* is as good as it'll get. The next release will (hopefully) be a beta from the 1.3.* series, with some of the features in the TODO-list. There's no telling when it will be done, but if you want to know about it you can sign up for the Newsletter.

At this point, we also want to thank all the users who have sent us bugreports and suggestions for 1.2.*, and hope that you will continue to do so for 1.3.* in the future.

2001 Aug 31

We fixed the problem and now release v 1.2.1.1. Don't care to much about the version numbering, we're not sure we understand it either. :) The file is still called cmext121.zip and is found on the download-page.

2001 Aug 30

Oh, darn... Seems like we messed up. An user reported that CMExt doesn't work when trying to copy or move to a browsed folder. And he's right. It doesn't. We had forgotten to change four appearances of "commandLine" to "dest" in the sourcecode. A small mistake, but since we've had some publicity lately it's quite embarrassing. We should have tested the software better before we released it to simtel.net, and we apologize. We'll release a fix for it ASAP, but right now we're gonna mope and throw some blame around our beta-testers.

2001 Jul 31

The planning of features for the next version begins. Some new ideas are added to the TODO-list. Now when we have a nice registryformat, and a modular structure, we can concentrate on adding nice commands and functions to make CMExt more versatile and useful.

2001 Jun 28

There, finally. The new version is out and has loads of improvements compared to previous versions. Find it on the downloadpage. And then send us suggestions on what to do next.

2001 Jun 07

Everything seems to work fine, so when the new manual for CMExtEd is done, the new release will be sent to the various archives on the internet. No further features will be added to this version.

2001 May 25

The new version goes to beta-testing. It can be found here.

2001 Apr 20

The extension is more or less done, and now the efforts are aimed at the editor. The GUI has a new appearance again, and is even more compact than the one currently available. The new registry format is very handy to edit with Regedit, so most should be able to handle it even without a GUI. Some more work on the editor and the beta-testing can begin. Anyone interested in participating in the testing can send a little mail to us. No pay, no benefits, no drawbacks.

2001 Apr 06

After having spent weeks just looking at the sorry mess that constitutes the sourcecode for CMenuExtender, sighing heavily and time after time giving up on sorting it out, we decided to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. The first snippets of code for CMenuExtender has been patched over and over again as new functionality has been added. Therefore the code is now so messy that none of us can sort it out. That's the drawback of not setting up clear goals before starting the projects. But in our belief, organization hamper creativity... :)

2001 Feb 11

The TODO-list is added. Now everybody in the whole wide world can see how little that actually gets done on CMExt.

2001 Jan 30

The new, much improved, version of CMExt is out! This version has been charged with more functions and a quite nice editor. Installing has been made much easier and the documentation has been rewritten.
The next version will probably have more predefined commands and some other features that we'll think of along the way. We will also rewrite parts of CMExt to improve the NT-performance. Suggestions on how to improve CMExt is much appreciated.

2001 Jan 29

The upcoming version of CMExt will have support for operating on files and directories. Some new functions has been added and some has changed a bit. Most of the predefined commands supports multiselection. There are some changes in presentation of the menuitems, for instance shortcuts to programs, which will be grayed since most programs can't make sense of having several files given as argument. The GUI has been rewritten and has a nicer appearance. It also works "behind the scenes" by installing the COM-server and handling updates. There is also a new manual in HTML-format that will be a bit more helpful than the old text-documents. The registry-format remains unchanged, so settings made with v1.1 will work without any changes. Some download sites has listed CMExt as working on NT/2000, which is true only to a limited extent. CMExt should work, but not all functions in CMExtEd.

Some screenshots

The configuration window.	The menu with the custom items and submenus.