You can add Slide Show to the context menu in Windows 10. This will allow you to start a slide show from a folder containing images directly from the right-click menu. Here is how it can be done.
By default, the slide show can be started from the Ribbon user interface in File Explorer. When you open some folder with pictures, a new tab, Manage Picture Tools, will appear in the Ribbon. One of its buttons is Slide show. Select at least one image and click the button. The slide show will play the images.
You can save your time and add the useful Slide show command to the context menu in File Explorer.
To add Slide Show to the context Menu in Windows 10, do the following.
Apply the Registry tweak listed below. Paste its contents inside Notepad and save as a *.reg file.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shellWindows.slideshow]
"CanonicalName"="{73BCE053-3BBC-4AD7-9FE7-7A7C212C98E6}"
"CommandStateHandler"="{880ac964-2e34-4425-8cf2-86ada2c3a019}"
"CommandStateSync"=""
"Description"="@shell32.dll,-31288"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5347"
"MediaTypeFlags"=dword:00000005
"MUIVerb"="@shell32.dll,-31287"
"VerbToInvoke"="slideshow"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shellWindows.slideshowcommand]
"DelegateExecute"="{80c68d96-366b-11dc-9eaa-00161718cf63}
In Notepad, press Ctrl + S or execute the File – Save item from the File menu. This will open the Save dialog. There, type or copy-paste the name “Slideshow.reg” including quotes.
Double quotes are important to ensure that the file will get the “*.reg” extension and not *.reg.txt. You can save the file to any desired location, for example, you can put it in your Desktop folder.
Double click the file you created, confirm the import operation and you are done:
To understand how this tweak works, refer to my previous article where I explained how to add any Ribbon command to the Context menu in Windows 10. See
How to add any Ribbon command to the right click menu in Windows 10
In short, all the Ribbon commands are stored under this Registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerCommandStoreshell
You can export the desired command and modify the exported *.Reg in order to add it to the context menu of files, folders, or any other object visible in File Explorer.
To save your time, I made ready-to-use Registry files. You can download them here:
Alternatively, you can use Context Menu Tuner. It will allow you to add any Ribbon command to the context menu.
Select “Slide Show” in the list of available commands, select “All Files” on the right side and click the “Add” button (See the screenshot above). You can get the app here:
That’s it.