Does Verbs() support Submenus

[shetty_rohan04 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 1 Points: 17Rank: Member]

I have written a small piece of code which displays context menu for  Devices&Printers. This does not work for menu items, which have submenus.

$o = new-object -com Shell.Application
$folder = $o.NameSpace(“shell:::{A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}”)
foreach ($item in $folder.Items())
{
If ($item.Name -eq ‘iCR6X–1613950’)
{

# below does not print menu items which have submenu
$item.Verbs()
}
}

 

Any help is appreciated.

Rohan

[Doug Maurer Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 480 Points: 1,748Rank: Community Hero]

Both of these show the items I’d expect. They are not blank. Not sure why they would be blank for you?

foreach ($item in $folder.Items()){$item.name}
foreach ($item in $folder.Items())
{
    foreach($verb in $item.verbs())
    {
        $verb.name
    }
}

Some of the output

CutePDF Writer
HP USB Optical Mouse
Microsoft Print to PDF
HP Compaq LA2405 Wide LCD Monitor
Logitech H570e Mono
Fax
LifeCam Cinema

&Network settings            
S&ound settings              
&Mouse settings              
&Keyboard settings           
&Regional                    
S&ystem properties           
Device &installation settings
Po&wer options               
Windows &Update  

[shetty_rohan04]

Thanks for the reply.

You can easily reproduce this by using the below powershell script(https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/use-powershell-to-work-with-windows-explorer/), which also does not display menu containing submenus.

$o = new-object -com Shell.Application
$folder = $o.NameSpace(“C:\Windows\System32”)
$file=$folder.ParseName(“notepad.exe”)
$file.Verbs()|select Name

 

 

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 5 days ago by shetty_rohan04.

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