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PowerMenu in Windows 7
27Nov2009 Filed under: General Author: Akshay JainOk, I have been trying to figure out why PowerMenu wasnt working for me in Windows 7 for months now. One of my favourite applications. I can see it running perfectly fine in the system tray but the options of “transparency”, “always on top” and my favourite “Priority” werent coming at all when I right clicked any program.
Here is what comes normally in windows 7 when you right click a program:
As you can see, there are no PowerMenu options coming in this. Now, the trick is to press “SHIFT+Right CLick” whcih will bring the traditional options menu! Here are the results:
Viola and you are done! PowerMenu working with Windows 7!
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Marshall
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I installed PowerMenu onto my Windows 7 64-bit system, but shift+right clicking does nothing for me.
By chance, are you using Windows 7 32-bit?
Akshay Jain
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Yes. I am using Windows 32-bit. Does that Powermenu icon come in your taskbar?
Marshall
December 4th, 2009 at 7:11 am
It is in the taskbar. Shift-right click does bring up the traditional context menu, but no PowerMenu options. PowerMenu is probably incompatible with 64-bit.
Andrew
December 19th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Ahhh such a simple solution to a problem that has stumped me for a while now, Thanks for the Help
Jackson Wall
December 19th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
It works on all programs, but not Windows Live Messenger. When I Shift+Right Click it opens Messenger. Help me please!
chris
December 28th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Works on Win 7 64bit for me
mohmmmed
December 28th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
taaaaaaaaaaanx
Laurens
December 29th, 2009 at 12:58 am
I think it only works on 32bit programs/windows, because I’m running Windows 7 x64 and it does work on the 32bit WMP12 but not on the 64bit version.
bzemer
January 2nd, 2010 at 3:42 pm
I can confirm it works well under Win7 64bit.
Thanks for the tip!
Theo
January 18th, 2010 at 2:57 am
Excellent! I was missing it so much. Works for me on x64 except media player and I don’t use msn.
Rob
January 21st, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Note that you can also get that menu by hovering over a window, then when the aero peek window comes up, right clicking on the aero peek window, if you don’t want to use your keyboard.
pension loan
January 24th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Hi Akshay,
Good to know about powermenu in windows 7 , I have used windows 7 but it was beta edition.
thanks
Pension Loan
Bordwalk2000
January 29th, 2010 at 7:07 am
OMG I LOVE YOU! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Bordwalk2000
January 29th, 2010 at 7:07 am
I’m using windows 7 Pro 64 bit and it works fine.
Marius
February 18th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Got it working on W7 x64 too.
Yusuf
February 21st, 2010 at 6:49 pm
confirmed, only works on 32-bit apps
I’ve posted a comment on the author’s site asking for a 64-bit version, hopefully he’ll update.
zen
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:18 am
thanks man – Godsend. Works in my modded version of w7
k
April 3rd, 2010 at 11:25 am
Still doesn’t seem work for Windows Explorer in Windows 7 (64-bit).
no-sweat
April 10th, 2010 at 4:43 am
worked for me with win 7 64-bit, nice little trick
Frank
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:11 pm
thank you so much man, I like this soft and just now I thought it won’t work on my Windows7.
Steve
May 28th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Thanks!
Pension loans
June 16th, 2010 at 12:42 am
It does have one or two bugs but it does work in Windows 7.
John Madison
June 18th, 2010 at 7:56 am
It only works ONCE per run.
Meaning, if I run it and tell a window to be 50% transparent… That will work… But then nothing else will work till I close it and open it again.
Each time I open it I can use it once before it doesn’t work again. So basically, I have to open + close it each time issue a command to a window.
Deadman
June 30th, 2010 at 7:16 am
Sweet! Thanks man, have had powermenu installed on my win 7 computer from the get go and never got around to getting it working, I’ve had this pc for like 6 months now.
Works on both my win7 64 bit computers with no worries at all
apokorwnas
July 14th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
What about power menu version 2? any news? is it going to support x64 win7?
Eric
July 26th, 2010 at 9:29 am
YYEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
I also just discovered earlier today that you can bring up the “Open command window here” by right clicking on folders with shift… trickery! Anyways, I needed this to keep Sticky Notes on top, as there is no title bar to speak of. Thanks so much!!!
Jenny
August 5th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Sweet!!! Thank you!!!
radixxko
August 11th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Works on Win7/64bit, you just need to reinstall it.
Shane
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:21 am
Worked for me in Windows 64-bit also. Nice trick. I love this program.
Jason
August 26th, 2010 at 4:36 am
Confirmed, works on my Win7 64-bit. However, as noted in other comments, powermenu only seems to work on 32-bit programs only. Which is a shame, because I use many 64-bit programs.
seryi
September 5th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
thx for this, work for me on win7 ultimate 32bit
Myrk
September 9th, 2010 at 8:52 am
To clarify for any Winx64 users still trying to figure out what the others in the comments did, my guess is they held the right mouse button for a short time.
It worked for me.
pension loans
September 15th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
It now works for me on Windows 7 but I needed to modify it slightly. Fine now though.
Dustin Goss
September 16th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Win 7 pro 64. Run it as administrator
Zaixionito
September 16th, 2010 at 7:20 am
Thanks. Simple, and worked.
Jonathan
October 2nd, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Thanks!!! It works great for me with windows 7 64 bits
Cynthia
November 5th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
I was right shift clicking on the actual window. After an hour of researching this I come around to your page and i find my problem was that I wasn’t right shift clicking on the icon in the taskbar. I started clapping because I was so freaking happy! THANKS
eminem248
November 6th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
thanks !! (Y)
boweb
November 9th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Woehoe! Thanks for the tip!
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Anonymous
November 16th, 2010 at 3:11 am
I can confirm that this works on Windows 7 64-Bit.
Cheah Kar Fai
December 1st, 2010 at 12:48 am
It works fine lol but only with 32bit application just like some has point out it works in a 64 enviroment but 32 application
bobby
December 1st, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I’m using 64bit Windows 7.
Works in almost everything I’ve tried, Mozilla, Windows Media Player, Office Apps.
But it doesn’t work with Windows Explorer, Paint, Calculator and microsoft games like freecell and minesweeper.
Maybe it doesn’t work with 64bit applications?
Nigel
December 5th, 2010 at 4:55 am
Can someone tell me where to download Power Menu from for windows 7 64 bit.
thanks
Frank Li
December 7th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
it works for me on Windows7 32bit, but not for all programs,
Thank you anyway, I like this software, it helps a lot!
joey
January 30th, 2011 at 9:57 am
thx alot man,,you rocks!!!
John O
February 2nd, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Akshay! Power Menu is on my ‘must have list’ of tools in the ol’ toolbox! It’s also worth mentioning that your solution works with Windows XP/Vista and Office 2007 apps. Ever since the Ribbon was introduced in Office, the Power Menu issue surfaced with it too! Thanks!
Paw
February 12th, 2011 at 2:21 am
Thanks, just the solution I needed.
Milko Georgiev
April 2nd, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Works on Windows 7 64-bit for me
Thanx a lot!
Joshua Szanto
April 12th, 2011 at 9:46 am
I am using Windows 7 Professional (x64). This program works on only about half of my programs in my taskbar (one of which it *does not work* is Explorer), and transparency is broken.
If you set transparency on something, you can’t change it after you do it, and you have to restart your program to ‘fix’ it.
PowerMenu is not worth it for Windows 7 due to its buginess and lack of decent support for Windows 7.
Pension Loan
May 13th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Its all working for me on Windows 7, thanks
Priyanka
June 11th, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Thanks for the little useful tip. Really nice program.
Ivonne Lopez
June 29th, 2011 at 9:02 am
Muchisimas gracias, no sabia como hacer para que funcionara en windows 7.
Russ
July 30th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Thanks you, Thank you, Thank you…
Lucas
August 21st, 2011 at 12:21 am
T H A N K Y O U
s o M U C H !
ata
September 20th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!
Mordicus
January 6th, 2012 at 2:01 am
It works for 64bit win7, but it doesn’t seem to work with some programs. It doesn’t work for Google Chrome for me.
Race Pro Kid
January 10th, 2012 at 1:43 am
Wow, thanks! I have been needing this for SO LONG! And with some of my programs, they start up with the top of them out of screen, so I couldn’t use them, but now I just hit maximize and… viola! THANK YOU!
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Zakaria Babu
January 29th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Grt U R !!!!
Mn mn Thks…
selken
February 6th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Worked for me on Win 7 64bit!!! Didn’t know you could do that… And I’m supossed to have MSDN and HP certifications :S… so ashamed haha. Thank you very much!!!
arlanda
April 4th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
I have similar issue as Bobby’s. Running Win 7 Pro 64. Will work on all third-party apps except for certain Microsoft-related apps installed by default with the OS.