How to emulate context menu key when there's none on keyboard?

Imagine a keyboard that lacks Win key. That's easy to emulate - you just press CtrlEsc. However, on the keyboard I have now, there's no "right mouse" key (or "context menu" key or whatever it might be called - it's usually placed close to AltGr and bears the sign of three horizontal bars or something).

I'm very used to pressing that key and not having it around slows me down (not to mention the annoyance aspect). How can I emulate it on this limited keyboard?

3 Answers

I think you're looking for Shift + F10.

EDIT: Some smaller keyboards require you to use the Fn key in combination with F1 - F12 to use them. Most of the time you can 'function lock' with Fn + CapsLock or change the default behavior of the F keys in the BIOS.

The button you're referring to is called the 'Menu key' btw.

You can use AutoHotKey to remap the menu key to another key on your keyboard (even without having the key on your keyboard).

I detest the Caps Lock key, so I would use that instead:

Install AHK, and create a notepad file, ending with .ahk, containing:

CapsLock::AppsKey

This triggers the menu key (AppsKey) when the caps lock button is pressed.

If you don't want to use the Caps Lock key, see here for a list of keys AHK supports.

I found using AutoHotKey with the following script seemed to work

<^>!m::AppsKey
return 

mapping

AltGr + m 

to the Context Menu / Apps Key / Menu Key

For some reason if I tried to use just the AltGr Key

<^>!

it didn't work, I needed to add another key and chose "m" as it's close and easy to hit in combo.

To have this mapping run automatically after a reboot :

• win + R
• type shell:common startup
• Copy a shortcut to the AHK script and paste it in here
• might say you can't and do you want it on desktop
• If so say yes then cut and paste it from desktop to the startup folder

N.B. if other people use the machine and do NOT want the mapping, use

shell:startup 

instead