Prevent windows explorer shell context menu from being dumbed-down when selecting over 15 items

Question

I don't know if you guys noticed this but when you select over 15 items in Windows Explorer, the Shell context menu gets cut to 4 or 5 items.

Here is an example:

Another example, I've written my own libraries of registry hacks that I keep in reg files and as soon as I select more than 15 reg files, the merge option goes away. Now I know I can merge .reg files from command prompt using a wild card but I'd rather use the GUI as I can fine tune which reg file I want to merge more easily.

Is there anyway of preventing this behavior? A registry hack of sort? A ResourceHack? If not, is there some way of edit the 15+ context menu to add items I need?

Answer 1

A big thanks to superuser w32sh who posted this link in the comment section: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/context-menu-missing-15-files-selected/

To sum up the link:

Open RegEdit.exe, goto

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Make a D-Word value called MultipleInvokePromptMinimum. You can then edit it and increase the 15 item minimum to the quantity you want (select decimal when setting quantity as hex is default).

Thanks guys!