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Shrink Menu

Right-click compression for images, audio, and video. Quality slider, format picker, resolution presets — straight from Explorer.

No app to open, no drag-and-drop UI. Select files, right-click, pick your settings — done. Also integrates as a Shrink button inside FFmpeg Convert and Doc Convert pickers.

Windows 10/11 · No admin rights required · ImageMagick 7+ and ffmpeg must be on PATH

Image Compression

Quality slider10–100% — drag to balance size vs. fidelity
Format pickerKeep original / JPEG / PNG / WebP
Smart resizeTarget longest-edge in px, aspect ratio preserved
Output modeOverwrite original or save a compressed copy

Audio Presets

Voice

64 kbps mono MP3

Small

128 kbps MP3

Good

192 kbps MP3

HQ

320 kbps MP3

Opus

96 kbps Opus

Video Presets

1080p

Full HD, H.264

720p

HD, H.264

480p

SD, H.264

Web

Optimised for streaming

Discord

8 MB hard cap

Custom

Enter target height

Features

Right-Click Compression

Select any image, audio, or video file in Windows Explorer, right-click, and hit Shrink. No app window to open — the picker appears inline and compression runs headless.

Integrates with FFmpeg Convert & Doc Convert

Adds a "Shrink..." button directly inside the FFmpeg Convert and Doc Convert format pickers. Compress without leaving the tool you're already using.

No Admin Rights

All registry keys written to HKCU. Installs and uninstalls without an elevation prompt — works on locked-down machines.

Multi-File Batch

Select a whole folder of images or a mix of audio/video files and right-click once. Each file is processed in parallel.

Live Progress

A lightweight progress window shows per-file status and final size reduction percentage. If output is not smaller than input, it flags "No change" in orange rather than silently replacing.

Lossless Format Warning

When a PNG/BMP/TIFF is compressed with "Same" format selected, Shrink warns that lossless formats can't be quality-compressed and offers to convert to JPEG or WebP instead — fixing the "did nothing" case.

PowerShell Native

Core logic is a single .ps1 script. No custom runtime — just PowerShell, which ships with every modern Windows install.

Install

One-click (recommended)

Download ShrinkMenu-Install.exe from Releases and run it. Installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ShrinkMenu\ with no admin prompt.

Manual install

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File install.ps1

Stack

PowerShellImageMagick 7+ffmpegVBScriptHKCU RegistryIExpress Installer