The Right Click Options: Your All-in-one swiss knife

Eyal Alfassi
Apr 22
2 min read

BigFix administrators often find themselves toggling between multiple windows and wizards just to perform routine endpoint tasks.

What if you could streamline common operations like restarting the BigFix Client service, open a remote management console or launching custom scripts directly from the console’s right‑click menu? With a few simple tweaks, you can transform the BigFix Console into a true “one‑click” command center.

The picture on the right showcases the context menu divided into two parts, the default items wrapped in red and the optional ones in blue.

The possibilities are endless...

To start using the Right Click Options, first a task needs to be downloaded, imported and deployed on the endpoints where the BigFix Console is installed.

The task can be downloaded from here.

Once the task has been executed successfully, you should be able see the default items in the context menu.

Note that some options might not work due to limitations or restrictions such as 'Copy IP Address' in case there are multiple IP Addresses on the selected computer.

Another example is the ''Browse Computer' option that might also fail due lacking access permissions or a FW rule blocking SMB protocol between you and the selected computer.

Same goes with every other option that requires access / permission that you don't have.

Here is the error message you will encounter

The menu items are user specific, meaning you can have different options for different users on the same computer.

The settings are modified from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive.

Another cool yet dangerous (You have been warned!), is a registry hack that bypasses the Lock constraint when taking an action on a locked target.

If you don't know / used the Lock option, here's a link with a short description.

Once the 'hack' is in place, an action taken on a locked target with bypass the lock constraint and the action will be taken.

You can enable this little hack, set the following registry value:

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\BigFix\Enterprise Console\Settings

Value Type: REG_DWORD

Value Name: SkipLockedConstraint

Value Data: 1 (Enable ) or 0 (Disable)