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Ramesh Soni
Asked: 2009-06-20 00:18:01 +0800 CST

Customize right click context menu in windows xp?

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How can I add a new item to right click menu for any file type and associate a action to this without using any third party tool. I hope it is possible using some registry hack..

windows-xp

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  1. Best Answer

    Paste the following into a .reg file:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\MakeSomethingUp]
@="This text will appear in the context menu"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\MakeSomethingUp\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\MyApp\\MyApp.exe\" \"%1\""

    Import that file into the Registry.

    Does that do what you need?

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  3. If you want it to happen for any file type, and you're just passing the file as an arg to the program in question, you can put a shortcut to the program in your SendTo menu (at %userprofile%\SendTo). I keep Notepad and Wordpad in there all the time.

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