Adding your own options to the XP right click menu.
Written by Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com on October 26, 2009 – 6:30 am -As avid Windows users you have seen how applications add right click menu options. For instance Mcafee antiVirus adds a shortcut to Scan For Threats in the selected folder or Resco’s options to encrypt or de-crypt a folder.
It is actually pretty easy and involves NO registry editing like you might have expected. Simply open up my computer choose Folder Options and then File Types
And then click the advanced button and then the New button to associate an Action with this file type. For this example I am associating JPG files with editing in Adobe CS2. In the action line I type what I want to show up on the right click menu and the application used to perform action is the command line for the magic behind the shortcut.
I advise you to use the Browse button to browse on over to the EXE associated with the application you want to open. Here I browsed over to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Photoshop.exe . It puts this in quotes leave them there and put a space after the last quote and add another quote followed by %L and another quote. This passes the selected file name to the application. Without this it will just open Photoshop and what good it that?
But after you are finished and click ok on all the open windows you can go check out your handy work by right clicking on a JPG…
And what do you know? It actually works! Ah what a great way to start the day shaving valuable seconds off of my work flow. It might give me an extra 15 minutes over the course of the day to play with FireNes!
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By Joel Thomas on Jun 27, 2008 | Reply
This is what I have been looking for. Now I can customize all things I have been wanting
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By AskTheAdmin on Jun 27, 2008 | Reply
Glad to have helped Joel! Come back and let us know what you changed! We love to hear success stories.
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By ElvenEyes on Jul 8, 2008 | Reply
There is a little program which will add a right click option "Open With" to any file. This helps keep your context menu clutter-free as you only have one item on it instead of all the "Open With" items you would have with the above method. The menu which opens to the side gives you the option of adding a program (you can add multiple programs to each file type), or you can choose a program you have already added, and it gives you the opportunity to specify the order in which you want those programs to appear. For instance, you can right click on a JPEG and it will only give you the programs you've chosen for JPEGs, not programs you've chosen for GIFs. The program is called OpenExpert, and it's available from http://www.download.com/OpenExpert/3000-2094_4-10...“>. “>http://www.download.com/OpenExpert/3000-2094_4-10.... Hope this helps everybody!
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By Jocelyn on Jul 24, 2008 | Reply
Will this work for Windows Vista?
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By AskTheAdmin on Jul 25, 2008 | Reply
Most of the time. What are you trying to add Jocelyn?
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By Shreela on Apr 30, 2009 | Reply
This also works with w98. I don’t know about w2k; we skipped that one.
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By Wongsk on May 2, 2009 | Reply
Great.with this tip then no need install software to add right click option.
Is it easy to delete the option ?
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By Xaib on Oct 26, 2009 | Reply
Another easiest way is file menu tools.This software can be downloaded from http://www.lopesoft.com/en/index.html for free.
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Thanks!
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