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Roger Fink wrote:
Luke wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:42:25 -0500, "jackson" wrote: Many centuries ago I once knew (due to the graciousness of a poster in a forum such as this), a way to add the "open with" so it appears any time you right click on a file. It's been so long since I've need that info I've forgotten how to do it. Can anyone provide that procedure - I'm thinking it was a registry edit but I just can't remember. Shift | Right Click will give you Open With in the context menu on a case by case basis. This site I found it with a Google search on "add open with right click context menu" has a registry edit it says will add Open With permanently. I haven't tried the hack so offer it as-is: http://www.activewin.com/tips/reg/menus_2.shtml Didn't work for me, and the instructions couldn't be literally followed regarding copying the value, although you can still do it. Note: there is this statement in the registry tips contents page ( http://www.activewin.com/tips/reg/ ): "Note: All the tips are labeled properly so that nothing will go wrong." What a relief. Just to follow up on this, my experience was that the hack both here and at dadiOH's location put the command in the context menu but but in both cases clicking it produced an error box. When I used shift, right click, the same command was brought up (so that it appeared twice on the menu), but this one brought up the box with the applications. |
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Gary S. Terhune wrote:
I forget, for the moment, how to do that, but here's a little app I'd try, if I was in the market. If you do try it, please give us a report, OK? http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html Seems no takers, so I tried it. It does what it says I suppose, but you would have to configure the list of applications that you want to use to open a file with. I can't imagine it being easier than highlighting the file by clicking it once, then holding the shift key and right-clicking, unless you have an extraordinary amount of files you need that for everyday. The registry edit that Luke posted (http://www.activewin.com/tips/reg/menus_2.shtml) does work, the drawback being that it only shows up on "unknown" files, so for a file that you already have associated with a program, you would still need to use the hold shift & right-click method. Perhaps there is a way to add it to the registry so that it always shows up, if anybody wants to play around with it. Here is the registry entry created: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\shell\openas\command with this as the value: C:\WINDOWS\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1 MM |
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:59:21 -0600, "Mostly Me (MM)"
wrote: [snip] The registry edit that Luke posted (http://www.activewin.com/tips/reg/menus_2.shtml) does work, the drawback being that it only shows up on "unknown" files, so for a file that you already have associated with a program, you would still need to use the hold shift & right-click method. [snip] I found some time to play with this. For the little it's worth, for me the reg edit I found a-googling _does_ give an Open With command on the right click context menu on files with associations. That edit in HKCR and dadiOH's identical edit in HKLM both put the new keys and value in both branches. I suppose anyone who understands the registry would know this :-). Changing the value of "%1" to "%0" did not work, for me, to default "Always use this program to open this type of file" to unchecked. Drats! I'll stick with Shift | Right Click. -- Luke |
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