petrus

The first thing i do is to replace the god awful new windows file explorer. With either Directory Opus - the ultimate Windows Explorer Replacement or any free-ware alternative like Multi Commander or Explorer++.

It looks like Windows 7 environment variables in the registry must be of the type REG_EXPAND_SZ (hexadecimal). That means "Command"=hex(2):22,25,57,49,4e,44,49,52,25,5c,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,22,00 instead of "Command"="%WINDIR%\\system32" (which does work on Windowx XP and 2000). edit: except for icons, where you can still use "icon"="%WINDIR%\\system32\\shell32.dll,4" for example.

And right away another problem, do system variables like %ProgramFiles% no longer work the same? If i set the path in a .reg file as one of those it again longer works, like there is no path at all.

I figured it out, the following works: @="mplayer.exe \"%1\""

Not if you put the file into the system32 folder, but that was just as an example, never mind the path.

I'm trying to add mplayer.exe to the context menu, the old fashioned way via the registry: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with mplayer] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with mplayer\command] @="mplayer.exe %1" Works fine on Windows XP, but now on Windows 7, when right clicking a file and selecting open with mplayer i get: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." Disabled UAC, gave file security permissions, the security center service is disabled... i have no idea what to do next.

>I am expecting end of March for the public beta if all goes well. Make it April eight for some symbolism, that's the Windows XP end-of-support date.

No worries, this is just for experimenting on a virtual machine, to figure things out, not for a deployed system.

Is there a way to permanently disable the following pop-up message which appears when merging .reg files? This: "Adding information can unintentionally change or delete values and cause components to stop working correctly. If you do not trust the source of this information in (path to registry file), do not add it to the registry. Are you sure you want to continue?" It's driving me nuts, and even after searching around Google for a while i couldn't figure it out. Thanks. <EDIT /> And solved, just adding the /s silent switch to the registry does the trick: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\open\command]@="regedit.exe /s \"%1\""This way registry files are merged without any confirmation pop up whatsoever!