In Win98, if you want to get “Open with…” context menu, you will need to press left-shift and simultaneously right-click the file.

In WinXP, right-clicking will always show “Open With…” in the context menu. If you want to have this behavior in your Win98, then create a reg file that contains the following:

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Open With...\command]

@="rundll32.exe C:\\Windows\\system\\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1"

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You can give it any name, such as OpenWith.reg.

Right-click that reg file you just created, then click “Merge” -> “Yes”.

You need to do one more step to avoid double “Open with…” for unknown files, i.e., you can either delete or rename following registry key:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown]

I would suggest to rename it maybe to “Unknown-“, so that you can revert back to the previous properties when you want.

One last note, if you want to do it, you do it at your own risk, I will not be responsible for any consequences. In my Win98SE it works fine though.

Great Thanks For the tip!

For those of you that have followed my tip in this thread, you may face a situation that your long filename is truncated to 8.3 format if you open it with "Open With..." as described in my following post:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...id=538895

In order to avoid it, i.e., preserving the long filename, you need to redo the patch with following reg file:

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Open With...\command]

@="C:\\Windows\\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1"

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Sorry guys for the inconvenience it may cause.