Open With...

[Wijono]

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.

[FoxHound]

Great Thanks For the tip!

[Wijono]

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.