Add "Open With..." To Folder Context Menu

[Doctor Trout]

Hey guys

I was wondering, does anyone know of a way to add the "open with..." option to folder context menus? Thanks a lot in advance.

[Viscon]

here:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Open With]
@="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"

copy/paste and save as .reg

then import to registry.

no restart needed.

[Doctor Trout]

Fantastic - I'd nearly given up on finding a way to do this. Cheers a lot mate.

[bledd]

you can also, hold left shift then right click

[spacesurfer]

the left shift trick is a very old one... one that I've forgotten about.

You can actually use that on any file! for example, you can open a *.sys file using notepad for config.sys or an *.sif file for txtsetup.sif.

[CptMurphy]

you can also, hold left shift then right click

I thought left shift was for the runas context menu?

[spacesurfer]

I thought left shift was for the runas context menu?

I think I applied the registry tweak that places Open With... on all file types and Run As on all links and .exe's so I couldn't try this.

However, I believe for links, .exe, .com files... it does the Rus As... and for file types such as .bmp, .jpg, it does Open With...

Can't confirm though.

Edited August 31, 2006 by spacesurfer

[MHz]

The Left Shift trick I use often. To make good use of it to hide least used context menu entries, look at the example reg file.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Bulk Rename Here]
"extended"=""

As you can see, it is one of those programs that want to be shown in your context menu all the time, so rather then remove the entry, I add the "Extended" value which causes the entry to hide in the context menu unless I have the Left Shift key pressed while right clicking the target which then does shows the entry.

[spacesurfer]

That's awesome, MHz. This works for any command you specify.

Here's a quick way to compress and expand your files using expand and makecab commands (using the Left Shift key to show them):

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Expand]
@="Expand"
"extended"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Expand\command]
@="expand -r \"%1\" %cd%"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Makecab]
@="Makecab"
"extended"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Makecab\command]
@="makecab \"%1\""

Edited September 6, 2006 by spacesurfer