How do I add an item to the Right Click menu?
John Savill
January 8, 2000
1 Min Read
A. Follow the procedures below:
Start the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE)
Expand the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT by clicking the plus sign
Scroll down and expand the Unknown subkey
Click on the Shell key and right click on it.
Select New from the pop-up menu and choose Key.
Enter the name you want to be displayed, e.g. the name of the application. Click Enter
Right click on the new subkey and click New. Again select Key and enter the name "Command" and click Enter
Click on the newly created Command and double click on "(Default)"
Enter the path and name of the executable with %1, i.e.
d:program filessaveditsavedit.exe %1Close the registry editor
When you right click on a file the new entry will be displayed.
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