How does one get a program into the right-click menu?

[Peter Jason]

I want to use the old "Microsoft Photo Editor"
(used for ME, & XP) shortcut into the Win7 SP1
right mouse click selections.

How is this done?

 

[...winston]

Have you managed to successfully install the ME/XP Photo Editor on Win7 ?



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"Peter Jason" wrote in message

I want to use the old "Microsoft Photo Editor"
(used for ME, & XP) shortcut into the Win7 SP1
right mouse click selections.

How is this done?

 

[Dave-UK]

I want to use the old "Microsoft Photo Editor"
(used for ME, & XP) shortcut into the Win7 SP1
right mouse click selections.

How is this done?

Open regedit and go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell

Right-click the 'shell' key and select 'New > Key'.
Name the new key ' Microsoft Photo Editor '.
Right-click Microsoft Photo Editor and select 'New > Key'.
Name the new key 'command'.

In the right pane double-click on (Default) and enter a command like this:

"c:\windows\notepad.exe" "%1"

This will open any file with notepad.
Edit this string for your program's exe path.
(Include the quotes and space.)

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I want to use the old "Microsoft Photo Editor" (used for ME, & XP)
shortcut into the Win7 SP1 right mouse click selections.

How is this done?

There are usually several ways to do anything with Windows. Dave-UK
suggests one. Another option is to add a shortcut to the "SendTo" folder.
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

 

[meagain]

There are usually several ways to do anything with Windows. Dave-UK
suggests one. Another option is to add a shortcut to the "SendTo" folder.
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

That is my favorite solution to the issue. By having items in the
'sendto" folder it is easy to make additions and corrections without
the dangers inherent in editing the registry.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I want to use the old "Microsoft Photo Editor"
(used for ME,& XP) shortcut into the Win7 SP1
right mouse click selections.

How is this done?

FileTypesMan - Alternative to 'File Types' manager of Windows
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html

 

[Peter Jason]

There are usually several ways to do anything with Windows. Dave-UK
suggests one. Another option is to add a shortcut to the "SendTo" folder.
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

Thanks, this works great.