Re: Add a context menu item to Windows Explorer (Win98) with VB6?

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Again, under Vista, this will fail.


You mean it just doesn't work or are you talking
about the difficulty in writing to HKCR?

Interestingly enough, this will work under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. I've done
it
recently with no ill side effects to speak of...so far. <g>


How can it be done under HKCU? You mean that you
can use the HKCU\Software\Classes subkey in Vista to
augment or override the HKCR key?


- Kev

"mayayana" <mayaXXyana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| You can easily add a custom menu to open a file
| with a specific program. Under HKCR\*\shell you do
| something like this:
|
| HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Notepad\
| default value: "Open with Notepad"
|
| HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Notepad\Command
| default value: "C:\WINDOWS\Notepad.exe %1"
|
| The first value defines the menu item text.
| The second gives the command line path.
| You then just check the Command$ value
| when your program starts to see if you've been
| sent a command line.
|
|
|




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