Adding right-click menu items from files and folders

Well, I was going through my own post on removing right-click menu items from files and folders and I found that something was missing. People not only want to remove items, they also want to add items in their right-click, don’t they? First I thought that a little change in the previous post should do that. I thought that just adding a key in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers should do the trick but it didn’t. Then I searched for the tweak and finally found just to facilitate my readers with it. Just back up your registry first then follow the procedure.

Start -> run
Type ‘regedit’ (without quotes) and enter
The registry editor will open
Navigate yourself to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
Right-click the Shell key and choose New -> Key
Name it anything, this will appear in the right-click menu
Then right-click the new key that you made and create another key
Name it ‘command’
Select ‘command’ and in the right-pane double click the default value
Enter the name of application(e.g. wordpad.exe) , click OK and exit the registry
The above process is for adding the item in the right-click of the folder only. To do same for files you need to navigate yourself to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell. If there is no shell key, create one and the rest of the process is same as above.

Enjoy this trick and please comment. Your comments are valuable to me.