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Editing the right click menu....

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by harpua__

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This is something I have always been curious about, how can you change the options in the right click menu? After installing ME the curiosity set into a necessity.

When I click to open a file folder it defaults to "Search" rather then "open".When I go to right click to open the folder, I notice that "Search" is listed before "open" in my right click menu. Can anyone help get this straightened out before I resort to a reformat?

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by twistypigeon

Surprise!
If you go to the HKEY Classes Root, and expand that, you should be able to find a key called 'folder' If you expand that out, you should be able to see some sub keys. The Open and Explore keys are what you will be interested in. Expand them and you should see keys under them called 'command' and 'ddeexec'. Command shows the command line with parameters, while ddeexec shows the DDE command used. I think it's the DDE used when u click a folder icon.
Mine is [ExploreFolder("%l", %I, %S)] in both Explore and Open cos I've overridden the open functionality to Explore all the time.

Hope this helps!

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