Modifying the right click in Win XP

Folks, this is no big deal and I am sure most of you already know about it but I always seem to forget the registry entry needed and waste time in googling it. Hence jotting it down at this place.

1) To add the command prompt entry to your right click Open Explorer -> Tools(menu) -> Option -> FileTypes (tab) -> Folder Click on the Advanced button. In the dialog box , click on the New Button. In the new dialog box that pops up
Action: Command Prompt (any title)
Application used to perform action : cmd.exe
Click all the Ok buttons and your work is done. Now everytime you right click on any folder, you will see the Command Prompt option which you can use to directly go to the command prompt.

Note: Instead of choosing ‘Folder’(Open Explorer -> Tools(menu) -> Option -> FileTypes (tab)-> Folder) if you choose ‘File Folder’ you are in for some trouble. Everytime now you double click a folder, instead of opening it , it will open the command prompt. Now to solve this problem read point 2) below

2) To change the default action of a right click Many times after you add/remove new actions to a right click it may so happen that because of some mistake your default folder behaviour is changed. In my case every time I double clicked any folder it would open the command prompt (see note in point 1)). This is because some mistake of mine had affected the default behaviour of the folder double click. Set the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell to none and this problem should go away.

3) To remove the options added by various software’s when you install them. E.g. Winzip, Winmerge, etc You have to delete them from - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers