How To Add An Item In Right Click Menu?

Windows provides a lot of customization options but most of them are unaware to the normal user but getting to know those tweaks can serve you better and computing made easy. One such trick is to add an item in the right click on any folder, you can have access to that application.Lets see how to add an item in the right click menu.

How To Add An Item In Right Click Menu?

Step1: Click on Start Menu and select Run

Step2:Type “Regedit” and click OK.

Step3: Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell.

Step4: Add a new Key to the “Shell” Key and name it anything you like. Give it a default value that will appear when you right click a folder. i.e. NewKey (use an “&” without the quotes, in front of any character and it will allow you to use the keyboard).

Step5: Navigate and click on the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\NewKey. Now you have to add a New Key named Command and Set the (Default) value of the application you want to run. For example: c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe (Include the full path)