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A few Little Registry Tricks that will make your developing life easier (Part 1)

31 May, 2008

Author: Elad Karako
Israeli Netanya Academic College (CS b.Sc)

Summary
Context Menu For:
DLL,OCX

and- adding right click Context Menu with any exe target for all files (any king you right click).

.NET Classes used :

Registry Codes Will be published as red,
those should be copy to a new reg file, (and saved).

give you ability to register or unRegister a DLL file By Right clicking on it and selecting (register or unregister) from the right click menu.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile]
@=""
"AlwaysShowExt"=""
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00
"TileInfo"="prop:FileVersion;FileDescription"
"InfoTip"="prop:FileDescription;Company;FileVersion;Create;Size"
"NoOpen"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25, 00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00, 65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,31,00,35, 00,34,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell]
@="register"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\register]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\register\command]
@="\"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\regsvr32.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\unRegister]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\unRegister\command]
@="\"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\regsvr32.exe\" \"/u\" \"%1\""

ok. this one is for OCX files
(those are mostly activeX for developers of vb6 (+)
or c++ (vc).

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile]
"NoOpen"=""
@="ActiveX"
"EditFlags"=dword:00000000
"AlwaysShowExt"=""
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000008

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\DefaultIcon]
@="shell32.dll,72"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell]
@="register"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\register]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\register\command]
@="\"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\regsvr32.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\unRegister]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\unRegister\command]
@="\"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\regsvr32.exe\" \"/u\" \"%1\""

now save those files, and run them.
allow (click yes) and click ok

now for our second deal:
I would like to add a command that will open when I right click any file.

what's it is good for?

some software allow you to run diagnostics on files,
the alternative is to use the mouse every time you wish to run the program with your file- open your program path location, also- open your target file path location, and do a dirty drag&drop,
this is messy, sometimes you miss and move/copy files.. shortly- a mess !

notice:
copy the red registry part from here,
and you should edit it by your choice of program.
it could be any program, but I will show you an Example for a Notepad.exe (avilable to any Win)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\MYNAME]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\MYNAME\command]
@="\"EXEPATH\" \"%1\""

OK:
1. change MYNAME to any string (letters only)
for example Open With Notepad

2. change EXEPATH to the path of your exe.
for example
your notepad.exe is placed in:
c:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe
in the registry path's string a slash "\"
became double slash "\\"
so your string should look like that:
c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\notepad.exe

now watch the full reg file example for the
notepad.exe example

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open With Notepad]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open With Notepad\command]
@="\"c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\notepad.exe\" \"%1\""

use your own application by making a copy of this reg file and changing the text of MYNAME and EXEPATH,
each time for something else.

you can delete an unneeded value by running regedit.exe and browsing the path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell
expand this node and watch all those addons you make.
right click on a folder (like Open With Notepad Folder) and select delete, you will stop getting "Open With Notepad" anymore.

that's it.

give it a try, all those are major time savers.

enjoy.
Elad.

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