Adding your favorite app to context menu

this is a simple productivity tip to ease accessing/invoking your favorite application at right click of context menu in a Windows shell.

In this example I am adding a context menu (menu that appears when you right click on any file in Windows) called “Edit with Notepad2”

Syntax:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell] (this hive should be already existing, add JIC if it's missing)

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell<Context menu name>]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell<Context menu name>command]
@="<path to application you want to invoke> "%1""

Example:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shellEdit with Notepad2]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shellEdit with Notepad2command]
@=""C:\Tools\Bin\Notepad2.exe" "%1""

To ease importing these keys here Edit_With_Notepad2_Context_Menu_Integration is a Win Reg file.
Rename it to .reg and simply double click and press OK.

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