{"id":37,"date":"2003-08-27T12:46:04","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T16:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/08\/27\/how-to-add-context-menu-items-in-win"},"modified":"2003-08-27T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2003-08-27T16:46:04","slug":"how-to-add-context-menu-items-in-windows-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/08\/27\/how-to-add-context-menu-items-in-windows-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add Context Menu Items in Windows 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a57'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A while back I was looking for a good basic free HTML editor for Windows, to install for a Berkmaniac.  I wanted it to do syntax coloring and browser previewing, and to provide some facilities for automating coding.  I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chami.com\/html-kit\/\">HTML-Kit<\/a>, which is really quite nice.  It&#8217;s free as in beer, but seems clean and highly functional.  It&#8217;s pleasant to look at, and can insert boilerplate table code and such.  There are add-ons which you can buy once you&#8217;re hooked on the product, but the free version is definitely fine for the basics.<\/p>\n<p>So the user I installed this for wants to be able to right-click on HTML files and have the context menu say &#8220;Edit with HTML-Kit&#8221;.  Here&#8217;s how you do that in Windows 2000.<\/p>\n<p>* Open Windows Explorer or &#8220;My Computer&#8221;.<br \/>\n* Go to Tools -&gt; Folder Options -&gt; File Types.<br \/>\n* Select HTML, or whatever other file type you have in mind.<br \/>\n* Click &#8220;Advanced&#8221;.  You will now see a window called &#8220;Edit File Type&#8221;.<br \/>\n* There will be some Actions listed.  You want to add a new one, so click &#8220;New&#8230;&#8221;.<br \/>\n* Now you can choose a name for the action, such as &#8220;Edit with HTML-Kit&#8221; or whatever else you want the context menu to say.  And you choose which program you want to use.  Browse through to the executable you want (presumably somewhere in your &#8220;Program Files&#8221; directory).<\/p>\n<p>HTML-Kit is actually a bad choice of an example program, since it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvu.bornesko.dk\/mah\/md3\/int1\/week39\/quick_guide.asp\">already knows<\/a> how to add context menu stuff itself, in its preferences section.  But this should work for other programs in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>One problem about this here is that the normal user security settings for win2k don&#8217;t allow users to modify this sort of thing, which is a shame.  A regular user can&#8217;t even modify her default application to view a file!!  So the next step is probably to figure out how to loosen up the registry so that people here can set their own settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was looking for a good basic free HTML editor for Windows, to install for a Berkmaniac. I wanted it to do syntax coloring and browser previewing, and to provide some facilities for automating coding. I came across HTML-Kit, which is really quite nice. It&#8217;s free as in beer, but seems clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}