[stevec]

I am now 99\% sure that there is something wrong with my Windows XP setup.

I have tried the registry change you detail above on 2 seperate Windows XP installations.

The first works fine when I make the change

The problematic one did not have a key of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell

so I created it and the keys and value underneath this.

After making this change there is no EmEditor at all on my context menu. I tried rebooting my PC without any success.

I think I am just going to have to live with the fact that the context menu doesn’t work with EmEditor on one of my PCs

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UPDATE since writing this

I have managed to get a shortcup working from the context menu.
I have done this by using a freeware 3rd party tool called filemenu tools from Lopesoft.

This allowed me to configure what I have on my Windows context menu and I have added an item for EmEditor and it works fine.

My problems appears to be solved by using this.

Thanks for all your help and patience
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Thanks

Steve

[stevec]

I am sorry to say that performing the steps you detail above still has not solved the issue.

It has the ffect of removing the item from the context menu and then adding in to the context menu again but still when I click on the item in the context menu nothing happens.

I do have other items on my Windows context menu that work OK – for example a free text editor I used before finding emeditor called pspad.

[stevec]

Thanks for your response.

I have tried restarting windows, I have tried running the installer again to “repair the installation”, I have tried to completely uninstall and re-install with various reboot involved and still no joy.

I have went to the configuration option you mention, switched it off, found the item was not in the context menu any more, switched it back on and found the item was now on the context menu but found it still doesn’t work.

I do realise this is probably something to do with a setting I have in Windows XP but is there anything else that can be investigated (windows registry setting, perhaps)?

Thanks

Steve

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