{"id":218,"date":"2006-08-21T23:32:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/?p=218"},"modified":"2006-08-21T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T21:32:09","slug":"open-with-notepad-for-all-file-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Open with Notepad&#8221; for all file types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that this isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winguides.com\/registry\/display.php\/40\/\">well<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/whaggard\/archive\/2005\/04\/11\/399905.aspx\">known<\/a>, but I want a reminder in my own weblog&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In order to add an &#8220;Open with Notepad&#8221; (or the editor\/whatever of your choice) context menu entry under Windows98\/2000 for all file types, you&#8217;ve got to modify the registry like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the registry key &#8220;HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\*\\&#8221; find the key &#8220;shell&#8221; or create it if it&#8217;s not there yet.<\/li>\n<li>In &#8220;shell&#8221; create a new key and call it &#8220;openwnotepad&#8221; or alike. Change its &#8220;Default&#8221;-string&#8217;s value to &#8220;Open with Notepad&#8221;. This text will be your context menu text.<\/li>\n<li>In &#8220;openwnotepad&#8221; create a new key, which you have to call &#8220;command&#8221;. Change its &#8220;Default&#8221;-string&#8217;s value to &#8220;notepad.exe %1&#8221;. Instead of notepad.exe you can point to the editor of your choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Warning<\/strong> and <strong>disclaimer<\/strong>: Meddling with the windows registry can cause a serious mess-up of your system. Doing so and\/or using the information provided here is done at your <strong>own risk<\/strong> entirely. Don&#8217;t blame me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that this isn&#8217;t well&#8211;known, but I want a reminder in my own weblog&#8230; In order to add an &#8220;Open with Notepad&#8221; (or the editor\/whatever of your choice) context menu entry under Windows98\/2000 for all file types, you&#8217;ve got to modify the registry like this: In the registry key &#8220;HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\*\\&#8221; find the key &#8220;shell&#8221; or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arf1.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}