Context menu and Vista with UAC disabled

[Thomas Linder Puls]

If you have disabled UAC (User Access Control) in Vista TextPad does not appear in the shell/explorer context menu.

The reason seems to be that Vista does not use HKEY_CURRENT_USER overlays when UAC is disabled.

You can get TextPad back in the context menu by registering it in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE instead. Save this text in a file with extension .reg and run it:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\TextPad]
@="{ABECE8A0-FF84-4efb-82AE-9B3181CE097D}"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ABECE8A0-FF84-4efb-82AE-9B3181CE097D}]
@="TextPad"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ABECE8A0-FF84-4efb-82AE-9B3181CE097D}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files\\TextPad 5\\System\\shellext32.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

Notice that the installation path is part of the script.

[gayito]

Thanks a lot!!!

Your post was the only one that worked.

Thanks again!!!

Gabriel.

[Noni]

I used your code and it's great.

Tanhk a lot too...

Best regards,

Noni

ps. Gabriel tks again...

[ManChicken]

Ugh, finally!

Thank you for figuring this out. It has been annoying the @*& out of me for months.