Context menu and Vista with UAC disabled
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:39 pm
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:
Notice that the installation path is part of the script.
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"