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for questions related to a custom command integrated into the Windows explorer context menu

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A context menu is a menu in a graphical user interface that appears upon user interaction, such as a right mouse click or middle click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application. Usually the available choices are actions related to the selected object.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_menu

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Open folder in VS Code from Windows Explorer

While installing the VS Code, we get an option to tick for Open with Code. I gave the tick mark for only files but not for folders. So how to turn it on after installation? When I'm opening a file: When I'm opening a folder : I want the Open with…
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Adding a "fake drive" to Windows Explorer

An application I use, Mozy Backup, adds its own "drive" to Windows Explorer that I can browse and view all the files I've backed up. Windows knows it's not a physical drive - it's shows up under "Other" if my drive list is divided by type. How is a…
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how can I get the path of a context menu selection?

I have a custom entry on the Internet Explorer's context menu. I would like to do something with the selected item, for example, run a program that receives that selection as ARGV[1]. For example, if I right click on a file named whatever.zip that…
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How do I retrieve / iterate Win11 IExplorerCommand context menu items?

About five years back, I wrote a program for a customer which effectively re-created the Windows Explorer context menu inside the program -- if they clicked on the object representing their data file, it showed the context menu they'd see in…
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Add an item to Windows Explorer context menu through an installer

For educational purposes, I'm developing a simple App in WPF using C#. The App will be distributed without using the Install Shield Wizard, especially when it is launched for the first time it must be able to configure the system registers for an…
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Windows 10/11 Explorer - How to generate text on explorer's background

I want to print some information in the background or title or columns of certain or all folders. For example, when I enter the folder of a .git project, I want to be able to show which branch is active somewhere in the explorer window with…
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How to use the Open With feature with Python?

I'm currently working with a python script that has the following code. It opens a file that has JSON text and determines a value from that. browseFiles() def browseFiles(): global fileName fileName = filedialog.askopenfilename(title = "Select a…
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Add "Open with eclipse" in the windows explorer file submenu

Sometimes you would like to open a file directly inside eclipse without having it included in any eclipse project. On those cases it would be very handy to have the option Open with eclipse in the Windows explorer. Please, do not misunderstand me,…
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