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Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Posted by Chris Arford (1 messages posted)

Hello, I'm trying to set the 'default action' for double-clicking a file to open the Properties dialog for that file. I've read the page that tells you you can set default actions, but it always wants a path to a program. Is it possible through the registry or a third party program to do this? Thanks in advance.

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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted)
Hi Chris,
Do you have two or more years doing Software Development in Windows? If so, you likely have found a reason for the question.
But if not, why would you want to alter the things that are hard to change? The information in the article works good for shortcuts and folders. For most users a shortcut is the thing to use for almost everything the average user could want to do.
So, I am curious. Why change the options for the task bar? It already has lots of things you can do with it. I just now made a snap shot of the right click task bar stuff. Look at what you can do. What more do you want?
Geek9pm

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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Posted by Ricer46 (23822 messages posted)

We do get some weird requests here. The sensibility of this one was really hard to figure... maybe a practical joke on a "friend?"

On Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 10:09 pm, geek9pm wrote:
>Hi Chris,
> Do you have two or more years doing Software Development in Windows? If so, you
>likely have found a reason for the question.
>
>But if not, why would you want to alter the things that are hard to change? The information
>in the article works good for shortcuts and folders. For most users a shortcut is
>the thing to use for almost everything the average user could want to do.
>So, I am curious. Why change the options for the task bar? It already has lots of
>things you can do with it.
>I just now made a snap shot of the right click task bar stuff. Look at what you can
>do. What more do you want?
> >src="http://geek9pm.com/task_bar.png"
>style="width: 399px; height: 332px;">

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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus'
Friday, December 5, 2008 at 12:07 am
Posted by jaf (3408 messages posted)
You are double clicking a file now to open properties. One right click and one left click.
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