Open With is missing

Hi All,

I have a customer whose Right Click context menu does nto
have "open With". There are TONS of Google hits on this that
tells you to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Op enwith]@=�{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}�

Problem: That is already the case.

Anyone have a fix for this?

Many thanks,
-T

On 03/16/2018 03:34 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

I have a customer whose Right Click context menu does nto
have "open With".Â* There are TONS of Google hits on this that
tells you to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Op enwith]@=�{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}�


Problem:Â* That is already the case.

Anyone have a fix for this?

Many thanks,
-T


Update: it is there with common files, like txt files, but missing
with pdf, dwg, igs, etc..

I have been going into setting and doing it by extension, but what
a pain in the ass.

On 03/16/2018 03:34 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

I have a customer whose Right Click context menu does nto
have "open With".Â* There are TONS of Google hits on this that
tells you to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Op enwith]@=�{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}�


Problem:Â* That is already the case.

Anyone have a fix for this?

Many thanks,
-T

Followup:

I found that if I go into the registry and rename the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
file extension, the next time I open the extension, the issue is
corrected.

I won't even speculate.

On 03/16/2018 03:43 PM, T wrote:
On 03/16/2018 03:34 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

I have a customer whose Right Click context menu does nto
have "open With".Â* There are TONS of Google hits on this that
tells you to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Op enwith]@=�{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}�


Problem:Â* That is already the case.

Anyone have a fix for this?

Many thanks,
-T


Update: it is there with common files, like txt files, but missing
with pdf, dwg, igs, etc..

I have been going into setting and doing it by extension, but what
a pain in the ass.


This is still a pain in the ass as the customer has two different
DWG viewers that both have their pluses and minuses. He can't
open the non-default one with Open With as it is missing

On 03/16/2018 07:20 PM, T wrote:
On 03/16/2018 03:34 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

I have a customer whose Right Click context menu does nto
have "open With".Â* There are TONS of Google hits on this that
tells you to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Op enwith]@=�{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}�


Problem:Â* That is already the case.

Anyone have a fix for this?

Many thanks,
-T

Followup:

I found that if I go into the registry and rename the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
file extension, the next time I open the extension, the issue is
corrected.

I won't even speculate.

What you probably did is remove windows knowledge of what to do with
that particular extension. Now it has no recourse but to present you
with an "open with".

On 03/16/2018 05:18 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 03/16/2018 07:20 PM, T wrote:
On 03/16/2018 03:34 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

I have a customer whose Right Click context menu does nto
have "open With".Â* There are TONS of Google hits on this that
tells you to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Op enwith]@=�{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}�


Problem:Â* That is already the case.

Anyone have a fix for this?

Many thanks,
-T

Followup:

I found that if I go into the registry and rename the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
file extension, the next time I open the extension, the issue is
corrected.

I won't even speculate.

What you probably did is remove windows knowledge of what to do with
that particular extension.Â*Â* Now it has no recourse but to present you
with an "open with".



No, there is only "open". And [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dwg exists.
The problem is that there is no "open with", only "open" with
..dwg and .pdf.

On 2018-03-16 21:36, T wrote:

On 03/16/2018 05:18 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 03/16/2018 07:20 PM, T wrote:
On 03/16/2018 03:34 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

I have a customer whose Right Click context menu does nto
have "open With". There are TONS of Google hits on this that
tells you to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Op enwith]@=�{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}�

Problem: That is already the case.
Anyone have a fix for this?
Many thanks,
-T

Followup:

I found that if I go into the registry and rename the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
file extension, the next time I open the extension, the issue is
corrected.

I won't even speculate.

What you probably did is remove windows knowledge of what to do with
that particular extension. Now it has no recourse but to present you
with an "open with".

No, there is only "open". And [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dwg exists.
The problem is that there is no "open with", only "open" with
dwg and pdf.

What if you shift-right-click? I'd have to do some research, but it
would help me if mine was broken as well, hard to see if something fixes
it when it's working correctly. Is this a user-limited thing? IE if you
log as Administrator, does it work?

Regards,

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On 03/16/2018 08:55 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2018-03-16 21:36, T wrote:

What if you shift-right-click?

Second thing I tried. Tears.

"Big Al" wrote

| [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Op enwith]@="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"
|

| What you probably did is remove windows knowledge of what to do with
| that particular extension. Now it has no recourse but to present you
| with an "open with".
|
This works on older systems. I haven't tried it on 10:

-----------------------------------------
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\openas
default value: "Open With..."

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Zopenas\command
%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1
-----------------------------------------

What that's doing is using rundll to directly call the function
in shell32.dll. For those who don't know, rundll32.exe is a
special program that accepts numerous commandline
parameters to perform various system functions by directly
calling methods in system DLLs. More simply, you tell rundll
a system library and a function, and it calls that function.
It's not useful to call any old function, but Microsoft
have designed a number of them for just this purpose.

For anyone who's curious, there are lists online of
what can be done with rundll.

By putting the command under the * key it works for all
files, which is nice if you want to do something like open
a JPG in a hex editor instead of the default image viewer.

I have the same CLSID as listed above 09799....
It points to a COM object from shell32. My sample is
just a different way to do it. If you have the facility
to check exported functions in shell32.dll you should find
that OpenAs_RunDLL is among them. If so, the method
I've provided should work fine.

On 03/17/2018 05:30 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Big Al" wrote

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\openas

Hmmmmm. I don't have this key.

On 03/17/2018 05:30 AM, Mayayana wrote:
This works on older systems. I haven't tried it on 10:

-----------------------------------------
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\openas
default value: "Open With..."

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Zopenas\command
%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1
-----------------------------------------

Hi Mayayana,

Would you mind exporting yours to a .reg filed and
pasting it back here?


Many thanks,
-T