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Have you ever seen that menu items that appear in the IE context menu, that menu that appears when you right click?

Well, this tutorial will teach you how to add you programs to that menu so when you click on that menu item a program or internet URL will open

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By	Design7 Software
Level	Intermediate
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Compatibility	VB 3.0, VB 4.0 (16-bit), VB 4.0 (32-bit), VB 5.0, VB 6.0, VB Script, ASP (Active Server Pages) , VBA MS Access, VBA MS Excel
Category	Internet/ HTML
World	Visual Basic
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How to add your programs to the Internet Explorer context menu

Have you ever seen that menu items that appear in the IE context menu, that menu that appears when you right click?
Well, this tutorial will teach you how to add you programs to that menu so when you click on that menu item a program or internet URL will open

To run a program from the context menu:

To add a menu item to the IE context menu first run regedit.exe, located in the Windows folder, then create a registry group in the group "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt", then name that new group with the text that you want to appear in the menu item, now you have the menu item.
The next step is to giving the menu item a file to open or run, to do this open the group you have created and double click in the key that is named "(Default)" and change it's value to the program you want to run

To open a URL from the context menu

Do the same steps, only replace the program path with the path of an HTML file, to do this create an HTML file, and put the following code on it, remeber that the context menu cannot point directly into a URL, that is that you can't put the URL directly into the registry value.

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
window.location="http://www.planetsourcecode.com";
//-->
</script>

and put the URL you wan open.

And that's all, now to view your new menu open Internet Explorer and then right click inside the document opened, and now look for your menu, it will be there, now click it and the file or URL that you specified will be opened.

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