Add “Open with Notepad” to right-click context menu

Posted on February 26th, 2007 by Jason

Do you use notepad very frequently to open all types of text files? This quick tweak will add “Open with Notepad” to all of your file context menus. Whenever you right click on a file, you will have the option to open it in Notepad.

Copy and paste the code below into Notepad. Then save it as a .reg file and import it by clicking on it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Notepad]
@=”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Notepad\command]
@=”notepad.exe %1″

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  3. Nik on 25 Jun 2008 at 3:40 pm #

    The code you have available for copy/paste is incorrect — you use special “smart quotes”, which don’t seem to work well in notepad or regedit.

    I suggest editing the code to remove the smart quotes, and use a block-quote area to distinguish the lines to be copied & pasted, maybe using a different font style, size, and/or color.

  4. bud on 05 Oct 2009 at 12:27 pm #

    @nik
    hey nik, if u read the guide above properly, such as this part,

    “Copy and paste the code below into Notepad. Then save it as a .reg file and import it by clicking on it.”

    you would have known that the command above is not for be typed directly on the registry editor. because, if you use the .reg file, the command should be written that way and after you click the .reg file, you’ll see in the regedit the quotes are gone.

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