Re: Customize context menu within a ZIP folder

Posted: 08-06-2003, 02:23 PM

Chris Lanier

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in Windows XP "Open With..." should already be there.
If it's not try holding down shift and then do the right click.

"Michael Cross" <michael.cross@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hi NG,
>
> I hope this is the right NG for my topic.
>
> Is there a way to customize the context menu within a Win XP ZIP
> folder? I mean the context menu that becomes visible if you right
> click on a file within a ZIP folder. I would like to add a new entry
> to this menu like 'open with...' or 'Open with [PROGRAM]'.
>
> Is there a way to reach this?
>
> Any help is greatle appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michael

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Re: Customize context menu within a ZIP folder

Posted: 08-06-2003, 02:35 PM

Not in a zip file.

"Chris Lanier" <cal2002a@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> in Windows XP "Open With..." should already be there.
> If it's not try holding down shift and then do the right click.
>
> "Michael Cross" <michael.cross@gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:th22jvcfndi01ajn0ubgbn2j9vft36900o@4ax.com...
> > Hi NG,
> >
> > I hope this is the right NG for my topic.
> >
> > Is there a way to customize the context menu within a Win XP ZIP
> > folder? I mean the context menu that becomes visible if you right
> > click on a file within a ZIP folder. I would like to add a new entry
> > to this menu like 'open with...' or 'Open with [PROGRAM]'.
> >
> > Is there a way to reach this?
> >
> > Any help is greatle appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Michael
>
>

Michael Cross

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Re: Customize context menu within a ZIP folder

Posted: 08-06-2003, 02:43 PM

On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:23:26 GMT, "Chris Lanier"
<cal2002a@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote:

>in Windows XP "Open With..." should already be there.
>If it's not try holding down shift and then do the right click.

No, the context menu shows only the entries Open, Copy, Delete, Cut
and Properties even if I hold the shift key down when I perform the
right click.

I use the german version of Windows XP Professional with SP 1 and the
build in Zip program of the OS.

Is there another way to customize the menu?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Michael

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Re: Customize context menu within a ZIP folder

Posted: 08-08-2003, 04:24 PM

"Michael Cross" <michael.cross@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to customize the context menu within a Win XP ZIP
> folder? I mean the context menu that becomes visible if you right
> click on a file within a ZIP folder. I would like to add a new entry
> to this menu like 'open with...' or 'Open with [PROGRAM]'.

In case you are not aware of this: Customizing Context Menu

http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html

You can extract the zipped files in your first tier customized ( [Unzip])
context menu. Then, you create a second tier ([Open with...] and others)
context menu for your now unzipped files. If you are expecting only a
single file in the folder most of the time, you may perhaps link the two and
present as one extra option item in a single, one tier customized context
menu, invoked by Rt. clicking the zipped folder itself.

This should be read as a direction pointer, for I have not done this myself.

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Bee

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Re: Customize context menu within a ZIP folder

Posted: 08-08-2003, 04:45 PM

"Bee" <in.my.bonnet@Shangri-La.com> wrote in message
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> In case you are not aware of this: Customizing Context Menu
>
> http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html
>
> You can extract the zipped files in your first tier customized ( [Unzip])
> context menu. Then, you create a second tier ([Open with...] and others)
> context menu for your now unzipped files.

Sorry, not 'unzipped' files; should be 'extracted' files.

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Bee
[I have found my Shangri-La, at the moment, in ntlworld.]

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