Custom context menu items not showing


  1. jarmade
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Custom context menu items not showing


    This is a fresh install of windows 7, none of the custom menu items are appearing on the right click menu, .e.g. usually when I right click an image I get "Edit with gimp", but its not appearing.

    I checked the registry to see if the keys are there, and they are, i even added some custom ones (upload to web) but none are showing up! (see snapshot)



    I tried other file types too (txt, jpg), and they will not work either.

    system: Window 7 Ultimate x64 (SP1)
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  3. Bongo
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    Win 7 Pro x64 / Win 10 Pro
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    Welcome to the Seven Forums

    What version of gimp are you using?

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  4. Kaktussoft
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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    jarmade said:
    This is a fresh install of windows 7, none of the custom menu items are appearing on the right click menu, .e.g. usually when I right click an image I get "Edit with gimp", but its not appearing.

    I checked the registry to see if the keys are there, and they are, i even added some custom ones (upload to web) but none are showing up! (see snapshot)



    I tried other file types too (txt, jpg), and they will not work either.

    system: Window 7 Ultimate x64 (SP1)
    Did you change in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes ?
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  6. jarmade
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    Figured it out, it was because i set my default image viewer for png files to open with XnView, so the registry keys needed to be under "XnViewMP.png", rather than "pngfile"
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  7. Bongo
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    Good to hear you got it figured out, that was going to be my next question if you installed some kind of other photo viewing or editing software.

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