My Context Menu Tweaks for Windows 7

polycue said:

Found a functioning link for REGPAD alpha 0.2.0 download:

http://www.herbystweaks.net/files/RegPad.zip

That's the one - it is a hard link to track down.

My Screen shot is RegPad 0.2.0 that is why I was gonna post it. Thanks for the assist.

Mr GRiM said:

Thanks polycue :)

Yah, what he said too.

SIW2 said:

Hi John and polycue,

Those .reg files were made by Vishal Gupta.

You might see if merging these two NULL.reg files will correct those invalid entries :

NULLAdd Search option.reg

NULLSearch.reg

I know *what* is causing the problem, I just wanted the OP to realize that a couple were FUBARd.

BTW, I used Nir Sofer's ZipInstaller: Install Windows applications from ZIP file to install it to Program Files (x86) on 64bit OSs and Program Files on 32bit OSs.

So, here is the .reg file to not only change the default association of .reg files from the default of having reg-editor install them to opening in RegPad - provides an extra layer of security for those without UAC on....

I have 2 versions - 32bit for folks running 32bit OSs ***and*** 64bit OSs who install RegPad to Program Files, and 64bit, for folks who install it to Program Files (X86).

32bit: RegPad entries 32bit.reg

64bit: RegPad entries 64bit.reg

Edit should become the default action when you double click the item, therefore it should be still in your context menu - I assume that you rebooted to make sure all is well?

Also, did you use ZipInstaller to install RegPad to the appropriate rectory?

lol.

If you open RegPad and look at the entries that you merged, it needs RegPad to be *installed* to Program Files. If you do not install it, you need to edit the paths to reflect where you have it extracted.

Personally, I'd use ZipInstaller b/c that puts it in the Program Files section, *and* it give it a nice little uninstaller.

Yes, I had extracted the program to another drive and that may be part of the problem. I'll copy the directory over to the default location and reboot to see if that corrects the issue.

Rebooted but still the same problem. Interesting that the problem only manifest itself in only the user account where I did the merge. The other user accounts had all changed properly.

While attempting to debug the problem I reset the default association of .reg to regedit. Now I am unable to change the default association for this file type within this user account. The other user accounts are all OK.

Hmmm. Sounds like a permission thing. Now when you try to merge the reg items it doesn't allow you to merge them?

Have you rebooted since resetting the .reg entries?

Have you performed any other tweaks using other .reg entries and such on this account already?

How about the other accounts?