Changing right-click links

I've been meaning to ask this (literally) for years but always got lost on a tangent. How do I change the right-click options? For example, I want to change the program that launches when I right click a JPeG and select edit. I thought there was an easier way to do this (besides hacking the registry). I'm sure I did it when I used XP (I know, a zillion years ago). I'm running Win 7 Pro 64 bit and hope to stick with it for a long time yet. Thanx.

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs

For advanced USER ONLY(lol probably )

I discovered a program called, Types

http://ystr.github.io/types/ <-- Home/Download page.
http://ystr.github.io/types/new.rss <-- The News-feed is the changelog!
Requires .NET Framework v2 or newer(it seems ).
lol, there are a hand full of "Localization" files available, English is the default!

How it WORKS:
you can right-click on any individual FILE to bring up the "context-menu" to edit that file types associations!
or you can run Types from the menu and it will bring up a general LIST of all of the systems "FILE TYPE ASSOCIATIONS"
and you can even search from there to find the one you are looking for lol

been using it for a few years now..

Made for Windows 7 and XP (.Net framework 2.0 required).
May or may not work in Windows 8 and 10.

Megahertz07 said:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs

Doesn't that just change which program OPENs the file? I want to change the EDIT link.

MikeyChris said:

Doesn't that just change which program OPENs the file? I want to change the EDIT link.

I posted the link to Types so grab it, as it allows full editing of the file type associations..
by searching for or right clicking on the any file of that type you want to edit and choosing
"Edit file type"

lehnerus2000 said:

It was easier in XP, because it had a built-in tool for adding Context Menu entries.

YUP! that was one of Windows most important FEATURES..
BUT anyway that is in the past..

the program "TYPES" IS THE NOW!
give it a try!,
its G.R.E.A.T.

Like I use MS paint and well as.. Paint.NET
so I just added a custom context-menu entry for .jpeg ... I will do the other two mains
later... that is .png and .gif..

ooh heck I might as well do it right now... SINCE the program makes file type editing a BREEZE
OK DONE!

Melchior said:

For advanced USER ONLY(lol probably )

I discovered a program called, Types ...

How it WORKS:
you can right-click on any individual FILE to bring up the "context-menu" to edit that file types associations!
or you can run Types from the menu and it will bring up a general LIST of all of the systems "FILE TYPE ASSOCIATIONS" and you can even search from there to find the one you are looking for lol

Thanx for the link and the info. However, I must be doing something wrong or my system is messed up. I can launch the proggy OK, but when I change stuff it doesn't seem to do anything. Perhaps there is more to this than I am seeing. So when I right click a file, all I see is the context menu I had originally. If I understand your directions, I should see a link to TYPES, right? Also, the desktop icon is a link to the web not to the exe file on my computer. Launching the exe results in the same thing however, a window opens showing a zillion file extensions. Right-clicking the JPEG type, I get a dialog box with four tabs (Class, ACTIONS, ICON & OTHER). My first issue is with CLASS - is it jpegfile, .jpg, .jpeg - or all of them, or what? I'm not a programmer, but I have been playing with computers since DOS 3 and written batch files, etc. I feel I should be able to do this Please help!