URL Files - Add "Open with" to Context Menu

Hello Brink,

Thank you very much for all of your great tutorials for using and tweaking Windows 7.

I've used your tweak URL-add_Open_with.reg but it didn't worked as happened with Angel213. I'm using Firefox as default browser, but I also use Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. I have investigated the problem and found a solution that works for me. I've changed the reg file from

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\Open With]
@="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"

to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IE.AssocFile.URL\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\Open With]
@="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"

If you consider this a general solution, please feel free to publish this in your tutorials.

I'm using Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bits) SP1 with Region: Portugal

I, too, am having the same problem. I have two entries for ContextMenuHandlers in the registry as I have shown in the attached image. What can I do to add Open With in the context menu for .URL shortcuts?

Thank you.

I restarted my Windows 7 Home 64-bit computer but I still don't see the Open With option in the context menu for internet shortcut (URL) icons on my desktop. Also, the URL icons are blank even though my default browser is Firefox. I have changed my default browser a few times in the last couple of years, and for sometime now the URL icons turned blank. I started looking around on this forum to see if I can find a way to get the URL icon back and landed on this thread after I saw that I have lost the Open With option in my context menu for URL icons as well.

I merged the .reg file for the url option to restore the default association, but still no luck.

Yes, I do have "Open with" in the context menu for other files such as .txt and .htm.