Windows 10: Program not showing up in 'Open With' context menu

I tried this a few months ago and failed after a lot of tweaking in the regedit. Probably this guide Remove Programs from Open with Context Menu in Windows and some other where it said how to add. I gave up.

Now I have a new computer with a fresh Windows 10, and is at it again. But this time I got surprised, as everything was already as it should in regedit. It was squeaky clean in regedit with only the three apps I wanted to show up in the menu.

The problem: It doesn't show up. Not in the "Right Click > Context Menu > Open With"-list.
But (and here's the interesting part and perhaps why no-one seems to have succeeded adding to the list with the regedit method) it does show up in the open button under the Home ribbon-menu on top.

See pictures.


Regedit, path: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.mp4\OpenWith List



MPC-HC, VLC, and DeoVR are all there.


Context menu (I've uninstalled Windows Media Player and Microsoft Photos):



DeoVR isn't there, as it should be.


Ribbon menu:



There DeoVR are!



It's quite confusing, as it looks like they are identical, like both menus are taking information from the same sources. With both having the store-link and the choose another app option. When WMP and photos was installed they came up on both menus as well. It's almost like it's a bug in Windows 10.


Do you have any clue how to fix this?


On Windows 10 Home 20H2 (OS Build 19042.630), but I just updated, plus had the same issue on another PC about 2 months ago with another version.

:)

 

Custom context menu entries

So, just throwing this out there, in case somone knows.

I have added a custom context menu entry for the program rightload, since by default the menu is broken in vistax64.

It works pefect with single files, but when I select mutiple files and try to open, I get mutiple instances of the program (which makes sense), here is my entry:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Rightload\Rightload.exe --server=1 --autostart %1

So the %1 passes the filename to the program, and when I select multiple files it is just opening multiple instances of rightload each with a different file.

What I'd like to do is be able to pass a list of the files selected to the program. Since I know it is capable of uploading multiple files from the context menu, all in one instance.

So, is there something I can pass besides %1 that will do this? I have looked around and can't seem to find an answer anywhere... *Frown

 

"Open With" context Menu slow to load


Hi all,

so when i right click on the file and point to the "open with" menu, it should show the list of programs that the file could be opened. Every time after a restart the "open with" menu would take like 3 seconds to load, and after that first load, it would show the list right away. This not only happens when i restart my pc, but also when I haven't opened a file with the "open with" menu for like 1 or 2 hours and it will lag for like 3 seconds again for it to show the list of programs that it could be opened with.

I've already tried programs like Autoruns, ShellExView and disabling those context menu would now help either. Also, I deleted the unnecessary programs from the open with list through the registry already and it still doesn't help.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks.

 

Change target of "Edit" command in context menus

@ Oily, thanks but that's not what I'm trying to do here. I wanted the "Edit" context menu command to open a different program to what the file is usually associated with; the Default Programs dialog doesn't allow that.