Fix 'Open With' Not Working

[straycat19]

Long story short: if you're one of those people who can't make "Open with" work despite trying all these "fixes" online - I pretty much guarantee my method (Option #2) should work for you if Option #1 does not.

Option #1: How to Fix: Open With Not Working (by re-registering the key)

As I mentioned above, the "Open with" option appears in a right-click menu because it is part of a very specific Windows Registry entry. Sometimes that Windows Registry entry goes missing or is corrupt, so the best way to fix this is to re-register the Windows Registry key.

To do so:

1. Click Start, then type in "Notepad" (no quotes). Wait for notepad to appear in the list, then click it.
    
2. Use your mouse to highlight the text below:
   
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
   [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Open with] @="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"
    
3. Right click over top of the highlighted text, then select Copy from the dialogue menu. Go back to the Notepad window, then click Edit -> Paste. The text you copied in Step #2 should now have been pasted inside of Notepad.
    
4. Inside notepad, click File -> Save As, and name the file "Open with fix 1.reg" and save it to your desktop for easy access.
    
5. Double click the "Open with fix 1.reg" file to load it into your Windows Registry. Windows will warn you about adding the file into the registry - you can safely ignore the warning and click OK.
    
6. Go to a video file or text file (not a shortcut of a file), then right click it and you should see the "Open with" dialogue menu.

If that still does not work for you, try Option #2 below.

Option #2: How to Fix: Open With Not Working (using hack)

Sometimes the "Open with" menu option won't work even if the proper "Open with" Windows Registry entry is where it should be. Unfortunately, this happens if your Windows or Windows Registry is corrupt. One way to get around this is to add the "Open with" menu option in a different part of the Windows Registry typically reserved for other Windows Shell commands.

To do so:

1. Click Start, then type in "Notepad" (no quotes). Wait for notepad to appear in the list, then click it.
    
2. Use your mouse to highlight the text below:
   
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
   [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with ...\command] @="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"
    
3. Right click over top of the highlighted text, then select Copy from the dialogue menu. Go back to the Notepad window, then click Edit -> Paste. The text you copied in Step #2 should now have been pasted inside of Notepad.
    
4. Inside notepad, click File -> Save As, and name the file "Open with fix 2.reg" and save it to your desktop for easy access.
    
5. Double click the "Open with fix 2.reg" file to load it into your Windows Registry. Windows will warn you about adding the file into the registry - you can safely ignore the warning and click OK.
    
6. Go to a video file or text file (not a shortcut of a file), then right click it and you should see the "Open with ..." menu option. Left click it, and Windows should now display a window asking you how you would like to open the file.

 

Please note -

Normally, placing your mouse over top of the words "Open with ->" will display a list of options that you can choose from, then you would click whichever program you wanted to open with. In my hack, hovering over top of "Open with ..." does not display a list of options. Instead, you need to click on "Open with ..." and then you will be shown a window which allows you to choose the options.

I hope that helps anyone who previously could not get "Open with" to work!

 

Source

[humble3d]

Good News and, you can also add open with notepad for reading whatever that is...

 

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\*\shell\OPEN WITH NOTEPAD]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\*\shell\OPEN WITH NOTEPAD\command]
@="notepad %1"

[Kalju]

On 27.12.2016 at 11:38 PM, straycat19 said:

Spoiler

 

Long story short: if you're one of those people who can't make "Open with" work despite trying all these "fixes" online - I pretty much guarantee my method (Option #2) should work for you if Option #1 does not.

Option #1: How to Fix: Open With Not Working (by re-registering the key)

As I mentioned above, the "Open with" option appears in a right-click menu because it is part of a very specific Windows Registry entry. Sometimes that Windows Registry entry goes missing or is corrupt, so the best way to fix this is to re-register the Windows Registry key.

To do so:

1. Click Start, then type in "Notepad" (no quotes). Wait for notepad to appear in the list, then click it.
    
2. Use your mouse to highlight the text below:
   
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
   [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Open with] @="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"
    
3. Right click over top of the highlighted text, then select Copy from the dialogue menu. Go back to the Notepad window, then click Edit -> Paste. The text you copied in Step #2 should now have been pasted inside of Notepad.
    
4. Inside notepad, click File -> Save As, and name the file "Open with fix 1.reg" and save it to your desktop for easy access.
    
5. Double click the "Open with fix 1.reg" file to load it into your Windows Registry. Windows will warn you about adding the file into the registry - you can safely ignore the warning and click OK.
    
6. Go to a video file or text file (not a shortcut of a file), then right click it and you should see the "Open with" dialogue menu.

If that still does not work for you, try Option #2 below.

Option #2: How to Fix: Open With Not Working (using hack)

Sometimes the "Open with" menu option won't work even if the proper "Open with" Windows Registry entry is where it should be. Unfortunately, this happens if your Windows or Windows Registry is corrupt. One way to get around this is to add the "Open with" menu option in a different part of the Windows Registry typically reserved for other Windows Shell commands.

To do so:

1. Click Start, then type in "Notepad" (no quotes). Wait for notepad to appear in the list, then click it.
    
2. Use your mouse to highlight the text below:
   
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
   [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with ...\command] @="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"
    
3. Right click over top of the highlighted text, then select Copy from the dialogue menu. Go back to the Notepad window, then click Edit -> Paste. The text you copied in Step #2 should now have been pasted inside of Notepad.
    
4. Inside notepad, click File -> Save As, and name the file "Open with fix 2.reg" and save it to your desktop for easy access.
    
5. Double click the "Open with fix 2.reg" file to load it into your Windows Registry. Windows will warn you about adding the file into the registry - you can safely ignore the warning and click OK.
    
6. Go to a video file or text file (not a shortcut of a file), then right click it and you should see the "Open with ..." menu option. Left click it, and Windows should now display a window asking you how you would like to open the file.

 

Please note -

Normally, placing your mouse over top of the words "Open with ->" will display a list of options that you can choose from, then you would click whichever program you wanted to open with. In my hack, hovering over top of "Open with ..." does not display a list of options. Instead, you need to click on "Open with ..." and then you will be shown a window which allows you to choose the options.

I hope that helps anyone who previously could not get "Open with" to work!

 

Source

 

 

 

Neither of the methods, what you gave, can not work, because both of registry scripts are not correct.

Also not clear how to store. If using ANSI encoding, hardly they will work.

[Petks]

Good info