Is there a way to integrate portable application in windows explorer context menu? For example, the installed version of notepad++ creates "Edit with notepad++" in but the portable version doesn't do this. But i am not asking only for notepad++ but for any application that i want to integrate in the context menu.
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I was a little bit interested in this question as well, so I looked up how to add those sort of context menu options. I ran across this very helpful article that has all the info on how to add things to the menu. I assume you can edit the launcher.ini file in the application of your choice to write the appropriate registry options. Hope this helps.
Edit: This will only work for when the program is actually running, and won't have any effect if only the platform is running.
Firstly great thanks for this really helpful article. Personally I have searched for a longer time at some appropriate articles regarding the usage of NSIS? Can you suggest me some useful articles in this direction?
There is quickly add context shell " Edit with notepad++ " way.You can check that.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Explo...
If you right-click on a text file and select "open with", it will give you a list of installed programs. If you pick "more options", you can go to your portable app directory and pick "Notepad++ portable". The next time you right-click on the file, go to "open with" and then "choose default file" and select Notepad++.
How to associate file icons with portable application? For example, 7-zip portable has option to integrate itself in context menu but the files with .zip extension doesn't have the same icon as 7-ZipPortable.exe