Add Open with Notepad to the Context Menu in Windows Vista

This page was last updated on September 22, 2010

How many times, you want to open and see the contents of a file not associated with any program. You can use Notepad to view the contents of such a file. It is even better if you add Open with Notepad to the right-click context menu, so you can easily open any file in Notepad. Here is how :

Add Open with Notepad to right-click menu

Download AddOpenWithNotepad.zip to your Desktop. Extract the contents of the Zip file to a folder. Double-click on OpenWithNotepad.reg. Choose Yes when asked. And you are done.

Now if you right click on a file, you will see Open with Notepad context menu option.


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