Add Device Manager To Right-Click of My Computer

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From the computer of: shamanstears (719 recipes)
Created: Sep 14, 2006

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For much easier access to the XP's Device Manager, add it to the context menu of My Computer by doing the following:

Open up Notepad and copy the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr]
@="Device Manager"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr\command]
@="mmc.exe %%SYSTEMDRIVE%%\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\devmgmt.msc"

Save the text file and rename it to for example XP_DeviceMgr_MyComputer_Context".

Then merge it into the registry by double clicking it.