Add Device Manager To Right-Click of My Computer

Contributor Icon Contributed by Rob Rogers  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows networking  

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.

 

4 Comments -


  1. Dj Dumb Bi said on November 5, 2008

    This code above does not work at all. Windows then says: This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Ooptions control panel.

  2. Not so said on November 9, 2008

    This code above does not work at all.

  3. Not so said on November 9, 2008

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}shellDevices]
    @=hex(2):44,00,65,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,20,00,4d,00,61,00,6e,00,61,00,67,
    00,65,00,72,00,00,00
    “SuppressionPolicy”=dword:4000003c

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}shellDevicescommand]
    @=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,
    00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,6d,00,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,
    65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,
    00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,
    32,00,5c,00,64,00,65,00,76,00,6d,00,67,00,6d,00,74,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,63,
    00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,00,00

  4. Not so said on November 9, 2008

    The above code woks like a champ

 

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