Add Device Manager To Right-Click of My Computer
Posted by Rob Rogers in 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.
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November 05, 2008 at 10:36 pm, Dj Dumb Bi said:
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.
November 09, 2008 at 1:46 am, Not so said:
This code above does not work at all.
November 09, 2008 at 1:53 am, Not so said:
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
November 09, 2008 at 1:54 am, Not so said:
The above code woks like a champ