Comments on: Add an Image in Desktop and Explorer Context Menu in Windows XP

By: Jyotishmoy hacker

Jyotishmoy hacker — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:46:54 +0000

Didnot work

By: amit

amit — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:10:30 +0000

hi vishal...
i tried to do it on my own image but it is giving following error
Loadlibrary failed(path)-The specific module could not be found. plzz help..
also i was wondering whether we could add a photo by modifying shell32.dll through resource hacker
if yes how??????
plzzz relpy

By: --=m9j=--

--=m9j=-- — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:08:57 +0000

guys there is a simple way i found out to register and unregister dll and ocx files.
By the context menu. And create a key which should be look like this- HKCR\dllfile\shell\register this file\command
and subkey of command shuld have this data-
(default) REG_SZ regsvr32 "%1"
i think you have fully understood what should you do to add "Unregister this file".
And if you dont know how to create a context menu handler (like me) then you can add context menu item for all files then try this-
HKCR\*\shell\command
and add data to default subkey. You can use "%1" or "%d" for file path. If you want to add context menu item for folder and drive then here is main key addr-
HKCR\folder and HKCR\directory for folder and HKCR\Drive for drive. There you can easyly change drive icon,too! And great site Vishal thank you. I found here what i was looking for. I hope your next tutorial is about registry that which key is use for what.

By: ZOROO

ZOROO — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:36:20 +0000

Thanks VG But Can I Add this to xp's ISO?

By: VG

VG — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:19:57 +0000

^^ Open the DLL file in Resource Hacker and change the BITMAP.

By: Kamrul

Kamrul — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:26:51 +0000

That's really nice to add image in context menue. But I want to increase or decrease the size of the image. Is it possible sir?

By: VG

VG — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:13:52 +0000

^^ Not possible.

By: Shekkel

Shekkel — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:49:04 +0000

Sir, One doubt, can i get an icon near the properties option in the context menu like in vista and 7.
If so, Please tell me how to do that..

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:07:14 +0000

I like you site alot, and i am messing around with resource hacker too. But i tried this but nothing happened. I did exactly as you said and my bitmap just doesn't appear. I am using winXP but i'm gonna try it on win7 too.

You should make a tutorial about resource hacking mspaint. I almost succeeded but i had no results. You can edit the mspaint.exe file in /system32.

Greetz from Zwolle in the netherlands.

By: Binil

Binil — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:03:38 +0000

Hi Vishal, please try for Windows 7 too...............

I have tried to register in Win 7 but it ends with an error message

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The module "c:\Image.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80020009.

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