Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Changing the "Edit" context-menu entry for JPGs

If you work on a lot of JPGs, it can be annoying to have a context-menu entry that says "Edit" which takes you to the paltry and useless Microsoft Paint.  Why can't it bring up, say, Paint.NET?

There is a program that will let you edit this and any other "default" program for built-in system actions such as the Edit menu entry.  It's called, aptly enough, Default Programs Editor.  There's a few steps to it but it's simple enough.

For this change you have to choose the "File Types Setting" entry, "Context Menu" and then search for ".jpg".  When you get there, you see the various context menu entries and the programs they call.  Reset the "Edit" entry to point to Paint.NET's executable (don't forget the "%1" with quotes to pass the filename as the argument), and you're done.