Since this functionality is not present in the 0.9 installer I created a small program to appease the users who want to use the context menus.

Updated 04-17-2006
Should fix the problem people were having with foobar becoming the standard action. Thanks galiyosha.

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For lazy people like me much more comfortable than editing the registry manually or with a reg-file, especially if you're moving the foobar2000-folder to another place sometimes.

Thank you very much


//edit: a button "browse for foobar2000.exe" would be very nice.

Thank you. I will check it out. I, however, have already edited the registry manually...

Hi, thanks ZhuGeLiang. I've just got one problem: the new context menu entry 'Play in foobar2000' is now the standard option (the one in bold at the top of the list), and I can't open folders by double clicking them any more! Any folder I double click tries to be played in foobar now. How can I keep the new comands, but set have the 'Open' option back to being standard action when I double click a folder? Appreciate any help...

Thanks 王葛亮

Thanks for this.

this would be great to have, but i wanna know if anyone else is having the same problem opening up folders and having them attempt to play in foobar

What OS/service pack/language are you using? Does using the remove button fix it?

Thank you for coding this for us -- it works perfectly for me so far.

The problem with another action becoming the default one happens (at least on my Windows XP SP2 machine) when the default value of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell is either not set or set to any other action (apart from open of course). Initially, it is set to "none". (I mean a string "none", not unset. Totally unintuitive like anything else in the registry...)

So a reg file like the one attached should fix the problem (hopefully):

ZhuGeLiang, maybe it could be implemented in your utility as an optional fix for people that got things messed up?

I've uploaded a fixed version.

Thanks, this is great.