any freeware program for adding/editing PATH from context menu [closed]

Solution 1:

There may be more elegant solutions possible (this is a little kludgy), but off the top of my head:

• Download this program and extract to c:\wherever

• To automate things a bit, you could add a right-click context menu for folders that points to that program (these instructions are for XP):

  • Start, Run, Regedit (be careful, backup your machine first, etc. etc.)
  • Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Folder\Shell
  • Right click on shell and choose "New Key"
  • Type PathMgr enter
  • Right click on PathMgr and choose "New Key"
  • Type command enter
  • Click on command
  • Double-click on (Default)
  • Type c:\wherever\pathmgr.exe enter

• Then in the future you can either:

  • Right-click on a folder and choose PathMgr and edit away

Or, to add a folder:

• Right-click on the folder you want to add and choose "Copy"
• Right-click on the folder again, choose PathMgr
• Click on the insert button to insert a new path
• Right click on the new path entry you created and choose Modify, via Paste
• Apply, Exit