Replace "Paint" as default program for 'Edit' Explorer command

I found this worked flawlessly in changing what Edit did, and you can choose any program you want.

1. Open up the registry editor: Start → regedit

2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command

3. On the right-hand side double-click on Default and change the value to "C:\YOUR_PATH_HERE\APPLICATION.exe" "%1"

This has the advantage of changing it for all files that Windows 7 considers an image.

Source: m-schmidt.eu

These menus are called Context Menus , there is a program called ShellMenuView http://www.nirsoft.net/x64_download_package.html Comes in 32bit or 64bit

it can show these context and classes items, then with a right click, it can put you in Registry editor at thier location , and edit them from there.

When a program opens the regedit and jumps you to a key, At times a registry Jump doesnt land in the correct place. Just select the top item in the registry or close regedit and then it will work.

a Backup of the registry before changing the registry would be good.

I tested what you want to do, and you have to change ALL of the classes for the pictures types you want to change. so Bmps Jpegs etc. I was thinking a faster method might be to search the Whole registry for the MsPaint Program and just do a replace of it one by one carefully. [F3] does a find next in regedit.

a program by the same name, or a repackaging of this program, has had reports of being a trojan. Make sure you get it from the source, or reliable location. And run a scan on it, to be sure?