{"id":19301,"date":"2020-05-07T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=19301"},"modified":"2020-05-07T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:46:08","slug":"how-to-fix-open-with-missing-from-the-right-click-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-fix-open-with-missing-from-the-right-click-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix &#8220;Open with&#8221; Missing From the Right-click Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\">How to Fix &#8220;Open with&#8221; Missing From the Right-click Menu<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you want to open a file with a program other than the default, you can right-click on the file and choose &#8220;Open with&#8221;. But we know some Windows 10 users do not see this option.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you don&#8217;t see &#8220;Open with&#8221; on your right-click menu when you click on a file that requires a program to open it, we&#8217;re going to help you put Open with&#8221; back on your Windows 10 right-click menu. This tip requires modifying the registry. But don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ve done the work for you. All you have to do is download the zip file, unzip it, and double-click on &#8220;Restore_Open_With.reg&#8221; to modify the registry and put &#8220;Open with&#8221; on your right-click menu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Note: We recommend you create a restore point any time you modify or add to your Windows registry.\u00a0 To learn how to create a restore point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/create-a-system-restore-shortcut-with-one-click-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see this page<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After you&#8217;ve created a system restore point, <a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/downloads\/public\/Restore_Open_With.zip\"><strong><u>download this zip file<\/u><\/strong><\/a> from our site. After you&#8217;ve downloaded it, unzip it then double-click on &#8220;Restore_Open_With.reg&#8221;.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll get 2 warnings &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to click Yes and Run to override them.\u00a0 Then<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> you&#8217;ll get a warning about modifying the registry&#8230; like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/regyes2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows 10 tips\" width=\"567\" height=\"205\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You need to click yes to continue.\u00a0 When you continue, you&#8217;ll get a message that the keys and values in the reg file were successfully added to the registry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If all went well you will have &#8220;Open with&#8221; on your right-click menu whenever you right-click a file that requires a program or an app to open it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you still don&#8217;t see &#8220;Open with&#8221; try restarting your computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/openwith.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Fix &#8220;Open with&#8221; Missing From the Right-click Menu If you want to open a file with a program other than the default, you can right-click on the file and choose &#8220;Open with&#8221;. But we know some Windows 10 users do not see this option. If you don&#8217;t see &#8220;Open with&#8221; on your right-click menu\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-fix-open-with-missing-from-the-right-click-menu\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2103,1964,1700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19302,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301\/revisions\/19302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}