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How to Access Your Programs Fast from Your Right-Click Desktop Menu in Windows

On your keyboard, press WinButton + R to open the Run window

Once opened, type Regedit.exe into the textbox and click OK

Window displaying a command prompt for executing "Regedit.exe" in a Windows operating system.

A new window will open, click on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

Now Search for the path: Directory/Background/shell

Now with shell selected, right-click on the shell and select (Create>Key)

Once you clicked this, give the key the program name, e.g. Skype

Now double-click Skype (the name you gave) and create a new key again

See step 5 for more information.

Now give the new key the name Command.

See step 6 for giving name to the keys.

Select the Command key and double-click the line on the right list

On the new window, write in the program path and click OK

Write in the .exe path of the program as shown in image between "......"

Settings window for a system registry editor.

After this step you're done!  Now you can have the program in the desktop right-click menu!

Menu options in Greek including 'Skype' and other applications.

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