How To Add Open With Paint Option To The Windows 7 Context Menu

September 26th, 2009 | Tags:

Many a time, we use the default Windows Paint program for basic image editing. It’s non secret that the Paint program is not packed with stunning features available in other free Paint programs, it is still useful for basic editing.

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With default Windows settings, we need to right-click on the image file and then chose the Paint program in Open with list. To quickly edit a JPEG, PNG or other image file, you can easily open an image file with Paint with this trick.

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How to add Open with Paint option to the context menu:

1. Download the Paint.rar file from here.

2. Extract the RAR file to desktop to see Add open with Paint and Remove open with Paint registry files.

open with paint rar file

3. Double-click on the Add open with Paint registry file to add the option to the context menu and use the Remove file to revert to the default.

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4. That’s it.

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So if you are planning to purchase a 64-bit Windows 7 copy and would like to know if your system is ready for the same or not, you can use the tiny BITS tool. BITS is a portable tool for Windows 7, Vista and XP to know your system’s compatibility with 64-bit Windows.

Check 64 Bit Compatibility

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Weather Center is an awesome application to view the current weather conditions in a jiffy. The tool displays the current temperature in the system tray area and is fully customizable.

Weather Center in System tray

Upon running the tool for the first time, you will be given an opportunity to to setup the tool by entering your current location. Once done, you can view the current temperature in system tray area and also can view addition information such as dew point, sun rise time, sun set time, humidity and more by opening Weather Center window.

Weather Center

Key features:

  • Up-to-date weather information
  • Weather alert options
  • Weather data format

Win7LogoRafael Rivera and Zheng have released a handy application for Windows 7 called Geosense, a Windows Sensor, that provides the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 with accurate and reasonably ubiquitous positioning information without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.

Geosense is available for both x86 & x64 versions of Windows 7. You can download the setup file from the link mentioned below. More information is available at the Geosense download page.

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