Add item to right-click menu in Win7

For the longest time, I had Play with MPC in my right-click context menu in Windows 7 x64 Home Premium, and it would open the file in Media Player Classic. Naturally, it was for opening media files (music, videos like AVI, MKV, etc). Well, I had some codec issues, and removed my codec pack, and installed a 64bit codec pack from a different developer. I had the KLite Mega Pack, removed it, installed the 64bit version of Win7Codec Pack by Shark007. When I removed the KLite pack, it took Media Player Classic with it. So I downloaded the 64bit version of Media Player Classic Home Cinema but it didn't seem to 'like' all video files, and would stutter occasionally on videos that previously played fine. So I removed it, and downloaded the regular ol' 32bit version of Media Player Classic for WinXP. It doesn't have an installer, so I copied it to my root directory, and added it to my right-click "Open With >" menu. Having to use the "Open With >" menu is not a big deal, but it's an extra step, and I just got really accustomed to having "Play with MPC" at the top of the right click menu when clicking on video files; I didn't have to use the "Open With >" like I do now. I did some Googling for "add items to context menu" and similar things, but found nothing that I would call "easy", and it seems that several different sites use many different methods that access many different registry keys.... so.... is there an easy way to add something to the right click menu in 64bit Win7?

THANKS!

(BTW- the original 32bit MPC for XP works perfectly with the videos that stuttered in the 64bit version of MPC-Home Cinema; an interesting side note: if you have a codec pack installed, you can play just about ANY media file using the excellent freeware app Universal Viewer. It will play videos and music, plus opens most text files, picture files, PDFs, HTML files, you name it! I've actually been using Universal Viewer as my main video player for the past few days 'cuz I was having these issues with different media players, and it worked perfectly, and it's right there in my right click menu!)

 

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Problem solved. A bit more Googling got me hooked up with a nifty freeware app called ContextEdit. It's an old app (from 2001) but it works fine with Win7 x64 as long as you use "Run As Administrator". Install it, highlight the first selection in the left column, it's named "* All files, regardless of extension" (highlighted in blue in the screen shot below), then click "New" (in the red box), then enter the appropriate info, it's VERY self-explanatory (if I didn't know what a feature was, I left it alone). When I was done, I had "Play with Media Player Classic" listed in the box in the right-hand section of ContextEdit (also highlighted blue in the screen shot). I exited the program, right clicked on a movie, and BAM! there it was.... I clicked it, and the movie played in Media Player Classic! I couldn't be happier! :-D I found this app earlier, but figured "it's almost 10 years old, it's written for WinNT and 2000, it won't work right on a 64bit Windows 7". I was wrong. Now I can do all sorts of fun stuff with different extensions and what they can be opened with. TOO COOL!!!!

(BTW- I also found this thread archived here at MG, but I tried ContextEdit before I read that thread, and it turns out that an older version of ContextEdit is linked to in that thread too...)