Hi all I need help understanding just how you go about adding command functionality to winXP. Ultimately what I want to do is script a function that performs a simple text replacement on strings contained in an ascii file. Easy. But I want this to be available to the user via a right click menu option. Can anyone suggest a good way to A, implement the actual function and B imbed it into XPs architecture? Cheers, Jan.

Well, I don't know if this will actually work the way you need it to, but I'm sure that you can tweak some things to make it work. And by the way, I'm guessing that you mean the context menu when you right click on the desktop... You will need to modify the registry to do this, and to actually redistribute the registry, you have to export the registry key. Anyways, here's the link... http://registryeditor.blogspot.com/... Hope this helps! =] If you give up, might as well give up everything in life.

Hey Impulse Thanks! That really helped. I've worked out how to add the command to the context menu and got hold of a command line text replacer which allows me to alter the text of a specific file via something like: ssr 0 "old_text" "new_text" c:\fileToChange.txt now my only problem is working out how to pass the details of the file I right click on to the command. So instead of "c:\fileToChange.txt" i get the address and filename of the file i click on each time.

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