Add Management Options To The My Computer Shortcut Menu (Windows XP/2003)
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When you right click My Computer, a context menu will appear with the several different options. If you click Manage, the Computer Management console will appear where you can access various System Tools and manage storage, applications, and services.
You may find that you are often opening the Computer Management console this way to access the various System Tools such as Event Viewer, Device Manager, Disk Management, and so on. To speed things up slightly, you can add some of the consoles to the shortcut menu. This way to open a console such as Event Viewer, all you have to do is right click My Computer and select Event Viewer. You can accomplish this by opening the Command Prompt window and typing in the following:
reg add “HKCR\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Event Viewer\command” /VE /T REG_EXPAND_SZ /D “%SystemRoot%\system32\mmc.exe /s %SystemRoot%\system32\EventVWR.msc” /F
For more help with the ‘reg’ command line utility, type reg /?.

6 Comments
Confused
July 15th, 2007
at 7:46pm
I have XP and the Manage short-cut in the my computer right-click menu was corrupted somehow. I was wondering if there was a way to re-add it to the right-click menu?
ankur dhawan
July 28th, 2007
at 7:25am
can you tell me how can i open my computer from run?
it2051229
September 18th, 2007
at 4:59pm
yeahh can you tell us how can we open “my computer” from run?
Sean Greer
January 23rd, 2008
at 10:50am
Sure thing, easy as pie.
From the run menu just type “explorer” and hit “Enter”. If the Windows shell is currently running it will open a “My Computer” window, aka Windows Explorer. If the Windows shell is not running, it will first start the shell and you may have to type “explorer” and hit “Enter” again but it will open it.
Cheers!
robert kennedy
June 10th, 2008
at 8:34pm
Can you tell me why my friends computer freezes when you click “my Computer” in start.
However, you can right click open and it works.
Thank you
Bob
filth
August 31st, 2008
at 8:16am
Uh… or just press Windows Key + E, which brings up the Explorer shell, automatically focused on My Computer. So much faster than actually /typing/ stuff…