Add Management Options To The My Computer Shortcut Menu (Windows XP/2003)

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 /?.