Windows

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

Posted by on Feb 3, 2005 | 6 Comments

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 /?.

  • Confused

    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

    can you tell me how can i open my computer from run?

  • http://it2051229.awardspace.com it2051229

    yeahh can you tell us how can we open “my computer” from run?

  • http://www.lits.net Sean Greer

    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

    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

    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…