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I installed Cmder with the chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/Cmder

and I would like to have a shortcut in my context menu to open cmder in the current directory. I followed [the official wiki]:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellCmder]

@="Open Cmder Here"

"Icon"=""%CMDER_ROOT%\icons\cmder.ico",0"



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellCmdercommand]

@=""%CMDER_ROOT%\Cmder.exe" /START "%v""

(https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/wiki/Context-menu-integration) but even though the icon to start Cmder does show up in the context menu, it however throws an error in a message box saying:

Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

The path of the Cmder executable is in: C:toolsCmderCmder.exe

The environment variable seems to be fine (been set with setx CMDER_ROOT "C:toolsCmder"):

echo %cmder_root%

C:toolsCmder

I can't really figure out what's wrong here, any idea?

Use this REG file instead:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellCmder]

@="Open Cmder Here"

"Icon"=hex(2):22,00,25,00,43,00,4d,00,44,00,45,00,52,00,5f,00,52,00,4f,00,4f,

  00,54,00,25,00,5c,00,69,00,63,00,6f,00,6e,00,73,00,5c,00,63,00,6d,00,64,00,

  65,00,72,00,2e,00,69,00,63,00,6f,00,22,00,2c,00,30,00,00,00



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellCmdercommand]

@=hex(2):22,00,25,00,43,00,4d,00,44,00,45,00,52,00,5f,00,52,00,4f,00,4f,00,54,

  00,25,00,5c,00,43,00,6d,00,64,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,22,00,

  20,00,2f,00,53,00,54,00,41,00,52,00,54,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,76,00,22,00,00,

  00

If you do not want to use environment variable use this as registry file or batch file.
Let assume Cmder installation path is C:MyFiles. Change that path as your setup.

• Registry file (.reg):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellCmder]

@="Open Cmder Here"

"Icon"=""C:\MyFiles\icons\cmder.ico",0"



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellCmdercommand]

@="C:\MyFiles\cmder.exe /START "%v""

• Batch file (.bat):

reg add "HKCRDirectoryBackgroundshellCmder" /ve /d "Open Cmder Here" 

reg add "HKCRDirectoryBackgroundshellCmder" /v "Icon" /d "C:MyFilesiconscmder.ico,0" 

reg add "HKCRDirectoryBackgroundshellCmdercommand" /ve /d "C:MyFilescmder.exe /START "%v"" 

Command Options:

• 
  reg add command:

REG ADD KeyName [/v ValueName | /ve] [/t Type] [/s Separator] [/d Data] [/f] [/reg:32 | /reg:64] 

    /v       The value name, under the selected Key, to add.

    /ve      adds an empty value name (Default) for the key.

    /t       If omitted, REG_SZ is assumed.

    /d       The data to assign to the registry ValueName being added.

• 
  

  Cmder option:

  
  
  

  /START [start_path] Folder path to start in.

  
  


• 
  

  Shortcut option:

  
  
  

  %v For verbs that are none implies all. If there is no parameter passed this is the working directory.