How to Add an item “Copy the Content” in right-click context menu
What do you do when copying the content of a file? No doubt, most of the users double click on the file to open with the text editor, select all the content then copy the selected area by selecting right-click > Copy or pressing the CTRL + C key. But here is an shortcut way that allows you to copy the whole content of the file from the right click context menu. Just you’ll have to apply the following registry tweak. It will add an item “Copy the content” to the right-click context menu. Follow the following steps.
- Open registry editor by typing “regedit” at the “Run” dialogue box (Press Win key + R).
- Navigate to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTtxtfileshell- You can see there are some actions under “Shell” by expanding the key.
- Right click on Shell and select New > Key. Give the name of the key as“copythecontent”.
- Select the newly created key > Double click on “Default” at the right pane > Put any thing meaningful like “Copy the Content” (that will be displayed at the context menu).
- Similarly create another key under “copythecontent” and name it as “command”.
- Select the “command” key. Double click on “Default” at the right pane.
- Put the following command in the Value data field.
cmd /c clip < "%1"You are done. Now right click on any text file then select “Copy the Content” to copy the content of the text file and you can paste the content in any application.
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