[whs]

I have Gimp on my Vista and my Windows7 machines. In Vista, when I right click on any picture, I get Edit with Gimp in my right click menu. Not so on Windows7 - except if the file is a .gif, but not for .jpeg, .png, etc. I assume that I missed to check some box during the installation. But I wanted to verify that first before I reinstalled it. Your guidance would be appreciated.

[Leo in NJ]

You need to set that in Windows (Vista anyway). Use Windows explorer to find a file of the right type, right click on it, select Edit, then find Gimp exe file if it's not conveniently listed. Check the "Always use this program box" if you want, and go. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but I think that's the way.

[whs]

Hi Leo, Thanks for the reply. But I think you talk about something different like "Always Open With". But that is not what I want. I want the "Edit with Gimp" in the right click context menu.

[PhotoComix]

i don't have yet 7 ..maybe something is changed for the context menu
Anyway did you use the default 7 image Viewer or a dedicated program to browse imagine files?

With dedicated viewer you may have a "open with" voice in the viewer file menu..pointing that to gimp.exe you may open the same image in gimp.

PS not sure if all viewer have that option Xnview has it

[Leo in NJ]

Sorry, I don' know anything about Version 7. I've got "Edit with Gimp" in my (Vista) context menu, but don't remember exactly how I got it; all I can remember, I described above.

Sorry.

There are context menu editors (google those words (without the final "s")) which may allow you to enter it manually.

[PhotoComix]

For XP there are several utilities that may add/remove item from the context menu, i suppose should be something for vista too

[whs]

Thanks guys - problem solved. It is my FastStone Image Viewer that gets into the way. The "open with" route works. Thanks GT Manager.

[kjhosein]

Hi guys,

I had the exact same problem and a search led me to this thread. It gave me an idea to test out and sure enough it worked.

I'm running Windows XP and just installed GIMP 2.6.8. I previously had 2.x.x version and uninstalled it prior to installing the latest. But I lost my valuable "Edit with GIMP" context menus. Here's how I got them back:

1. From an Explorer window, go to Tools-> Folder Options

2. Go to the File Types tab

3. Select the file extension (ex: JPG) that you want the "Edit with GIMP" context menu to appear for

4. Click the Advanced button

5. Click the New button

6a. Enter "Edit with the GIMP" for the Action (or whatever text you want) and browse to the GIMP exe for the Application Used to Perform Action.

6b. For this to work with filenames containing spaces, after you select the application in step 6a, enter "%1" after the path to the app executable. [Yes, include the quotes - that's what encapsulates the spaces in the filename.]

7. Ok out of everything and test.

8. Repeat steps 1 thru 7 for each file type you want to get the context menu on (ex: GIF, PNG, BMP, JPG)

I'm attaching an image of what the series of windows and dialog boxes should look like at step 6:



Cheers!

_KJH

[Ghis1964]

whs said:

I have Gimp on my Vista and my Windows7 machines. In Vista, when I right click on any picture, I get Edit with Gimp in my right click menu. Not so on Windows7 - except if the file is a .gif, but not for .jpeg, .png, etc. I assume that I missed to check some box during the installation. But I wanted to verify that first before I reinstalled it. Your guidance would be appreciated.

I was searching for this when I saw your post. Maybe you have solve this already, but anyway;) I found how just few pages later. Take any text editor you have, paste that text below and save it as .reg not .txt . (Hopefuly you work in windows with all extensions display as default in folder view;) After saving it (anywhere you like) click the reg file as administrator, and click yes to the prompts. You don't even have to restart, "Edit with Gimp" will appear in your context-menu. This key is for all user in vista (thats why I made it for the root)



Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Edit with Gimp]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Edit with Gimp\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\GIMP-2.0\\bin\\gimp-2.6.exe\" \"%1\""



Note; mine is gimp-2.6.exe, rename this to match the version you have. Also, this is the path it has
in my drive;
C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\gimp-2.6.exe

if you have to, rename all to match. If there's more directories to yours path, add them and don't forget the double back-slash as shown above.


Peace
Ghis

edit;
And I just found this little app; http://defaultprogramseditor.com/
I wanna see if I can make an "Copy and send to Gimp" context-menu element with it, or anything;)

[Bucic]

The registry file posted just above will add "Edit with gimp" to EVERY file's context menu e.g including Word doc files!

[PhotoComix]

Luckily is just a option ... 8)

just above there is a longer method but with effect limited just to the file formats you wish

[Bucic]

I've fixed it removing GIMP from its location and running registry cleaner afterwards. Then I "reinstalled" it and did the rest with the Default Programs Editor.

I don't have time for this but I'd like to fiddle with some program which allows to edit the section of context menu which is common to all files e.g. Open With. There's a lot of clutter in windows context menus and Windows 7 is not better in that area.

[lthgimp]

I registered just so I could post this solution that worked for me on Windows 7 (also mentioned above in the fine print by Ghis1964--THANKS!):

Use "Default Programs Editor". http://defaultprogramseditor.com

Easy as can be--no registry editing, no reinstalling Gimp--just ran the program and it worked. I even got to choose to include the Gimp icon with it. See the screenshot below. The girl makes this post even more helpful, no?



By the way, I think it was installing Picasa that killed the "Edit with Gimp" in the first place.

[intocake]

Thank you lthgimp!!!

I was having this problem too. "Default Programs Editor" worked like a charm.

My PNGs still had the "Edit in Gimp" option. But, I wanted this for my JPGs and GIFS again. In the above program, I just went to "File Type Settings" -> "Context Menu" -> then searched ".png". Double clicked that, and copied all of the info to to use for JPGs and GIFs (you don't need to do this though if you just know the Program Path).

It's also nice to add the little Gimp Icon too. :D