explorer right click context menu with python?

Question

I'm wondering how to go about adding a menu item to explorers right click context menu. For instance, when I right click on a file I get things like winrars "Add to archive" I want something like that and I'm wondering how to do it with python.

Answer 1

Adding Entries to the Standard Context Menu

_winreg - Windows registry access

Answer 2

To Add more items to explorer right click menu, you just need to add some registry keys.

For example, take a look at this site, there is some examples and some tools.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm