I hope topposting is ok in here.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Creating a FriendlyAppName worked
perfectly and on my first try too. I really appreciate your response
and advice.

cmsix


"Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@XOX.mvps.org> wrote in message
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> You can override the defaults.
>
> To register the default procedure, place the same registry keys you
> created for your application's ProgID under the application's subkey
> of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications . You can also include a
> FriendlyAppName value to provide the system with a friendly name for
> your application. The application's friendly name may also be
> extracted from its executable file, but only if the FriendlyAppName
> value is absent. The following registry fragment shows a sample
> default procedure for MyProgram.exe that defines a friendly name and
> several shortcut menu items. The command strings include the /a flag
> to notify the application that it is opening an arbitrary file
> class. If you include a DefaultIcon subkey, you should use a generic
> icon.
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
> Applications
> MyProgram.exe
> shell
> open
> FriendlyAppName= Friendly Name
>
> MSDN Library: Extending Shortcut Menus
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ng/context.asp
>
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>
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> Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP Shell/User
>
> Windows XP Troubleshooting
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>
>
> "cmsix" <cmsix@cmsix.com> wrote in message
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>>I have a notepad replacement editor with an annoyingly long Friendly
>>name. When I try to access it via the "open with" right click option
>>it stretches the menu half way across the display.
>>
>> The only place I find this very unfriendly friendly name in the
>> registry is as an entry in the MUICache. If I edit it to something
>> shorter it "heals" itself withing a few minutes.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestion that might help.
>>
>> I've searched through the actual program with Ultra Edit but I
>> don't find the string in the .exe file. There's not a real
>> installation for the program so I can't figure out where the
>> friendly name is coming from.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> cmsix
>