Question : Cannot get Windows to operate on multiple files with right click context menu.

I have a VB script that accepts a file path in the command line parameter. I have created a shell context sensitive menu to launch it by adding the following registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/shell/Menu Caption/command

with the default value set to:

wscript.exe "C:\full\path\to\vbscript.vbs" "%1"

It works when only one file is selected. Nothing happens when two or more files are selected. While I don't think it is possible to have all selected files passed to the script in one shot, this thread discusses the fact that the files should at least be passed one at a time to successive executions of the script:

Title: Executing VBscript with a right click context menu
Link: http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26468

But I can't even get that to happen.

Any ideas?

Kevin

Answer : Cannot get Windows to operate on multiple files with right click context menu.

The problem was that there was another application with a context menu entry that was interfering. The diagnostic steps were discovered here:

Title: Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
Link: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

I used the manual process: After backing up the registry section HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers, I proceeded to delete each sub key until the problem went away. I restored the section and then deleted the problem key and removed the program.

Kevin