How to Add Open With to Right-click Menu in Windows 10

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to add the Open with option to right-click menu in Windows 10. Some Windows 10 users are complaining about a strange bug within the context menu. It turns out that the Open with option has simply disappeared. It’s a shame because the option is important. It allows users to select the application they want to open a particular file.

But the good news is that there is a very simple solution to find this famous Open with option in the contextual menu. All you have to do is to go to the Windows Registry Editor and check the value of a specific key.
 

How to Add Open With to Right-click Menu in Windows 10

Step 1: Right-click on the Start button, select Run.
 

 

 
Step 2: Type regedit and press Enter to open the Registry Editor.
 

 
Step 3: After that, navigate to the following Registry key:

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

 
Step 4: Then create a new key Edit > New > Key and name it Open With (if and only if it does not exist).
 

 

 
Step 5: Then, inside this newly created or already present key, there should be a string value “(default)”. Change the string value to the following by double-clicking on it:

{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}

 
This should restore the Open with option in the right-click menu.