Notepad++ not shown in Explorer context menu

I recently installed Notepad++ on 2 PCs, and noticed that on one of them the “Edit with Notepad++” context menu entry was missing in Explorer.

After some digging I found that Notepad++ and SciTE register the same CLSID under

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers.

Steps to register Notepad++ in the context menu:

Works

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Stephen Says:
November 13, 2009 at 22:30 | Reply
What about if I don’t have SciTE installed? I just installed Notepad++ on a clean Windows 7 install and I can’t get the context menu option to show up. Any ideas?
- Eric Says:
  November 15, 2009 at 2:14 | Reply
  http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-open-with-notepad-to-the-context-menu-for-all-files/
  
  Just follow the instructions but replace “notepad.exe %1″ with “[insert notepad++.exe location here] %1″
Programmator Says:
November 22, 2009 at 15:40 | Reply
In 64 bits OS (Vista or Seven), the context menu fonctionnality provided by the notepad ++ setup doesn’t work. Just read this post to bypass the issue :
http://blog.donnfelker.com/post/Notepad2b2b-Shortcuts-Vista-64bit-Update.aspx

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