XP & Vista: Add Calculator to Right-Click of My Computer

October 5th, 2007

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If you have the My Computer (or Computer if you are running Vista) icon on your desktop, you can add the Calculator to the context (Right-Click) menu for much easier access.  You can do this by creating a simple reg file and merging it to the Windows registry, here’s how:

  1. Open up Notepad (or right-click the desktop, mouseover New and select Text Document).
  2. Select and copy the following:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    3. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\
    CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Calculator]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\
    {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Calculator\command]
    @=”calc.exe”

  3. Paste it into the new text file.
  4. Save the text file and rename it to for example, XP_Calculator_MyComputer_Context.reg.It should look like this:ds_mycomputer_calc3 
  5. Right-click the newly created reg file and select Merge.  A prompt will appear verifying that you want to add the information from the reg file to the registry, click Yes.ds_mycomputer_calc4
Posted by shamanstears Filed in Tweaking, Windows XP

11 Responses to “XP & Vista: Add Calculator to Right-Click of My Computer”

  1. genenio Says:
    October 6th, 2007 at 9:44 am

    Didn’t work for me in Vista. A desktop shortcut would work just as well, I suppose.

  2. shamanstears Says:
    October 6th, 2007 at 10:48 am

    @geneio Nice catch. I had tried it on XP and Windows Server 2008. Since it worked on 2008, I made the rather poor assumption that it would also work on Vista. I’ll get back to the drawing board to find a Vista solution.

  3. emhodew Says:
    October 7th, 2007 at 6:18 am

    Why not just put a shortcut in the quick launch bar. It is available from any window.

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  8. shahram Says:
    April 4th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    Hi
    Dear Sir / Lady
    Help me please that i can install a software for calculator desktop of my PC …..because it was disappeared .
    thanks
    your sincerely
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  9. shahram Says:
    April 4th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

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  10. shahram Says:
    April 4th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

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  11. maribel Says:
    April 23rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    how do i add a calculator on my desktop

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