Description: Adding Engauge Digitizer to Windows context menu
Keywords: Engauge Digitizer, browser based documentation, online manual, context menu, windows

## Engauge Digitizer - Adding To Windows Explorer Context Menu

## Introduction

In Windows Explorer a simple right-click on an image file will bring up a context menu that lists some software applications. Clicking on one of those applications starts that application, and loads the image file.

Engauge Digitizer can be inserted into that context menu, where it is easily available for processing image file formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and XPM.

Frequent users of Engauge Digitizer will appreciate the speed of context menus.

## Steps

Follow these ten steps to add Engauge Digitizer to the Windows Explorer context menu:

1. Open up Windows Explorer
2. Select Tools / Folder Options / File Types
3. Select an image file type from the list of registered file types
4. Click on the Advanced button
5. Select the open action
6. Click on the Edit button
7. In the "Application used to perform action" field, enter the following line, being careful to include the quotation marks:

   c:\engauge\digitizer.exe -import "%1"

8. Click on the OK button to finish editing the open action
9. Click on the OK button to finish modifying the file type actions
10. Click on the OK button to finish modifying folder options, or select another image file type and repeat starting at step 4